Samsung will no longer release security updates for its more than four-year-old Galaxy Note 9. It has announced this on its website. Furthermore, the Galaxy Note 10 will only receive quarterly updates from now on.
Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Updates
Good thing about Samsung is that the brand on his website lists all its phones and tablets that receive security updates. From that list, the company has now removed the Samsung Galaxy Note 9, which has Galaxy Club discovers.
The phone turned exactly four years old on August 24, which means the update cycle is over. The Note 9 came with Android 8.1 Oreo and Samsung has updated the smartphone with updates up to Android 10. In her review, my colleague Claudia described the Note 9 as a “flagship for the niche”. The phone distinguished itself with its S Pen and slightly larger screen, but otherwise it was also somewhat in the shadow of the Galaxy S9 series due to its high price.
Samsung Galaxy Note 10
Samsung also announces in its update overview that the Samsung Galaxy Note 10 and the Note 10 Plus will receive quarterly updates from now on. We expect that those smartphones will receive security patches until next year and that support will also stop for the Note 10 series after that.
The phones are also not eligible for Samsung’s new policy of five years of security updates. That only applies to the Galaxy S21 series, the Galaxy Z Fold 3, the Z Flip 3 and all newer devices. It is important that the Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Lite can still count on its monthly patches. After all, that phone came on the market six months later, in January 2020.
Do you still have a Samsung Galaxy Note 9 that still works fine, and is it time to buy a new one? Yes and no, we explain it here. Samsung and Google are currently the only Android phone manufacturer to provide their smartphones with security updates for five years. The European Union may soon change that.
– Thanks for information from Androidworld. Source