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Snapdragon 888 phones will be eligible for up to 3 Android OS updates Google’s Project Treble has been around since 2017 with the aim of speeding up Android updates by modularizing the core Android OS framework from the OEM skin customization. Now, Google and Qualcomm are teaming up to help Snapdragon-powered phones get support for up to 4 Android OS versions (launch release + 3 OS updates) and 4 years of security updates. Project Treble infographic Starting with the new Snapdragon 888 platform, Project Treble will bring the added OS and security update support which is a monumental shift ...

Qualcomm Back in 2017, Google announced Project Treble, a modular redesign of Android’s low-level system architecture that was supposed to reduce the time it took for phone manufacturers to update their devices with the latest version of its mobile operating system. A new partnership between Google and Qualcomm, the company that makes the Snapdragon processors you find in most Android phones, will see the two companies work together to improve Project Treble and further simplify the update process for devices that feature a Qualcomm chipset. They say their partnership will help reduce the t...

Google, Qualcomm partner to offer up to 4 years of Android updates Google launched Project Treble with the aim of reducing the fragmentation of the Android ecosystem across various smartphone manufacturers and devices. Initially the project focused on helping smartphone manufacturers quickly push out updates, and now, Google has announced a new collaboration with Qualcomm to enhance and extend Project Treble right down to the SoC level. Before Project Treble, Android was well known to be heavily fragmented; OS upgrades for smartphones would sometimes take years or never happen. Part of the re...

The work will lead to lower upgrade costs and support for devices for longer periods of time, Google claims Android phones in the future will support up to four new OS versions thanks to a collaboration between Google and Qualcomm. All new mobile platforms with Qualcomm silicon will get four OS version updates and four years of security updates, according to a blog post by Google engineers. In 2017, Google changed Android to be more modular and enabling easier updates. This move, known as Project Treble, split the OS framework and device-specific low-level software (called the vendor implemen...

Android 11 has rolled out to devices faster than Android 10 Despite the faster roll-out, Android 11 has arrived for users only slightly faster than Android 10 did It looks like Android 11 has the fastest adoption rate yet for a major new software release, albeit barely. The news comes as part of Google and Qualcomm announcing a longer update window for the latter company’s chipsets. In short, new Qualcomm Snapdragon chipsets will allow for up to three major Android updates — you can learn more about that announcement here. As part of that announcement, Google also shared tha...