This suggests that companies often release updates for their high-priced devices. Graph for the time taken by manufacturers to update their phones to the latest Android version However, even after 12 months of Android Pie’s release, no other company apart from Xiaomi and Lenovo has updated more than half of its portfolio of phones to the latest version. The report also notes that Nokia updated almost 50 percent of its phones shipped in the last year to the latest Android version in six months. However, other leading firms such as Lenovo, Oppo, and Vivo have disappointing numbers with more than 50 percent of their devices still running Android 8.1 Oreo or older. Top phone companies such as Xiaomi and Huawei have more than 80 percent devices running Android 9.o Pie. The Korean giant Samsung is in the second spot with 89 percent of its devices running the latest Android version. It notes that Nokia leads the race for pushing updates, with 96 percent of the phones it’s shipped in the past year running Android Pie 9.0. Still, a lot of onus falls on phone makers to push frequent OS and security updates.Ī new report from the research firm Counterpoint shows how different manufacturers have pushed updates in the past year (Q3 2018 – Q2 2019). Google has been trying to solve that problem by pushing more fixes through the Google Play services, and initiatives like Project Treble and Project Mainline. One of the major concerns when you buy an Android device is the frequency of updates you’ll receive over the years.
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