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Samsung announced two new Galaxy A series smartphones, the Galaxy A15 and Galaxy A25, earlier this month. These handsets bring some hardware upgrades over their predecessors, but more importantly, they are the first Samsung phones to come with One UI 6 out of the box (not counting the Galaxy S23 FE, which launched with One […]
The Galaxy F54 5G is coming soon. Samsung will release the phone in India on June 6, and virtually everything about it, from specifications to its price, has already emerged in tweets, images, and even a hands-on video. And among all the information available, one of the most surprising facts about the Galaxy F54 5G […]
Samsung recently launched its new flagship foldables, so it's only natural that the conversation right now involves those phones quite a fair bit. The Galaxy Z Fold 4 and Galaxy Z Flip 4 come with many great hardware features, and on the software front, they come with Samsung's promise of four Android OS upgrades, all […]
The Galaxy A33, A53, and A73 are some of the most promising mid-range Android phones Samsung's ever released, for the simple fact that all three devices benefit from flagship-grade firmware support. Samsung now guarantees a whopping four major Android OS upgrades and five years' worth of security patches for the Galaxy A (2022) trio, similar to […]
After Samsung set an example by extending the Android OS update policy from two to three major OS updates, the company appears to be doing it again at Unpacked 2022. According to a fresh leak, Samsung intends to extend the Android update policy for a handful of devices from three to four major OS updates. […]
Ever since Samsung announced that the Galaxy S24 series will be getting Android and One UI updates for seven years, people have been left wondering what other Galaxy devices will get the luxury of such insane after-sales software support. The answer, unfortunately, was not the one fans wanted: Samsung has confirmed that no Galaxy smartphone […]
In October of 2023, Google amazed everyone by announcing that it would provide Android version upgrades and security updates to Pixel smartphones for a whopping seven years. That kind of commitment to software updates was simply unheard of in the smartphone market, with even Apple only supporting iPhones and iPads with five major iOS updates. […]
The announcement of the Galaxy S23 FE coincided with Google's official release of Android 14 for Pixel smartphones. But as you may already be aware, Samsung's latest Fan Edition device made its debut running Android 13. The S23 FE is eligible for four major OS upgrades, and one of those upgrades was effectively wasted because […]
Samsung remains the king of firmware updates across the Android landscape. Even though things might not always go as planned and beta update programs can last longer than we'd like, Samsung's OS update policies are ahead of the curve. As of this writing, no other Android OEM supports its phones and tablets like Samsung does; […]
In less than two months, it will have been four years since the Galaxy S10 series hit retail shelves as the last Galaxy S flagship that sported features like a 3.5mm headphone jack and a microSD slot. Thanks to Samsung's commitment to long-term after-sales support (and to helping the environment by reducing the frequency at […]
Over the past couple of weeks, the Galaxy S21 FE received the December 2022 security update in Europe and the US. Now, the Exynos 2100 version of the smartphone has also started getting the new security patch in some Asian and European countries. The new software update for the Exynos 2100 version of the Galaxy […]
Samsung's announcement that it would provide some smartphones with three generations of Android OS upgrades back in 2019 impressed many of us, and we were even happier to learn later on that Samsung was bumping the total number of major OS upgrades for its flagships and some mid-rangers to four, basically out-Android Google itself. The […]
It goes without saying that SamMobile is a Samsung fan website. It's in the name, after all. But from where does this dedication stem? Is it blind fandom? Or do we have good reasons for supporting this mobile brand? Why not another? Why Samsung, in particular? Is it because it's the top smartphone company? Are […]
Samsung has consistently shown over the past few years that it is the best in the Android business when it comes to software support. For a long time, almost all of its phones received two major OS upgrades, until Samsung finally switched to providing three big updates to all of its flagships and some of […]
Samsung had made a huge announcement today regarding software updates. The company has confirmed at its Unpacked event that it will now provide four years of Android OS upgrades to select devices. As you'd probably expect, the new Galaxy S22 series is on the list. There are a few existing devices that have also been […]