Samsung Electronics has made important clarifications to clarify the principles of the new update policy for Galaxy smartphones and tablets.
In February, Samsung announced that 2019 and newer Galaxy devices, including the Z, S, Note, A, M, XCover, and Tab series, will receive regular security updates for a minimum of four years after release. This approach is simply revolutionary for Android smartphone manufacturers.
As it turns out, “regularity” differs greatly from model to model, as well as the freshness of the model. Explanations are provided on the updated page on the Samsung website for security updates.
Until recently, Samsung divided devices into three categories according to the frequency of updates – “monthly”, “quarterly” and “with a different frequency.” The first category includes the newest and most relevant smartphones and tablets, over time they move to the second, and the last category includes old devices that are no longer updated frequently or regularly. Now it has been renamed Twice a Year. Getting security updates only twice a year is not very good, but much better than not getting them at all.
At the time of this writing, the following models were recorded in the category with updates “twice a year”:
- Galaxy S8 Lite, Galaxy Note FE
- Galaxy A6, Galaxy A6 +, Galaxy A7 (2018), Galaxy A8 + (2018), Galaxy A8 Star, Galaxy A8s, Galaxy A9 (2018)
- Galaxy J2 Core, Galaxy J3 (2017), Galaxy J3 Top, Galaxy J4, Galaxy J4 +, Galaxy J4 Core, Galaxy J5 (2017), Galaxy J6, Galaxy J6 +, Galaxy J7 (2017), Galaxy J7 Duo, Galaxy J7 Prime2, Galaxy
- J7 Pop, Galaxy J7 Top, Galaxy J7 Max, Galaxy J7 Neo, Galaxy J7 +, Galaxy J8
- Galaxy M10, Galaxy M20
- Galaxy Tab A (2017), Galaxy Tab A 10.5 (2018), Galaxy Tab S3, Galaxy Tab S4, Galaxy Tab E 8 Refresh
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