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Android 8.0 is not supported anymore, and it suffers from very serious security vulnerabilities. Versions up to 8.0 constitute around 20% of the phones (as of
by pizza234 5y ago
Android 8.0 is not supported anymore, and it suffers from very serious security vulnerabilities.
Versions up to 8.0 constitute around 20% of the phones (as of June 2021¹), which creates a significant amount of e-waste, particularly embarrassing when considering phones like the Nexus 5x, which is a perfectly usable model.
[¹] https://www.statista.com/statistics/921152/mobile-android-version-share-worldwide/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/921152/mobile-android-ve...
- gjsman-1000 5y agoI'm talking mainly about the OG article (which discontinues 2.3 and earlier from Google Services), not Android's terrible long-term support compared to iOS which wholly deserves criticism. But they can still access Google.
- nyanpasu64 5y agoThe Nexus 5X would be a perfectly usable model, but some fail over time due to a SOC with defective "big" CPU cores (IIRC).