By now, Samsung has established its superiority successful the substance of bundle updates, that overmuch is for sure. Back successful 2019, Samsung became the archetypal shaper to promise 3 generations of Android OS upgrades to mid-range and flagship phones alike. And aboriginal on, Samsung decided 3 large upgrades weren’t capable and bumped the fig up to four, which was conscionable unheard of successful the satellite of Android devices.
Some manufacturers are present trying to instrumentality inspiration from Samsung – one illustration is OnePlus, which announced earlier this week that it would update immoderate of its phones to caller versions of Android for 4 years and adhd different twelvemonth of information updates. But if you look astatine wherever Samsung is close present with the Android 13 and One UI 5.0 update, it’s go wide that the contention whitethorn ne'er beryllium capable to truly spell toed to toed with the Korean giant.
40+ Galaxy devices updated to Android 13 earlier December kicked off
Why? Well, due to the fact that in conscionable a period and a half, Samsung has updated much than 40 Galaxy devices to Android 13. Let that descend in: much than 40 Galaxy devices are moving the latest mentation of Android and Samsung’s One UI, single-handedly beating each different Android shaper combined!
Samsung had been getting faster astatine releasing the latest mentation of Android for its flagships for immoderate time, but that’s the thing: earlier 2022, it was beauteous overmuch conscionable the flagship phones that commanded each of Samsung’s attraction erstwhile it came to large updates. And we would lone person a fistful of devices updated the aforesaid twelvemonth the caller mentation of Android came out.
Now, Samsung simply does not look to attraction if it’s a mid-range telephone oregon a flagship and is beauteous overmuch pushing retired updates to assorted devices connected a regular basis, careless of wherever a instrumentality mightiness basal connected the pricing — or popularity — ladder. Case successful point: phones similar the Galaxy A22 5G and the Galaxy M33 5G person been updated, successful summation to your accustomed suspects, such arsenic the latest flagships.
Samsung is fundamentally telling everyone, Chinese manufacturers included, what tin beryllium done if you attraction capable astir after-sales bundle enactment and updates. Yes, the rollouts person been dilatory to grow globally for galore devices, but adjacent keeping that successful mind, it doesn’t marque it immoderate little awesome that Samsung has managed to bring the update to much than 3 twelve Galaxy devices successful specified a abbreviated span of time.
It shows that Samsung is trying its champion to marque the update concern amended each accidental it gets, and its lightning speedy merchandise of Android 13 and One UI 5.0 is its biggest measurement guardant yet. And things should lone get amended from here, if Samsung’s caller past with updates is thing to spell by. By this clip adjacent year, possibly each eligible Galaxy devices volition person received Android 14?
Maybe, possibly not, but 1 tin hope, right?