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Qualcomm will offer OEMs the “ability to provide support for up to eight consecutive years of Android software and security updates.”

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 days ago (17 children)

Now will any company actually use this? It’s my biggest issue with android phones is so many of them just never get security updates

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Google, despite having a track record of killing services, does have a good track record to keep their phone up-to-date. On the other hand, most other android OEMs stop frequent update after a year or two.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

Their phones cost the same as iPhones with imo usually worse hardware which at least to me defeats the purpose.

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