Android Updates

In other words, according to the current cycle, they will get 4 years of Android OS updates and 5 years of monthly security updates. Impressive, when you consider that Google’s own Pixel devices get only 3 major software updates. In the last two years, Samsung has stepped up the game with respect to Android updates. They have gotten faster at it than any other brand besides Google. And in the case of monthly security updates, sometimes they have been faster on the draw than Google....

If you own any one of Pixel 3, 3 XL, 3a, 4, 4a, 4a (5G), 5, or 5a with 5G, when will your device get its last due major Android update? The answer is, three years after the release date. Google has released an updated Android update timetable for Pixel devices. To make it easy for you, we have published the dates in the table below. Dates of the last Android updates for Pixel 3 to 5a with 5G Dates of the last Android updates for Pixel 3 to 5a with 5G...

While Nokia adopted and ran with the Android One vision, software updates to their smartphones have been anything but speedy. Still, they got it done better than other brands. Last year, OnePlus gave a good showing of itself and pushed out Android updates to its phones quite fast. We were expecting a showdown between Nokia and OnePlus this year. We were wrong. Samsung has taken the winds out of the sails of both Nokia and OnePlus and have successfully updated a long list of their phone models to Android 11 in the last few months....