[Philips, Sony, TCL Android TV] AndroidPurity:
I got mine about 4 days ago on my 2015 XBR-49X830C. I went ahead and applied the update. I didn't realize it was nougat until after the update. Figured it was another security patch. I was extremely excited to see the update after it was done. However after a few days I am slightly regretting jumping on this upgrade early but still loving it.

Here is the take aways...

1.) My TV and many others have complained about lots of performance issues with Android TV on Sony TV's. I have even seen a reviewer on Amazon of a brand new 2017 $2,999+ Sony TV owner complaining about it. Such as experiencing hesitations navigating the OS, dropped frames, brief freezing, slowness, and so on.

Let me tell you I am soooo happy to report that 95% of those performance issues are gone with nougat. This update has just made the TV amazing. The OS operates almost as smooth as butter now. If it's near butter smooth on a older 2015 TV processor I am sure the new ones are pure butter smooth.

2.) I love the OS redesign too. I am not so.much a dark OS kind of person. So I like how a lot of the pop ups are white instead of grey now. Just a personal preference.

3.) The redesigned settings menu and new options there are great. However I noticed "running apps" is GONE now!!! It's not even in developer options like it is on Android for phones. So I am not happy about that change because I would commonly go in there to kill out back ground apps in cache to free some memory. It can still be done but now a longer processor going to each individual app to click stop. But doesn't show how much RAM it's using up anymore.

4.) The "task switching" feature added is basically like recent apps. Really great feature that was handy. It might make up for my issue of the running apps feature being gone in most cases.

5.) It sucks picture in picture was only given to the higher end D series. Does anyone know the actual reason behind this? From what I saw both the C series and D series have the same 4K X-Reality Processor. So it doesn't seem to be any technical reason behind it other than they wanted those who paid the premium to only have the feature.

6.) Can now add MULTIPLE Google accounts. Great additional feature! Even though I have 2 Google accounts I will likely never use it since my second account is used mostly only for a second email and second drive storage. Although great for families who want to log in to see their YouTube subscriptions or their Google Play Movies list, ect.

7.) I have experienced only 1 bug so far and it's a pretty big annoying one. I'm having an issue with connecting to WiFi on this new version. After I connect to WiFi using password it connects and stays connected fine, then use the TV, then turn it off for a while, come back later or next day, turn TV on and realize the WiFi is disconnected and not reconnecting automatically. Even when selecting the network manual it fails to connect to same WiFi again.

I was able to get it to connect by selecting forget the network, then entering the password again. However next time that did not even work. So I did a full reboot of the TV (holding down power button) and that fixed it. It still keeps happening though after turning the off and turning it back on later. Since I am able to reconnect by doing a full reboot it's more of just a major nusiance.

I might try to do a full reset to see of that helps. Is anyone else having this WiFi issue with nougat update on Sony TV's?

All in all this update just made this TV 10 times better. As long as they fix the WiFi bug and keeping giving this thing at least security updates for at least another 2 years, then I will be a very happy consumer. My next smart TV will definitely be Sony with Android TV again.