The phone will stop getting security updates in less than 3 years. It will still be a perfectly good phone by then. The battery won’t even have degraded out of service life.
They deliberately choose to ship a device with an outdated OS. Plus, only promise 2yrs of security updates in other regions except EU which will get 5yrs of security updates.
Oh lawdy, a budget phone shipping with an OS SEVEN WHOLE MONTHS out of date at time of publication. Will the horrors ever end!?
Quick, someone bring me my fainting chair!
The phone will stop getting security updates in less than 3 years. It will still be a perfectly good phone by then. The battery won’t even have degraded out of service life.
5 years in the EU
If this means the device is usuable and reasonably secure for 5 years, this is fine.
Other than avoiding ecosystem fragmentation, I’m not seeing tangible benefits of running the latest android.
It precisely means that is not going to be the case.
They deliberately choose to ship a device with an outdated OS. Plus, only promise 2yrs of security updates in other regions except EU which will get 5yrs of security updates.
People need to stop buying this e-waste.
Well it would be fine if they actually planned to provide updates