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Is there a reason for them not upgrading Android on Nexus? Disappointing news since I bought mine a mere 2 years ago.
by ilove_banh_mi 8y ago
Is there a reason for them not upgrading Android on Nexus? Disappointing news since I bought mine a mere 2 years ago.
- izacus 8y agoThe major reason (according to the dev podcast) is that SoC vendors simply drop support and don't update drivers for new Android versions. This pretty much blocks any kind of updates since mobile drivers are all closed binary blobs. Before 8.0 Android driver layer wasn't separate from other OS layer so they couldn't upgrade Android separately.