Android Oreo will be released in stages, depending on carrier and country, and Google has been working with Essential, General Mobile, HMD Global Home of Nokia, Huawei, HTC, Kyocera, LG, Motorola, Samsung, Sharp, and Sony to launch new devices with Android 8.0.
The slight delay may be because of Project Treble, a re-engineering of Androids architecture that aims to make it easier for carriers and hardware makers to update to the latest version of Android. Treble, which will ship with Android Oreo, essentially separates the code thats specific to a specific phone model, and the code that's specific to Android.
That easily-updateable Android layer means that phone makers wont have to spend as much time or resources making Android updates compatible with their devices, which is a big problem for many non-Google hardware manufacturers who are often slow to ship updates to their users, like Samsung.
In the future, Burke hopes expensive flagship phones, like Samsung's Galaxy, will see updates closer to Googles initial announcement and budget phones will actually update to bigger dessert releases at all.
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