Page 1 of Android vs iOS mobile phone support

http://www.fidlee.com/android-support-vs-ios-support/

Interesting graph showing you how awful android phone manufacturers are at supporting their phones with software updates as they age.

Though it looks like iOS 7 will be the last OS my iPhone 4 will get. Still, shouldn't complain looking at the graph. :)


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I guess it's not in their interest to support old phones with security updates etc, they'd rather you buy a new one.

my phone is relatively recent, but quite cheap, so I may root it to upgrade, but then there may be a performance problem if its processor is too low spec for latest Android :(

these may help

http://forum.xda-developers.com/

http://www.cyanogenmod.org/

This item was edited on Friday, 6th December 2013, 12:42

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Google lays out plans to update Android more regularly and frequently

More updates for people (and carriers) to ignore
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/08/android-moving-to-a-regular-maintenance-schedule-with-continued-public-betas/

This item was edited on Wednesday, 24th August 2016, 12:23

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Android phone makers are notoriously bad at getting major updates out to their phones in a timely manner, and any hardware more than a year or two old is lucky to get updates at all.
Says it all for me really. :/

That and how much I've come to loathe Google's complete inability to make nice UIs. YouTube is my current bugbear, it's the most awful mess of a UI now. How can they have that much money and be that bad???

Oh wait... Microsoft.

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Android manufacturers still awful at updates:
https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/13/17233122/android-software-patch-trust-problem

Frustrating, it's like Microsoft finally got their act together and now Google have created a whole new bunch of attack vectors.

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