Apps
Games
Phones
Even though Samsung partners with Google to make high-quality Android
smartphones and tablets, offering strong support for software updates, this
doesn't mean Samsung can keep updating all its devices forever. The company
from South Korea sometimes has to stop sending software updates to its very old
products that are no longer being made.
Four years after its release, the first folding phone by Samsung, known
as the Galaxy Z Flip, will no longer get new security updates. A website update
by the company, SamMobile reported, shows that from now on, the earlier version
of the Galaxy Z Flip won't get any more updates for its system or security.
This change, though, only affects the Galaxy Z Flip that connects over
4G. The later version, supporting 5G and released six months after the first,
will still get security updates every three months.
So, the 4G-only Galaxy Z Flip will stay as it is, with its software not
moving past Android 12 and the security updates frozen at January 2024's level,
unless Samsung decides to send out one final security patch before stopping
updates for good.
In related news, SamMobile also confirmed that Samsung's Galaxy S20 and
Galaxy Note 20 ranges would get fewer security updates from now on. Instead of
getting these updates every month, they will shift to a quarterly schedule.
This was announced in Samsung's April 2024 security bulletin, suggesting that
these models may only continue to receive updates for another half a year or
so.
Summing up, Samsung's Galaxy Z Flip’s first model will not receive
future updates, affecting only its 4G version, with the 5G model still on a
quarterly update track. Additionally, the Galaxy S20 and Galaxy Note 20 series
are moving to less frequent security updates, indicating a winding down of
support in the near future.
