During a press conference at Slovakia, Sony Corp., revealed that it’s newest smartphones in the market, Xperia XZ and Xperia X Performance will be the first companies smartphone to recive Google’s latest OS, Android 7.0 Nougat update around October.
Xperia X and Xperia X Compact will be receiving the update around November while the Xperia Z5 series, Xperia Z3+ and Xperia Z4 Tablet will be getting the update around December, as per a company slide, while the last batch to receive the update will be Xperia XA and Xperia XA Ultra, early 2017.
The list of devices mentioned at the press conference includes all devices that were listed by the company earlier. It should be noted that only these devices from Sony will be getting the Android 7.0 Nougat update.
Some of the phones that the company left out include; Xperia E5 which was launched early this year in May, Xperia Z4 and Xperia Z4v which were also released in May of 2015.
source: Mojandroid
And that my friend is why I bought a z5. Cheap due to being 2015 but still upgradeworthy to nougat (at least).
I expect it to be abandoned in 2017 or not to make the one after nougat.
Then I will switch to Cyanogenmod.