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Opinion: Samsung is doing a fantastic job with software updates

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With the launching of a smartphone, its maker assures you to provide better after-sales services, but not every smartphone maker keeps its promise. One of them is Chinese smartphone maker OnePlus, who’ve forgotten its claims for best ever customer service.

A few days ago, OnePlus has informed the users of its Nord lineup smartphones users that they will get “only one major” Android upgrade. This move is surely frustrating for most of the consumers of OnePlus.

Regular software updates are too much important for our smartphones because they bring not only security patches but also includes new or enhanced features or better compatibility with different devices or applications. They can also improve the stability of your software, and remove outdated features.

While monthly software update keeps the user’s data and privacy safe from different threats, major updates improve the overall device experience and performance with the latest features and enhancements.

As a proud consumer of Samsung’s smartphones, I can confirm that Samsung is the best ever service provider among all the smartphone makers across the globe. Even, Samsung is one step forward from the stock Android because, at the end of October, it has started providing November 2020 security patch for its second-gen foldable devices.

Furthermore, this month, Samsung has gone multiple times ahead of Google toward the testing terms of monthly security patches.

In detail, nowadays, Samsung is running the beta testing of the latest version of its massive custom skin, One UI. Its latest flagship phones of S and Note lineup, Galaxy S20, and Note 20 series smartphones experiencing the beta testing of Android 11 based One UI 3.0. A few days ago, the Galaxy S20 devices have received the December 2020 security patch with the One UI 3.0 beta build.

It shows that Samsung follows its own software upgrading procedure to fix the bugs and CVEs before Google does for stock Android.

Read in detail: Samsung just released December 2020 security patch, 16 days ahead of next month

Adding to this, Samsung provides two years of monthly security update support for its flagships and two more years of quarterly security patches. While selected mid-range smartphones also eligible for monthly security patches for better security. Furthermore, some devices are still receiving security updates after five/six years of their launching like the Galaxy S6 and Note 5 devices received new updates even after the completion of its update lifecycle.

Well, the above information is only regarding security updates. If we talk about major Android OS upgrades, Samsung is committed to supporting the latest Android OS upgrades until the hardware specs allow them to provide the optimized mobile experience.

With its already impressive update policy, Samsung has extended the lifecycle of its smartphones. The company has also grown its major OS upgrade policy. Now the high-end smartphones including the Note, S, Fold/Flip, Tab S series, and select A series smartphones are listed to receive three years of latest Android upgrade support.

That’s not it because when other phone makers provide only one Android upgrade for its high-end smartphones, Samsung gives two generations of Android updates for its mid-range and budget phones.

These moves make Samsung, the best software updates provider among all the other phone manufacturers. In my opinion, Samsung, you are doing a fantastic job with software updates.

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James is the lead content creator on Sammy Fans and mostly works on Samsung's firmware section. His first phone was the Galaxy S4 and continues to get new S series devices. Most of the time, James tries to learn about new technologies and gadgets but he also sneaks a bit of free time to nearby rivers and nature.

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Android Updates War: Google’s Game-Changing Move to Outshine Samsung

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When it comes to Android updates, Samsung is leading the Android world. However, this could be the last day of Samsung’s leadership as Google is expected to double up its current Android updates support for Pixel smartphones launching today.

2020 was a remarkable year in Samsung’s history when the company extended Android updates support from two years to three. A few months later, the company extended the security support as well, totaling it to four years for flagship Galaxy devices.

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In 2022, Samsung launched the Galaxy S22 series, which offers four generations of OS upgrades. In its announcement, the company listed all flagships launched in 2021 and later along with select Galaxy A series smartphones for 4 OS and 5 years of security patches.

With this decision, the South Korean tech giant surpassed Google’s support policy, which owns Android. To be noted, Tensor-powered Pixel smartphones come with three years of Android and five years of monthly security updates support.

Today, Google will launch the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro smartphones. And as per the leaks, both phones will offer up to 7 years of software support, surpassing the longest support provided by Apple to its iPhones. Pixel 8 and later might be eligible for 7 major OS upgrades, which sounds a bit confusing.

There are speculations that there will be five major OS versions and 7 years of regular security patches and quarterly Pixel Feature Drops for the latest flagship smartphones. If it happens, it will force other Android vendors to further extend their support.

While Pixel phones are limited to support 3 major OS versions, Samsung is offering 4 generations of OS upgrades to cheaper Galaxy devices that costs approx $249. Samsung won’t take too long to beat Google yet again in terms of software support.

Let’s see, what Google has to offer to the Android world!

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Here’s why Samsung apps start getting One UI 6 support ahead of official release

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After One UI 5.1, we started hearing a lot of news, leaks, and rumors about the upcoming One UI 6. Recently, Samsung has also started releasing One UI 6.0 support for stock apps, starting with the Calculator app.

Looking at all this, we can expect that Samsung will provide this support to more apps in the future too. But the question is, why is Samsung providing One UI 6.0 support to its stocks apps before the official release? If you are thinking that by getting their support, you will get some new features in your apps, then it is not only the reason.

Samsung One UI 6.0 support can also bring new features for apps, but the main reason for this is something else. But what? The answer is that Samsung is going to release a new One UI update in the coming weeks or months and the company aims to make its stock apps compatible with that accordingly. Once the app is supported, the app will not stop working or get crash whenever the company releases that update for the smartphone.

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A recent report revealed that Samsung’s stable Android 14 update will be available in October. This is the same time frame as last year’s UI rollout, with the latest Galaxy S lineup being the first to secure it. Meanwhile, beta activity is seeing an early start if everything goes as planned by the internals.

Still, for the time being, we can consider this information as a pinch of salt as the company has not yet announced any official timeline for One UI 6.0.

Samsung confirms One UI 6 and Good Lock features finding underway

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Instead of Camera, Samsung should bring battery upgrade to flagships

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Nowadays, smartphones are being heavily used for gaming and photography. Accordingly, phone makers are focussing more and more on upgrading the imaging capabilities and performance of chipsets. So why not, Samsung should now bring battery upgrade to Galaxy flagships.

Battery upgrade should be the next aim

The recently launched Galaxy S23 Ultra brings a high-profile 200-megapixel camera, allowing users to capture lossless shots, even when cropped. With great collaboration between hardware and software, the new Samsung flagships offer peace of mind to consumers, when it comes to battery life.

In addition to camera lovers, people prefer buying a smartphone, which offers great battery life without compromising features and power specifications. In the same way, Samsung is reportedly working, and there’s still room for improvements in flagships battery life.

The Galaxy S24 Ultra could come with a new battery technology inspired by electronic vehicles. The company is considering stacked battery technology for smartphones, which will reduce the size keeping the same mAh and enhanced lifespan.

Since the stacked battery tech could leave more gap inside the phone, Samsung might not think about increasing mAh on flagship phones. Instead, the company may use an additional vacant area for upgrading other hardware elements and better placement.

The S23 Ultra even defeated the years-old leader iPhone in terms of battery performance, thanks to the “Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 for Galaxy” processor. Exynos 2400 is reportedly coming to the S24 series in certain markets, which re-creates concern about the phone’s battery life and performance.

That said, Samsung should focus on increasing premium Galaxy phones’ battery life so users can use them longer with a single charge. 45W fast charging is doing quite well, just improvements to battery life would prove as cherry on the cake.

What do you think about it, do share your thoughts with us through the Tweet embedded below.

Poll Results: May 12, 2023

We ran a poll that received 106 votes from our readers’ community. Among all, about 70 percent of readers voted in favor of a battery upgrade instead of the camera, while 23.6 percent want both upgrades together. Meanwhile, 6.6 percent of voters still want Samsung to focus on flagship camera upgrade.

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