It`s complicated.
Android 12 — or `Snow Cone` if you prefer — officially launched October 4. But good luck finding an official update on any existing phones, outside of public beta builds for Samsung and OnePlus devices. So instead, Google`s official announcement of Android 12`s release to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) states:
Keep an eye out for Android 12 coming to a device near you, starting with Pixel in the next few weeks, and Samsung Galaxy, OnePlus, Oppo, Realme, Tecno, Vivo, and Xiaomi devices later this year.
It`s highly unusual for the open-source release of a new version of Android to not be accompanied by official updates for Google`s phones. Even before the Pixel series, Nexus phones were guaranteed day-one updates when a new version dropped. So what`s going on here? Is Android 12 really finished and ready to go, or is Google pulling a fast one?
The Android bits are done, but the Pixel bits aren`t.
To answer this, we need to unpick the Android...
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