Or learn to root and rom and take your chances in the Wild Wild West of phone software.As for the final version, it's now live on the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), but expect the recently-announced Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro to come with Android 12 sometime after the Launch Event. Then choose the phone from the OEM with the best track record for updates and the network with the best track record for updates. If you must have the newest updates, the closer the phone is to Google, the better off you are. Verizon dragged their feet on updates, and the Verizon version has lagged behind the unlocked versions for months on new updates.
Unfortunately, they chose to release a Verizon version alongside the unlocked versions they themselves sold. Google made a promise (which I think they meant to keep) that this phone would get the newest updates first, for as long as reasonably possible. If you are not positive, you might not bother.Ī good illustration of this is the Galaxy Nexus. So, if you are, say, HTC, and you spend the money, time, effort, R&D to update this phone, you'll want to be damn sure that, say, Verizon will do their part of the job and then finally approve the new version. Furthermore, those in the process KNOW THIS. But remember, this process can be short-circuited at any step. If your phone makes it through these hoops, then BAM! New OTA software for you. THEN, after that, the carrier must test the new software stack to make sure it does not crash their network. These apps must be updated by the carrier AFTER the first two hoops have been jumped through. As the middleman, they likely demanded the right from the manufacturer to install some apps of their own. If you bought the Super Duper X Phone for $199, likely your carrier paid the other $400 that the phone actually costs, and plans to extract that money from you in an inflated-price 2-year contract. They also have the motive of planned obsolescence in selling new phones (if you loved the Super Duper X Phone when you bought it, but the new OS offers features you want that aren't available on the old one, you are more likely to buy the Super Duper X Phone II.)
If your phone is not a Nexus or Google Play Edition, the manufacturer of your phone must take the code released by Google and make it work with their drivers, their skins, and their addon software features (like gestures and such.) They may find it is not worth their effort. Furthermore, in the future, their motives may change. While they have good reason to include as many devices as possible, they sometimes can't, or have to make hard decisions not to for the purpose of new features. When Google releases new versions of Android, they get to determine the system requirements. **No.** For an Android phone to receive new updates, it must jump through several hoops.įirst, Google.
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