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Blaze@reddthat.com to Android@lemdro.idEnglish · 1 year ago

Prominent Android manufacturers commit to supporting phone software for 7 years

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Prominent Android manufacturers commit to supporting phone software for 7 years

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Blaze@reddthat.com to Android@lemdro.idEnglish · 1 year ago
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Samsung Extends Android and Security Updates to 7 Years
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Samsung phones now come backed with seven years' worth of security updates and seven generations of OS upgrades.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/9647496

Hopefully a blow to planned obsolescence

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    Samsung committed to seven years before Google and look at the length of support Apple were offering. Maybe we have different definitions of innovation.

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      Maybe I’m out of the loop when did Samsung commit? Isn’t the article about it happening now?

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        Sorry, I remembered incorrectly and thus my information was wrong. They offered four years back when Google was only offering two

        https://www.sammobile.com/news/galaxy-phone-seven-years-security-updates/

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          They didn’t, Google are the first to do three years of OS updates and security patches with the Pixel 2 and extended that to the first gen Pixel. Samsung were doing two OS updates until they promised they would do 3 OS updates at the Note20 launch and extended it to the S10 and other models. You are correct that they upgraded that to four with the S21 before Google made the jump from 3 to 7.

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