Samsung doesn’t launch greater than two main Android OS updates for its units and doesn’t actually maintain flagship units on the month-to-month launch schedule for safety updates past three years. That’s simply the way in which it's and there’s no indication of this altering any time quickly.
With the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ now crossing that threshold, it’s no shock that the corporate has shifted each of those units to the quarterly cycle. Meaning each of those units will not obtain month-to-month safety updates.
No extra month-to-month safety updates for the Galaxy S8/S8+
Samsung had been sending out month-to-month safety updates for these handsets up until now, releasing one simply final month which introduced the April 2020 safety patch.
Provided that the Galaxy S8/S8+ hit cabinets on April 21, 2017, it has been a full three years since these units had been launched.
It was about time that Samsung shifted them from the month-to-month replace cycle to the quarterly cycle, and it has performed simply that now.
What does being on the quarterly schedule imply precisely? Samsung will merely bundle the entire safety updates in a single firmware replace that’s going to be dispatched out as soon as each quarter.
There was clearly no query of the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ getting the Android 10 replace. They've obtained the 2 main OS updates that they had been entitled to.
Going ahead, these units will solely obtain one replace per quarter. No new options have been added to the units for fairly a while now anyway, so there’s no use anticipating that the subsequent replace will convey something apart from the safety patch.
The Galaxy S8 Energetic remains to be on the month-to-month replace cycle. It arrived in August 2017 so it nonetheless has a methods to go earlier than hitting the three-year threshold after which it should even be relegated to the quarterly cycle.
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