Galaxy flagships to now get regular security updates for longer?

This is a positive development as far as long-term support for flagship devices is concerned. Samsung probably isn't going to start pushing three major Android OS updates to flagships, although that would be great to see now that even budget Galaxies get two OS upgrades. However, the company is making an official commitment to push security updates regularly to the S7 and S7 edge even after their third year on the market. Before this, after the third year, flagship devices only received updates when strictly necessary.

In fact, Samsung has already extended this courtesy to a mid-range device: The Galaxy A5 (2016) was also moved to the quarterly schedule earlier this year after completing three years on the market. It remains to be seen how long any of these devices will remain in the quarterly schedule, although we're guessing Samsung will keep it ongoing for at least the entirety of the fourth year.

Abhijeet Mishra - Executive Editor

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First Samsung device: SGH-D500

Abhijeet's writing career started with custom ROM guides for Samsung devices (including the original Galaxy S), and he moved to SamMobile in mid-2013 and worked up the ranks to Editor-in-chief. His first Samsung phone was the D500

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Three-year-old Galaxy S7 will now get quarterly security updates

Galaxy flagships to now get regular security updates for longer?

Abhijeet Mishra - Executive Editor

[email protected]

First Samsung device: SGH-D500

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