Nokia 3 receives Android 8.1 Oreo update
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- Bijai
- 3Yd
- 28 Dec 2018
Just updated my Nokia 3, looks like they have removed the format as internal storage option. Make sure you have backed up all your data before the update.
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- the programer
- 2Am
- 26 Dec 2018
its good to see phone with low price updates to what it deserve compares to the phones that has high price tag that its hard to see updates into it.
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- Anonymous
- 39h
- 23 Dec 2018
So, some info about drivers for mobile chipsets:
The GPU design and the reference drivers and their sources are produced by the original designers, such as ARM and Imagination. MediaTek can't "close" the sources because they didn't write them to begin with, and to suggest that MediaTek would offer drivers in object format or plain binary blobs to their customers is absurd. They would never be able to obtain customers that way.
This delay is not because MediaTek are refusing to open source drivers that they don't own or created to begin with, it's because HMD can't do a quick, clean, Trebble-supported Android 8 build for this phone, because there are implications on performance and size.
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- Anonymous
- PGq
- 23 Dec 2018
Not surprising, Mediatek has ALWAYS been closed-source on it's drivers since inception & hardly ever releases drivers for manufacturers. This also explains why Redmi Note 3 & Redmi Note 4 running on Mediatek chipsets NEVER got an Android upgrade. Hey Mediatek, it's almost the end of 2018 & yet you can't even bother to do AT LEAST some open sourcing your drivers like Qualcomm did?!
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- Anonymous
- L2W
- 22 Dec 2018
Anonymous, 22 Dec 2018You're wrong.
There is a significant performance decreas... moreYou can have android 8 or 9 without the treble support. It just requires more work to be done...
Normally if your phone is slower after update you just need to make factory reset to it. It should Remedy problems in most cases.
I am not sure if treble itself make phone slower... it does make common interface to drivers so if the phone does support treble it makes it easier to port older drivers to new os version. It is possible that the layer between the os and driver can reduce speed but I have not seen any article handling this case.
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- bug
- pqy
- 22 Dec 2018
Anonymous, 22 Dec 2018You're wrong. There is a significant performance decreas... moreDo you have a source for that claim that treble impacts performance? It's the first time I've heard about it.
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- Anonymous
- 39h
- 22 Dec 2018
Faheem, 21 Dec 2018I think HMD not to blame here, Its MT chipsets. They dont r... moreYou're wrong.
There is a significant performance decrease going from Android 7 to 8, thanks to the so called "Trebble support" in Android 8. Because the Nokia 3 is relatively weak in performance, HMD can't push a clean Android 8 build to the phone, it would have too big impact on performance, and they had to spend many months pulling most of Android 8's features into the phone's Android 7 build.
Don't hold your breath waiting for Android 9 on the Nokia 3.
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- Anonymous
- IsY
- 22 Dec 2018
HMD will update it to Pie.
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- Adul Al Salami Kebab
- nrX
- 22 Dec 2018
Maybe my phone wont kill it self anymore each update after it get 8.1? :D
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- Anonymous
- nxF
- 21 Dec 2018
Mediatek devices rarely, if ever receive security patches (real, kernel patches, not just a cosmetic security patch string update to the current). Getting a whole Android system update is nothing short of a mirracle.
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- Mike
- fqL
- 21 Dec 2018
Great for end users
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- bug
- pqy
- 21 Dec 2018
As the article points out, MediaTek powered phones rarely get updates regardless of the manufacturer.
To add a little perspective, my own Moto G5S Plus, which was way more expensive than this Nokia 3, only got 8.1 like a month ago.
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- Anonymous
- MQ3
- 21 Dec 2018
Great job nokia (HMD). This if prove that manufaturers don´t update because they simply don´t care....
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- Anna
- tTd
- 21 Dec 2018
Where are all those users who were blaming Nokia / HMD as Chinese company? This phone has just 2GB RAM & 16GB phone memory. Phones launched with this specifications by all those Chinese companies are still stuck at Nougat. Thanks Nokia HMD for the software support even to low end phones!
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- Anonymous
- U2T
- 21 Dec 2018
Anonymous, 21 Dec 2018Even Android 8.1 update + December security patch is way be... moreMuch much better
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- Anonymous
- 7tV
- 21 Dec 2018
Even Android 8.1 update + December security patch is way better than other devices in this price range.
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- Vinu007
- XRr
- 21 Dec 2018
Nokia is doing great job. Even cheaper phones getting regular updates
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- Faheem
- XRD
- 21 Dec 2018
I think HMD not to blame here, Its MT chipsets. They dont release drivers software for latest OS.