Android 7 Nougat is the operating system that has been until the most recent from Google. Now that the Android O Beta is already available, all the news that we are talking about will be those of this new version. And one of the characteristics of the new version is that it will be faster.
Android O faster than Android 7 Nougat
Android O will be noticeably faster than Android 7 Nougat. The data affirms that mobiles with Android O will start twice as fast as smartphones with Android 7 Nougat. This would be due to the optimization made with the new operating system, which is capable of running the entire system faster than the previous version of Android. Apparently, it would also be able to offer faster application performance.
This would lead us to the fact that smartphones could achieve superior performance with Android O. At the same time, it will make it less useful that mobile phones have increasingly better processors or RAM with more capacity. In fact, Google wants one of the keys of Android O to be the one that can run the operating system on very basic smartphones. Thanks to this, it will launch next year the Android Go platform for mobiles with very basic technical characteristics. But this is not only relevant for these inexpensive mobiles, but also for high-end smartphones, since it will not be necessary for the smartphones to be of such a high level so that they can have a good operation.
Of course, these data that Google has published are from your Google Pixel smartphone. We can assume that non-Google mobiles will not have such a relevant optimization.
Still, it is key to competing with iOS, which has always been an operating system capable of running just as fast or even faster with lower-tier components.