Android updates are more and more supported for longer and longer durations of time on high of the road, high-end, or upper-midrange units throughout manufacturers, however lower-midrange and particularly entry-level telephones have it lots more durable. Qualcomm needs to do all it may well to vary that, nevertheless.
The issuance of updates could be very depending on the maker of the chipset in your cellphone, as that firm has to nonetheless actively help the SoC, and for many cheaper ones, the help window ends a lot prior to for costlier ones, maybe understandably. Even at increased value factors, the cadence of updates is not at all times what it needs to be – month-to-month safety updates are solely offered month-to-month by a handful of manufacturers, for instance.
So that is the place Qualcomm is available in. In accordance with Chris Patrick, SVP and Common Supervisor of Handsets at Qualcomm, the corporate has been engaged on making it simpler for OEMs to maintain all of their telephones up to date.
Here is what Patrick instructed Android Authority:
It is rather sophisticated for a buyer — an OEM — to get safety updates, to get Android model updates, after which get it to each finish person. It’s truly very costly and really sophisticated. One of many issues we’ve been engaged on for the previous a number of years with Google and with the OEMs is to vary the construction of inline code — to type of change the equipment for a way we do these updates. You’ll see that, in a while this yr, we’ll make some bulletins about a few of these adjustments we’ve made to facilitate this and assist the entire ecosystem hold Android telephones nearer to updated.
Patrick says this has been a big concern for Qualcomm for some time, and so the corporate is planning to announce one thing to deal with it.
Sadly there are not any additional particulars, so we do not actually know when to count on such an announcement, however given the truth that Qualcomm is holding its annual Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii this October, we assume that is when it is most probably to occur.
In fact, that does not imply issues will magically change for all units immediately from the following day, however this offers us some hope that updates will arrive in a extra well timed trend for all units on the market.