Android updates are more and more supported for longer and longer intervals of time on prime of the road, high-end, or upper-midrange gadgets throughout manufacturers, however lower-midrange and particularly entry-level telephones have it lots tougher. Qualcomm needs to do all it may to vary that, nonetheless.
The issuance of updates could be very depending on the maker of the chipset in your cellphone, as that firm has to nonetheless actively assist the SoC, and for many cheaper ones, the assist window ends a lot ahead of for costlier ones, maybe understandably. Even at increased worth factors, the cadence of updates is not all the time what it ought to be – month-to-month safety updates are solely supplied month-to-month by a handful of manufacturers, for instance.
So that is the place Qualcomm is available in. In keeping with Chris Patrick, SVP and Basic 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.
This 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 really 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 form of change the equipment for the 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 major 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 certainly to occur.
In fact, that does not imply issues will magically change for all gadgets immediately from the subsequent day, however this provides us some hope that updates will arrive in a extra well timed trend for all gadgets on the market.
