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Except, of course, getting your hands on a phone that has Oreo. For instance, the Galaxy S8 is the hottest new thing on the market right now, and it launched w
by AdmiralAsshat 9y ago
Except, of course, getting your hands on a phone that has Oreo.
For instance, the Galaxy S8 is the hottest new thing on the market right now, and it launched with Nougat. It will probably be six months to a year before Samsung pushes an Oreo update to it, if at all.
- moosingin3space 9y agoSamsung actually has a decent track record of updating their software -- my family's Galaxy S5s on T-Mobile (purchased 2014) are actually still receiving security updates, despite being on Marshmallow API level.
- pjmlp 9y agoOnly on the S series, the other ones is a guessing game.
- abdulmuhaimin 9y agowell, he did use an S8 as an example. Honestly though, I think all of the company use the same strategy. Only the flagship line is the one getting extended support for update
- 0xFFC 9y agoYou kidding me right? They literally didn't update note tablets once!
- moosingin3space 9y agoThere was an implied "in my experience" on that. My family has used S-series devices, and those have generally gotten prompt security updates.
- dep_b 9y agoDo those security updates also include kernel vulnerabilities?
- kevin_thibedeau 9y agoLineageOS is the cure to all ills.
- sannee 9y agoIt doesn't help with things like firmware vulnerabilities (without some extensive reverse engineering). I can get LineageOS on my Nexus 5 just fine, but it doesn't have broadpwn fixed. (note that I wasn't able to actually replicate broadpwn on Nexus 5, if anyone was, some info would be appreciated)