Samsung is ending update support for the Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus after four years. An adjustment is also in the pipeline for the Samsung Galaxy S10 series.
Samsung Galaxy S9 and updates
The Galaxy S9 (849 euros) and S9 Plus (949 euros) are Samsung’s flagships from 2018. The phones received a 5.8-inch and a 6.2-inch AMOLED screen, the Exynos 9810 chipset with 4 GB/6 GB of RAM. and 64GB of storage. The Galaxy S9 had a single 12-megapixel camera on the back and an 8-megapixel camera for selfies. The Galaxy S9+ got two 12-megapixel rear cameras. The phones came with Samsung Experience 9.0 which was based on Android 8.0 Oreo. The phones now run on Android 10 and have only received quarterly updates in recent months.
Samsung has now adjusted the update schedule for the phones on his website† That discovered DroidLife† There it can be read that the manufacturer has stopped support for these phones. That is not to say that there will never be an update for the pair. Samsung will occasionally release an update for the S9 series if there are critical issues.
Samsung Galaxy S10
Meanwhile, we also see that Samsung has now moved the 2019 Galaxy S10 series from the monthly to a quarterly update schedule. That means that the phones now receive an update every quarter. The last update that the Samsung Galaxy S10 got was the March security update. The phones in this series will receive updates until this time next year.
Samsung gives its newer Galaxy updates four new Android versions and at least five years of security updates. The manufacturer announced this in February. You can read about which devices it concerns here.
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– Thanks for information from Androidworld. Source