OnePlus explains why it's only promising 5 years of Android updates, not more
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- yalim
- mu4
- 08 Feb 2024
it is not about using the phone for 7 years. it is about opportunity to buy a 2 year old flagship and have a 3-4-5 years of support. I have an iphone11 at home,it has IOS17 and it is fairly snappy in it's 6th year. I also bought a brand new iphone13 to my parents in 2023 knowing that it will still have 4-5 years of solid updates. battery will die on the way and you can replace it.since, older models will be more attractive with long time support,they will retain better value in second hand.
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- Anonymous
- CbB
- 08 Feb 2024
IWantSunshine, 08 Feb 2024Hmm. I beg to disagree. My old OnePlus 5 and my wife's... moreYou have replaced batteries of both phone, right? 80% health after 6+ years is impossible.
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- Anonymous
- CbC
- 08 Feb 2024
Anonymous, 07 Feb 2024This feels like it was written by ChatGPT.
I've bee... more"I've been using my desktop for almost 10 years now, and it has exactly the same performance as the day it was built."
How many hardware upgrades have you done? Because what you are saying is technically impossible. Either you are casual user who do not care if performance decays or you don't know any difference in performance.
"The "age" of the code, whatever that means, has absolutely zero effect on its function or hardware it's running on. "
What are you smoking? If what you say was the case then why windows 11 is not suitable for hardware older than 6-7 years (you can't install win 11 on much older hardware), why apple deliberately decrease performance of 5-6 year older phones? Because new code cannot keep up with old hardware.
"Aging has zero measurable effect on all components except for the battery and the flash memory.
Aging has profound effect on CPU and ram. Are you too old to notice it?
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- Anonymous
- CbC
- 08 Feb 2024
Anonymous, 07 Feb 2024"Phone, laptop, PC hardware degrade to almost half of ... moreCapacity of its performance as it was new.
I'm not praising the culture of waste, you are clinging too much to old technology.
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- Anonymous
- CbC
- 08 Feb 2024
Artem S. Tashkinov, 07 Feb 2024> Phone, laptop, PC hardware degrade to almost half of i... moreHow many times and how many spare parts have you changed? No computer perform as good as new after more than 7 years without hardware upgrade.
What are you smoking?
- Shellyman Studios
- 43V
- 08 Feb 2024
Anonymous, 07 Feb 2024The only people that do this are either very poor (understa... moreI can see from a normal iPhone user perspective, but with Android users. Even poor users generally upgrade their phones within that 2-3-year time frame. Sooner or later, we'll start seeing budget Android phones with 3-4 years of OS and 5 years of security as technology advances.
- Shellyman Studios
- 43V
- 08 Feb 2024
Artem S. Tashkinov, 07 Feb 2024People who are fine with their old devices and there are hu... moreWho said I was praising e-waste? Gas lighting much? ...
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- Anmol
- Dku
- 08 Feb 2024
I am using oneolus 7 pro with snapdragon 850 with lineage os and it still is lagfree and moldfree, battery can be replaced, my phone is still usable, all be it that 4g is the only bottleneck, but as 5g is not readily available anyways, i will be using my phone for more than the year from now.
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- xjH
- 08 Feb 2024
Long term phone usage depends on users need.
7 year support for phones is better as some users will stick with their phones for such long durations.
5 year is also not bad but don't just market it as standard or something like that as it is stupidity.
Some people buys phone every year and some don't do the same.
I am also a long time phone user like i try to use my phones for at least 3 to 5 year.
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- Anonymous
- spX
- 08 Feb 2024
5 years is pretty nice. considering Asucrap sells $1500 phones in a pathetic state of software with only 2 years of updates. all of them came out with nasty bugs and they solved SOME of them after 2 years 😂
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- IWantSunshine
- nxD
- 08 Feb 2024
Artem S. Tashkinov, 07 Feb 2024> Phone, laptop, PC hardware degrade to almost half of i... moreExactly. My PC is 10 years old and works perfect, even runs all the games (in full HD) I want. Absolutely no reason to replace.
Also I bought a Chromebook last year that is supported with updates until 2033. And that's the right thing for Google to do, I'm pretty sure it will be still a very good laptop in ten years time.
Also, as I wrote before we have two 6+ year old phones (OnePlus 5 and 5T), that albeit more backup / "leave at home" phones, still work perfect (okay, we usually didn't charge their batteries amount 80% and thanks to that they still have their original batteries that still retained 80%+ capacity). Try even run all games, including stuff like Asphalt. No lagging. No scratches on screen (Gorilla Glass...) Only reason why we don't use them much now is because they didn't get software updates for many years now so they are not that very safe anymore. But apart from that, why would I want a new phone. What does a new phone do better? Screen .5 inches bigger? I don't care. Apps starting in 0.4 seconds instead of 0.8 seconds? Couldn't care more. Bigger megapixel cameras? Nope, for me even 8MP is not than enough, I don't print A0 size posters of my photos. Nor I want to record videos in 4K. Then what... Oh, and their dedicated fingerprint sensors are still a lot more accurate and lot faster than these embedded in screen readers. They don't have punch holes in their screens either, I hate those holes... The only real innovation since that are the foldable phones...
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- IWantSunshine
- nxD
- 08 Feb 2024
Hmm. I beg to disagree. My old OnePlus 5 and my wife's old OnePlus 5T are both still going strong. Fast, batteries still above 80%, and they have plenty of RAM and storage. And they are 6+ years old phones. I don't see how Android 14 would worsen the user experience is they had official Android 14 update...
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- Raven
- ke}
- 08 Feb 2024
I rather have them make a promise to make smaller phones and not tablets on the go.
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- lokman
- KRW
- 08 Feb 2024
my experience with google pixel is .it will not last ..like they sent update to kill the phone..no matter what I do it will not get good..ia have 2 pixel xl both dies.samsung give 5 years update..2 years later you got light saber update
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- Anonymous
- Lr5
- 08 Feb 2024
Speaking of moldy software and terrible user experiences, my OP 9 pro was just released in 2021 and now it doesn't receive any system updates anymore. The battery draining is unbearable and this joke of a company just don't care
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- Anonymous
- 86f
- 07 Feb 2024
This is going to cost them my business and everyone in my family, as much as I enjoyed all my OnePlus phones from the 3 to my current 7 Pro, this is a bad call and they are not fooling anyone with this type of planned obsolescence and marketing mumbo jumbo.
Today's phones are a mature product that can handle 7 years of software updates, they have overpowered SOCs with 16 GB of RAM, even my 5 year old 7 Pro with 8 GB of RAM still runs perfectly on Android 13 and the 4 years of updates is the reason why I didn't buy the 12. Their research is also bullshit as the only reason most people upgrade is because software updates are unavailable.
Samsung or Google here I come if nothing changes next year, I refuse to junk perfectly good hardware because a profit greedy company refuses to properly support the product.
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- 4}u
- 07 Feb 2024
5 years is good enough. More than that the SoC, RAM, battery couldn't keep up anyway. I have an iPhone 7 Plus and Pixel XL for back up and authentication and they are useless in real life
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- Shane
- XMr
- 07 Feb 2024
laggdroids, 07 Feb 2024"because the rest of your experience with the phone is... moreWhat are you smoking? I change phone every 3 months, I have no idea why people want a software update 7 years.
Any phone after 2 years battery lifespan very terrible let alone 7 years, Samsung phone usually after 2 years will have green line, even in the new reported.
Just replacing the screen cost 400 buck, might as well sell it and buy new one yearly and top up new flagship 400 instead.
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- AnonD-1040250
- nIX
- 07 Feb 2024
Anonymous, 07 Feb 2024I have a desktop from 2014 that I still useHas it gone mouldy?