Newer Samsung Galaxy phones are promised seven years of updates.
Samsung is no best accouterment software or aegis updates for the Galaxy Z Fold 2 foldable smartphone that it appear in September 2020.
Highly advancing advanced of its abounding unveiling, the Z Fold 2 appear with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 865+, 12GB of RAM, 256GB of UFS 3.1 storage, and a 4500 mAh battery. The phone’s authentication is, of course, a foldable 7.6-inch OLED awning with 2208×1768 pixels active at a brace amount of up to 120 Hz. Surpassing its predecessor, the Fold 2’s alfresco awning is 6.2 inches (2260×816 pixels), compared to the Fold 1’s 4.6 inches. The Fold 2 additionally alien under-screen cameras to Samsung devices.
With the Fold 1 accepting austere backbone problems, the Fold 2 represented addition adventitious for Samsung. And Samsung connected with the band in 2021 in the anatomy of the cheaper ($1,800 aloft release) Galaxy Z Fold 3. Samsung is now up to its sixth abundance of the Galaxy Z Fold, which came out in July for $1,900.
Now Samsung is no best absorbed in afterlight the Fold 2. As Sam Mobile noticed today, Samsung removed the Fold 2 from its account of accessories that accept aegis updates. The foldable buzz accustomed its aftermost big Android OS amend aftermost year and accustomed a One UI amend at the end of 2023. Similarly, Samsung’s Galaxy Tab A7 is no best on Samsung's account of accurate devices, as 9to5Google spotted. The book came out in September 2020 for $230.
In February 2022, Samsung started able up to four ancestors of Android OS and One UI upgrades to “select” Galaxy devices, as able-bodied as “up to bristles years of aegis updates.” And in January, it appear affective to seven years of aegis and OS updates, analogous a move from Google. However, the Fold 2 wasn’t included in Samsung’s account of “select” Galaxy devices.
Thus, one could accept estimated that the Fold 2 ability stop accepting OS and aegis updates by 2024, four years afterwards its debut. But it's still adamantine to accommodate with advantageous four abstracts for a buzz that became a aegis accident afterwards four years, admitting activity appropriately otherwise. Apple, by comparison, now promises at atomic bristles years of aegis updates. Apple alone started authoritative that affiance in 2023 with the iPhone 15 series. However, the current-generation iOS 18 is accurate by iPhones appear in 2020, like the second-generation iPhone SE, and alike earlier ones, like the iPhone XR that came out in 2018. Arguably brief big-ticket accessories like the Fold 2 are allotment of the acumen some activists are blame for the FTC to crave that acute accessories accompaniment on their packaging how continued they'll accept updates.
However, clashing iPhones, Samsung phones aren't all powered by a proprietary chip, authoritative promises of upgrades crave commitments from third-party vendors, like Qualcomm. With Qualcomm accepted for actuality aggressive to best dent activity cycles in the past, seven years of updates is advance for Samsung users—just not those who invested in the Z Fold 2.
