OnePlus explains why it's only promising 5 years of Android updates, not more

06 February 2024
It all has to do with sandwiches.

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  • Anonymous
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  • 07 Feb 2024

Well, maybe the sandwich is in his head. Let's be clear, I'm using a mi 8 with pixelexperience and it's fantastic, I just needed to change the battery last year, and I believed that it gonna last at least another year. I would say: "why he is no clear and say is all for the money", but looking at the comments, and knowing what is happening right now, clearly there's people gullible enough to believe that they are "looking out for the consumer".
If you are one of the people that believes this statement make sense, I just wanna say this to you: you can change your phone every year. or every 6 months, I don't care, no one cares, but you are part of a bigger problem, nobody prohibits that you buy a phone every week if you desire, but this big companies are limiting and prohibiting to the users who didn't need that extra megapixel to use "their" phones for more time that they wanted. In the recent years our freedoms are being limited by this companies, and we are allowing this. Intrusive publicity, forced updates that break or remove functionalities, publicity in "premium" accounts and now demands and legally actions to prevent electronics to function properly for more than 3 years. And people applauding this terrible actions. The future looks terrible, unauthorized publicity in phones, tvs, refrigerators. We gonna need to change our washing machine every 2 years because an update that blocks the machine for "security reasons, and the wellfare of the user", you call for service and you are welcomed to an IA that doesn't understand your accent. This future is looking worst than any post apocalyptic nightmare.

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    • Anonymous
    • 3iK
    • 07 Feb 2024

    OnePlus died after the 7 Series. Anything that came up later was crap.

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      • Anonymous
      • fCA
      • 07 Feb 2024

      Anonymous, 07 Feb 2024Before Samsung made their 7-year promise, commenters here w... moreAnnd isn't it a good thing that companies now have started providing more support to their devices dear ?🤔

      It gives people reliability and allow people to have their phone for longer period of time with latest security updates.

      You know, number of people keep their phone with themself for many years.

      I recently gifted my 6/7 years old Mi A1 to a person in need and it's battery was giving me a whole day backUp.

      So what's wrong in having latest os and security patches for that period of time mate ‼️

        lewein, 07 Feb 2024bad analogy, you cannot compare phones from 6-7 years ago w... moreYes you can because the same principle works. 7 years ago the top end hardware was leaps and bounds above hardware from 7 years before that, like how it is in most industries.

        In the last 3 years even things like ray tracing hardware has become the norm in flagship chips and with it comes software that will only work with certain generations of hardware (take current RTX gpus, they dont work with direct9 or 10 games so have issues rendering them, hardware is simply not made to work with those standards anymore).

        Just seems like you dont really understand the concepts behind technology or how software works (i usually get taught coding and software development by my lead web dev mate and my 1st exs dad who was a software engineer for citi bank when i used to talk to him who was developing software since the 80s).

          Zeyad Elkholy, 07 Feb 2024Indeed, it is a very difficult step for Chinese phone devic... moreI was looking for the comment about fast charging.

          Granted, a battery swap would do it but OnePlus doesn't have as many official services to make battery swaps happen that easily compared to Apple, Google, and Samsung.

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            • Anonymous
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            • 07 Feb 2024

            WTF!? What kind of analogy was that? 😂 Now I’m hungry for a sammich. 🥪

              lewein, 07 Feb 2024I wanted to buy an OP, now i will not, it's not becaus... moreNothing to do with greed at all, probably based off peoples actual purchasing habits and the data from that. Most people get contracted phones (in the uk), they are 2-3 year contracts so MOST people upgrade their devices once the contract is up for renewal.

              Also when a phone is upgraded to a new android version A. most brands already have an iteration of a feature the new standardised android brought in (like ultraHDR or whatever to the gallery app) and B. doesnt delete all previous stored data so will start getting bloated at some point and sluggish (plus no hardware is staying healthy/not degrading in that amount of years and the new software WILL affect the hardware (most of the time because the software is optermised for newer hardware).

              I wish they'd atleast do 5 years for both updates and security, that would atleast please most people (and the ones that keep their phones for 5 years or slightly longer which is about 5% of the public if that), tbf its easy too install custom roms and offical security patches worst case.

              Plus its clear samsung is starting to monopolise the android eco system with google, linked at the hip now with all the deals they do so isnt suprising that google (who use samsung manufactured chips) and samsung BOTH now offer 7 years from their current flagships and onwards, clearly working closely even on the software front (and they can because they are FAR FAR richer than all other android brands.)

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                • 07 Feb 2024

                Here, a 4 year and 6 month old OnePlus 7 running smoothly on Pixel Experience 13 has been used since July 2019. OnePlus is a loser brand, cheap knockoff or hybrid of Oppo and Apple. They cannot provide software on time, they cannot fix major bugs in their current phones, and they do not have service centers in every tier-2 and tier-3 city like Samsung does.

                Even so, I can accept their incompetent to offer seven (7) operating system updates due to self-interest, but why are they still able to provide only four? Given how closely their Color OS fork builds resemble iOS, they could have provided 5 OS updates, just like Apple. Moreover, they could come up with the pledge to provide updates to all now-supported devices—from the newest to the oldest—on the vary same day. But they simply can't.
                How typical of OnePlus!

                  Anonymous, 07 Feb 2024Before Samsung made their 7-year promise, commenters here w... moreExactly. Its sad to see how even public opinion largely depends on opinions of corporations.
                  Its like people don't even think, but just say/believe what they saw/ heard somewhere.

                    Furkin, 07 Feb 2024If you can get OP units to last that long, you're luck... moreMay I suggest you Poco M6 5G?
                    Its the cheapest 5G phone at the moment, not even close to $200, and RAM goes as high as 8GB.
                    Plus, it ticks all your boxes: Dual SIM, Memory card slot is separate, 3.5mm jack is there.

                    Downsides are that it has a 720p screen, but its sufficient sometimes. You can choose M6 Pro, if FullHD screen is so needed.

                      rosesarerosie, 07 Feb 2024I don't really see any people using Galaxy S9, Pixel 2... morebad analogy, you cannot compare phones from 6-7 years ago with the ones from 2022, 23 and so on, nowadays the soc are far much better in performance and efficiency, don't believe the garbage that ceo is saying.

                        I wanted to buy an OP, now i will not, it's not because i want to keep a phone for 7 years, it's because of the greed of the company.

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                          • 07 Feb 2024

                          I've literally changed my Samsung galaxy S23 ultra CSC, to stop updates, still running UI 5.1...all apps get the security patches from playstore , specially bank apps ...not every Samsung update is good for your phone, sometimes they use as a "test" for upcoming devices
                          ...and the thing just gets slow, other times cameras gets blurry...as of it now I planning to make a review actually of UI 5 Vs 6 .

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                            • 07 Feb 2024

                            if the updates are comming reguarly every month, then we do agree for support only for 5 years

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                              • Anonymous
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                              • 07 Feb 2024

                              4 years passed or sooner all midrange phone will be as good as 1300$ with 7 years updates also cost 1/3 of Samsung flagship price..

                                DashF, 07 Feb 2024I disagree, everyone on internet says they have been using ... moreI don't really see any people using Galaxy S9, Pixel 2, Sony XZ2, P20 and Mi 8 phones, and mind you, these are all around 6 year old
                                People 5-6 years from now won't be using an S24 and Pixel 8, and they certainly won't be recommending them

                                  Sne4ky, 07 Feb 2024Translation: because they’re greedy bastardsSamsung? Yes absolutely that's why they purposefully slow down devices with longer update cycles so users won't hang to them longer. more than 5 OS upgrades is just a marketing trick 7 Years of patches seem more logical

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                                    • Anonymous
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                                    • 07 Feb 2024

                                    Vasra, 07 Feb 2024Real reasons: 1. cuts into our profits 2. We don't... moreBeats Samsung's crap theory

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                                      • Anonymous
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                                      • 07 Feb 2024

                                      Sam N8 808 owner, 07 Feb 2024I've used my Redmi 2 Prime much beyond its accepted ag... moreBefore Samsung made their 7-year promise, commenters here will mock you for holding on to your phone for more than 2 years.

                                      Now we see them preaching about the values of longetivity and replacement parts. 😂😂😂😂😂😂

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                                        • Anonymous
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                                        • 07 Feb 2024

                                        M4HESH, 07 Feb 2024I changed my S20FE 5G battery after 2 years. It's stil... more'Because none buys a new phone in less than 4 years.'
                                        This website's audience does. But suddenly, they are now pro-repair after Samsung's 7-year promise. 😂😂😂
                                        I love Samsung and their fans. They know how to do an about face and act like that's how they always did it.

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