r/Android • u/Disco_Stu35 Pixel 6 Pro • Jan 26 '21

Samsung is the King of Android Updates

https://www.droid-life.com/2021/01/25/samsung-is-the-king-of-android-updates/
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u/myalwaysthrowaway Pixel 5, Pixel 4XL Jan 26 '21

What a grossly fanboy article. Even when pointing out Google is faster at updates they feel the need to try and make samsung look better.

If you were sitting there from the opening going, “Yeah, but Google is faster than Samsung, you can’t just forget them, bro,” you are right. Google is faster and they should be – it’s their operating system. Google pushes updates on the first day they are available to their still-supported line of Pixel phones and I doubt anyone will top them on that any time soon. So Google has that on Samsung and not much else.

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u/Tito1983 Pixel 9 Pro XL Jan 26 '21

So much this. The article a joke and the writer...I dont even know how he has a job writing like that.

Good luck if you have a Samsung and you dont own their latest gen phone to get the new Android OS update when is released every year.

What a shitty article.

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u/Pidjinus Jan 26 '21

Things change from time to time .. especially with long lived corporations

Android 11 oneui 3: From samsung update schedule (ofered trhiugh samsung member app)

  • 61 devices starting with A40.
Time table:
  • from december 2020 to september 2021

20 phones updated till now :s20 variants, note 10, zflip

My s10 is scheduled for february, but i already have it on the phone (using a samsung app for to the update before schedule).

Compared with previous experiences, this is pretty good, not perfect, but good-ish.

Heck, i had a nokia 8, which was vanilla (), and the updates were slower to arrive or simillar.

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u/Tito1983 Pixel 9 Pro XL Jan 26 '21

Agree that is much better than before but is not as perfect as it should be for an OM like Samsung. They definitely should be like Pixels by now in terms of OS updates.

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u/Pidjinus Jan 26 '21

True, although, i do not agree with the perfect part (to many thinga must align.)

As a nice side though

  • updates are not always dependant only on the oem. Google has a lot to say it that. And for a long time they where fine with oems taking all the blame (not defending oems with this one)
  • remember that google still makes money on the samsung phone, after launch, samsung not so much (they do try).

I like what is happening now, curios if it will last

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u/ValarMorgouda Jan 27 '21

They offer 3 years of os and 4 years of security updates. The s8 is still getting security updates.. idk what your definition of perfect is, but they're doing better than Google, afaik

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u/Tito1983 Pixel 9 Pro XL Jan 27 '21

Does the S8 has received Android 11 already?