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»Google Is Promising Four Years of OS Updates If You Buy An Android Phone With Qualcomm SoC In Future
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Google Is Promising Four Years of OS Updates If You Buy An Android Phone With Qualcomm SoC In Future
A graph shared by Google to give an idea of Android life-cycle. (Image Credit: Google)
The goal for the partnership between Google and Qualcomm is to increase the life cycle of Android smartphones.
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Google has partnered with chipmaker Qualcomm to expand its Project Treble, in order to ensure four Android OS updates and four security updates on upcoming Android 11 smartphones that are powered by Qualcomm chipsets. With the latest partnership with Qualcomm, Google has only expanded its Project Treble that was introduced in 2017 to enable faster Android updates from manufacturers. Google announced the partnership with the chipmaker in an official blog post on the Android developers forum. According to the new partnership, smartphones powered by Qualcomm chi
(Pocket-lint) - Qualcomm and Google have announced a partnership aiming to make it easier for Android phone manufacturers to ensure that their devices are compatible with the latest version of the Android OS and accelerate the update process.
While there s little practical difference between the functionality of leading Android phones and Apple s own smartphone the iPhone, updates have always been the bugbear of Google s platform.
Not only does Apple manage to update all its devices on the same day, but that often includes support for many legacy devices. iOS 14, the latest iPhone software from Apple goes all the way back to the iPhone SE, announced in 2016. Android 11, by contrast, only goes back as far as the Pixel 2, announced in 2017.
Qualcomm has announced it s working with Google to expand Project Treble.
The partnership aims to bring up to 4 years of updates to Android devices powered by Qualcomm chips, starting with the Snapdragon 888.
It s still up to smartphone OEMs on whether or not they want to continue providing updates.
The Android update process has always been a mess and was once the main pain point for users. They have admittedly gotten better over the past several years, thanks to Google s push for Project Treble, which it introduced in 2017 as part of Android 8.0 Oreo. In a nutshell, Project Treble separates Android into different parts, which is supposed to make it easier for Android OEMs to update what they need and push them out quicker. It was a bit of a slow uptake, but OEMs have managed to speed up the pace at which major updates are pushed out to devices, especially with Android 10. And while the update situation for Android is much improved, Qualcomm and Google have announced a partnershi
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