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Old 11-06-2015, 09:05 PM   #1
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How often do you get updates or upgrades from a low cost or high cost phone?


Hi

I'm not sure if this question has been posted or answered in the past.

From my experience, if you buy a low cost android phone, support and updates are far and few and then finally stopped.

I never owned an expensive android phone ( i.e over $400+ ).

If you had purchased or know someone who purchased an expensive android phone, how oftened are the security updates and OS upgrades?

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Old 11-07-2015, 02:37 AM   #2
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I can speak of flagship models in Japan. They get updates whenever the carier feels like it. It is slowed down because they programme like a bunch of idiots and do not release updates without first adding their crap.

On the other hand a cheap nexus phone that is sold by ymobile (yahoo partnership) updates as soon as a stable version is released by google.

My nexus is running the latest release while my galaxy s6 is running 5.0.2

So if you want to buy a new phone that is expensive thinking better support. You are wasting your time.

Those nexus phones are great but unfortunately only ymobile here has them. Their LTE coverage is not that hot in many areas so that renders the phone pretty useless when trying to run vpn connections for work.
 
Old 11-07-2015, 03:32 AM   #3
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It's very simple - once you buy a phone consider it a throwaway as the manufacturers want you to buy another within a year or so. If you don't buy a new phone regularly - they don't make money...
 
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I still stick with the best bloody all rounder on the market being a nexus. It seriously updates as soon as google pushes a new version and by all means it is not the newest nexus either. Sure they can splash a bit more on the display and overall quality, but seriously the only phone that comes close to challenging a s6 for me is a nexus. They are no fril no this no that. Just does what it is supposed to. Really wonderful phones those.
 
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Old 11-07-2015, 02:58 PM   #5
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I come to the conclusion that the only way to get frequent updates and new android versions is any of these three options:
  • Buy phones that google supports.
  • Buy a Cyanogenmod supported phone
  • A Geeksphone or similar

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Old 11-07-2015, 11:31 PM   #6
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That pretty much sums it up neatly yes.
 
  


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