sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to Android@lemdro.idEnglish · 9 days agoMotorola promises zero Android OS upgrades for its latest budget phones, ships with Android 159to5google.comexternal-linkmessage-square23linkfedilinkarrow-up11
arrow-up11external-linkMotorola promises zero Android OS upgrades for its latest budget phones, ships with Android 159to5google.comsabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to Android@lemdro.idEnglish · 9 days agomessage-square23linkfedilink
minus-squarestressballs@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·9 days agoThe phone will stop getting security updates in less than 3 years. It will still be a perfectly good phone by then. The battery won’t even have degraded out of service life.
minus-square_edge@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·9 days ago5 years in the EU If this means the device is usuable and reasonably secure for 5 years, this is fine. Other than avoiding ecosystem fragmentation, I’m not seeing tangible benefits of running the latest android.
minus-squarestressballs@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·9 days ago If this means the device is usuable and reasonably secure for 5 years, this is fine. It precisely means that is not going to be the case.
The phone will stop getting security updates in less than 3 years. It will still be a perfectly good phone by then. The battery won’t even have degraded out of service life.
5 years in the EU
If this means the device is usuable and reasonably secure for 5 years, this is fine.
Other than avoiding ecosystem fragmentation, I’m not seeing tangible benefits of running the latest android.
It precisely means that is not going to be the case.