• Dave.@aussie.zone
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    7 days ago

    Oh lawdy, a budget phone shipping with an OS SEVEN WHOLE MONTHS out of date at time of publication.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!

    • limerod@reddthat.comM
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      7 days ago

      They deliberately choose to ship a device with an outdated OS.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.

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      7 days ago

      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.

      • _edge@discuss.tchncs.de
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        7 days ago

        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.

        • stressballs@lemmy.zip
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          If this means the device is usuable and reasonably secure for 5 years, this is fine.

          It precisely means that is not going to be the case.