Samsung is an industry leader when it comes to Android OS and security updates. There are only a few Android manufacturers that can match the four years of Android OS and five years of security updates that it provides. Never one to rest on its laurels, the company is now actively considering to expand the […]

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Samsung is an industry leader when it comes to Android OS and security updates. There are only a few Android manufacturers that can match the four years of Android OS and five years of security updates that it provides. Never one to rest on its laurels, the company is now actively considering to expand the […]

  • Gunpachi@lemmings.worldEnglish
    291·
    1 year ago

    They have a ton of phone models, it’s gonna be difficult task for them to maintain all of them beyond 5 years.

    The 5+ years updates could be just for their flagship/premium line up.

    • sheogorath@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      1 year ago

      Yep, AFAIK their current policy of 4 years upgrade only covers devices that use One UI (the lower end models uses One UI Core which have some features stripped). So that means only A5x and up devices.

      • limerod@reddthat.comMEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        That’s not been true for a while. The A3x series, the latest M34 and starting from A24, A2x series also enjoy that same promise as more expensive devices

  • Nemo Wuming@lemmy.worldEnglish
    204·
    1 year ago

    Samsung is an industry leader when it comes to Android OS and security updates.

    Great on them for considering doing the right thing, but they are not much of a leader if they only react after Google announced 7 years of support for the Pixel 8 😂

    … Unless they top that with 12 years…

    • justalittleguy@lemdro.idEnglish
      41·
      1 year ago

      Samsung was the leader. Google had to respond after years of being behind someone that doesn’t even work directly on the OS. Doesn’t stop Samsung being a leader if they change and go even farther.

      • zeroxxx@lemmy.my.idEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        And to think Google only supports few models and Samsung dozens or so.

        Not even comparable.

    • ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.worldEnglish
      85·
      1 year ago

      Google hasn’t actually done the 7 years of support yet. If they were serious about long term support it wouldn’t have been just an announcement. They would be rolling out Android 14 to all the pixel devices from 7 years ago.

        • unique_hemp@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          Sure, but it’s nicer that I would stop using my phone because it’s not worth repairing anymore rather than because it’s not supported.

        • ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          1 year ago

          This doesn’t stop Google supporting the older Qualcomm phones. It just means they need to be responsible for the drivers, or contract Qualcomm to do it (which will cost Google extra).

            • Markaos@lemmy.oneEnglish
              2·
              1 year ago

              Fairphone doesn’t seem to care much about security (they use public keys for signing their OS afterall!), so they may be fine with those compromises.

              Any source for that claim? Digital signing works with key pairs - a private one for signing and a public one for verifying that something was signed by the corresponding private key. So I take it you’re saying they publish the private keys used for signing somewhere?

      • justalittleguy@lemdro.idEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        That literally doesn’t make any sense. When Samsung announced it was going to 5 years it didn’t update all the stuff in the past. It’s a new thing starting with the new devices. They might give a little extension to devices still getting updates, but devices that already stopped getting updates are likely to have been upgraded from already and possibly harder to continue supporting.