Android 16 could launch sooner than you’d expect

Google releases a new version of Android each year, and since 2013 the releases have all come between August and November. That, however, might be set to change with Android 16.

While Android 15 is only expected to start rolling out to supported Pixels on October 15, Google seems to already be thinking about releasing Android 16 much sooner than usual – at some point in the second quarter of next year in fact, so between April and June.

That would be a pretty significant shift in strategy, but then again Google has this year similarly switched its hardware announcement from the…