• Swintoodles@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    I really should get a new phone… didn’t realize they drop old OSes so fast from security patches lol.

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      1 year ago

      When buying a new phone, you could pick one that garantees 4-5 years of security updates.

      Android update policy by top manufacturers for their flagships

      Fairphone 4 has an incredible 5-year warranty, aims for 6 years of updates

      Be aware of difference between security updates and features updates. For instance Fairphone 3 has Android 11 with regular security updates, I personally think that’s good since it provides stability and security, and the phone works perfectly fine. Some prefer getting new features faster, but feature updates may be bumpier.

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        1 year ago

        Take this with a grane of salt, garentee update doesn’t garentee “speedy” update. OnePlus is notorious for this: their older phone stop receive meaningful update after at most a year. The update significantly lag behind that of google, despite their promise of long term support.

        AFAIK google pushes update to supported phone at the same time. I don’t know about Samsung.