Weekly poll: Does your phone have Android 15 yet? Does that matter?
- DarlingYext
- 6mM
- 20 Apr 2025
Which one? No, but seriously, 2 of them do, the rest don't and that's fine.
"..do you care whether you are running the latest version or are you happy with just the latest security patch?"
I care about neither. Smartphones are secure and work perfectly without either of those, unless the USER themselves makes a mistake, in which case the latest OS and security patch can't help either.
"Is it important that all new releases arrive on schedule.."
If the device is one that supports the latest version and is confirmed to get it, then yes, otherwise no.
- H
- Hello
- 7k0
- 20 Apr 2025
Yes it did, even though realme stopped supporting this device at Android 13. But I and a few other handful developers still maintain custom roms for my phone.
So we are currently at 15, and soon would be at Android 16, when that comes.
Reason to buy devices with friendly bootloader permissions.
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- Darth Caesium
- sXM
- 20 Apr 2025
Yes and yes. This is one of the only advantages of owning a Google Pixel. Updates are almost always delivered in a timely manner, and I care about that because there's always something in a new Android release that is useful to me. Even the relatively lackluster Android 15 was important for me because it introduced app archiving, something which I use.
- K
- Kashyap03
- 7kp
- 20 Apr 2025
I have Android 14 or OneUI 6.1 and it works pretty good and is able to make a call to my mom when I search mom in contacts so it's pretty good imo 👍
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- Anonymous
- BiP
- 20 Apr 2025
Best for Samsung to skip A15 and focus on A16 asap.
- ?
- Anonymous
- gnh
- 20 Apr 2025
kdss, 20 Apr 2025Yes. I don't have Samsung. 🤣I have a Samsung, it runs android 15 🤷🏻♂️
- PureOS
- Mx}
- 20 Apr 2025
It doesn't matter until u get security patches. And even without them, phone will work normal. But manufacturers need to polish current version on maximum, not just let it with existent bugs.