OnePlus’s new Android update policy matches Samsung, shames Google - Digital Trends

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Andy Boxall

By Andy Boxall November 30, 2022 1:00AM

OnePlus volition present 4 large OxygenOS updates and 5 years of information updates to immoderate caller devices it launches successful 2023. Confirmed astatine a OnePlus assemblage lawsuit successful London, the institution said the determination was partially driven by recognizing much radical are keeping their phones for longer.

Gary Chen, caput of bundle products astatine OnePlus, said, “We bash everything we tin to heighten idiosyncratic experience. With much users keeping their devices for longer, we privation to marque definite we tin connection that possibility. This caller update argumentation volition springiness users entree to the latest information and functional features required to powerfulness OnePlus’ signature fast-and-smooth acquisition passim the beingness of the phone.”

The alteration replaces the existent committedness to supply 3 years of large updates and 4 years of information updates. It besides matches Samsung’s update policy and manages to beat Google’s policy. According to Google, the Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro volition person large Android mentation updates until the extremity of 2025, meaning astir 3 years of support. The phones volition get 5 years of information updates.

It’s large news, but what isn’t wide is erstwhile the archetypal phones that incorporated the updated argumentation volition get — and it’s unfortunate it seems lone immoderate of OnePlus’ 2023 phones volition get the longer update support. Currently, OnePlus has a akin system, wherever selected phones person a three-year update plan, portion different devices — specified arsenic immoderate Nord phones — person a acold shorter update schedule. We’d expect the caller argumentation to use to the OnePlus 11 series.

In summation to quality connected the caller update policy, OnePlus besides stated the adjacent mentation of OxygenOS volition motorboat during the archetypal fractional of 2023. Called OxygenOS 13.1, small was shared successful presumption of features, but we’re told to expect a absorption connected information and information with a caller mentation of OnePlus’s Private Safe. This is presently astatine mentation 2.0 and performs actions similar pixelating backstage accusation successful screenshots from apps specified arsenic Facebook and WhatsApp. Multimedia apps, including the photograph gallery, volition beryllium improved too.

Finally, successful unsurprising news, the beingness of OxygenOS 14 was confirmed, though the institution has not provided immoderate authoritative accusation astir the software. If OxygenOS 13.1 isn’t expected for what could beryllium 7 months, it’s improbable we’ll spot mentation 14 until overmuch aboriginal adjacent twelvemonth oregon beyond.