Right now, there are three manufacturers competing to offer the best Android support: Samsung, Google and Oneplus. At the moment, Samsung is in the lead, since it is the only one that guarantees four Android updates to its flagships and this year they have updated almost their entire catalog of eligible smartphones to Android 13 in just one month.

Google follows them closely with its 3 years of updates and the advantage that their phones are always the first to have the latest version of Android. However, OnePlus has just relegated the big G to last place. And it is that they have extended their update policy from 3 to 4 years , which matches the high-end OnePlus with the Samsung flagship in this regard. This new policy will take effect from 2023.

OnePlus joins Samsung as the only manufacturers that guarantee you 4 major updates

Starting in 2023, select new OnePlus phones (high-end or upper-middle-range ones likely) will receive four major OxygenOS updates and five years of security updates . That means that if you buy a OnePlus mobile with Android 13 in 2023, it will be able to update to Android 17 and renew its security patch until 2028. Great, don’t you think?

OnePlus head of software products Gary Chen says the move “enables longer replacement cycles for mobile devices,” signaling a shift in thinking at the company “in response to changing market dynamics.” Let’s not forget that in the third quarter of the year mobile phone sales fell by 12%, but Apple grew by 2% and everything indicates that the market will continue to evolve at this rate. Why? Because people now prefer to change less mobile, but stay updated, and iPhones are the smartphones that receive the most updates (5 years of iOS support).

What OnePlus phones will have 4 years of Android updates?

OnePlus hasn’t specified which phones will get an extra year of updates, but the company will likely follow its previous staggered upgrade schedule based on the cost of the device. The high-end OnePlus 8, 9 and 10 series, priced at around 800 euros, receive three major operating system updates, while less expensive phones like the OnePlus 7, OnePlus Nord and Nord 2 only receive two updates. main operating system. We assume that the most expensive mobiles will receive four updates and the least expensive will receive three.

In any case, it is practically a fact that the new OnePlus 11 and 11 Pro will be the ones that will launch the company’s new update policy , which will be a great incentive to buy them.

Source | Android Central

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