{"id":51136,"date":"2022-06-15T02:12:11","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T02:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/qualcomm-snapdragon-insiders-phone-didnt-get-an-update-for-months\/"},"modified":"2022-06-15T02:12:11","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T02:12:11","slug":"qualcomm-snapdragon-insiders-phone-didnt-get-an-update-for-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/qualcomm-snapdragon-insiders-phone-didnt-get-an-update-for-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Qualcomm Snapdragon Insiders phone didn’t get an update for months"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
As a whole, updates in the Android world have gotten much better thanks to stronger efforts from smartphone makers in providing faster security updates. But, they aren’t all good apples. Qualcomm last year debuted its \u201cSmartphone for Snapdragon Insiders\u201d which held a hefty $ 1,500 price tag, but was left forgotten for updates for months.<\/p>\n
A Reddit thread last week drew attention to Qualcomm having left its Snapdragon Insiders phone essentially out to dry with no updates available. The last update arrived in March, and even then only delivered the January 2022 security patch, leaving the phone nearly six months out of date.<\/p>\n
That’s clearly an issue, and it raised eyebrows especially looking at what Qualcomm promised when the device was launched. In a tweet around launch, Qualcomm said that the Insiders device would get four years of regular security updates, with Android 11 out of the box.<\/p>\n
Nearly a year after that, the device still doesn’t have Android 12, but the perhaps bigger issue is that security updates aren’t arriving on that \u201cregular\u201d schedule.<\/p>\n