A Sony Xperia XZ1 smartphone has surfaced online running the latest build of the Android 9 Pie Operating System. Interestingly, the appearance coincides with Sony reportedly sending out the Android build with October 1 2018 Security Patch to Xperia XZ Premium, Xperia XZ1 and Xperia XZ1 Compact smartphones.
Sony has been actively developing and finalizing the latest Android 9 Pie OS for several of its smartphones. It seems the rollout has already begun. However, several users haven’t received any notification even after attempting to manually initiate the update process. It now seems the update process is quite gradual.
Only a few Sony smartphone users have received the notification to update. Hence it seems Sony is cautiously deploying the update to a select few regions and model variants. It is quite likely that Sony could widen the net and send out updates to a larger user base shortly after successful deployment and installation on these select devices. Incidentally, Sony Mobile is sending out the update via the standard OTA (Over The Air) route.
