The issues that users experienced with the previous-generation flagships have been addressed in the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9 Plus. This would include the placement of the fingerprint scanner and other problems that have now been sorted out. Unfortunately, Samsung’s reputation when it comes to rolling out software updates after painfully long periods is still there.…
The issues that users experienced with the previous-generation flagships have been addressed in the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9 Plus. This would include the placement of the fingerprint scanner and other problems that have now been sorted out. Unfortunately, Samsung’s reputation when it comes to rolling out software updates after painfully long periods is still there.
To add insult to injury, the latest update we’ve come across is that despite their high price tag, the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9 Plus do not provide support for Android’s seamless updates. Google introduced a feature called seamless updates, which was a part of its Android 7.0 Nougat release. Both, the Galaxy S9 and the Galaxy S9 Plus come with Android 8.0 Oreo pre-installed, and they even support Project Treble .
Both the Pixel and Pixel XL were the first to come with Android 7.0 and seamless updates, but even after becoming practically the complete Android smartphone family, the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9 Plus have still not received it and that is a shocking bit to swallow. Lots of users might not care about these seamless updates but some enthusiasts actually care about their devices receiving the latest software and security updates.
Android seamless updates are also called A/B updates and allow an OS update to your phone to install in the background while you’re still using the device. Once the update has been completed, all you need to do is simply reboot your device, and the entire process is completed.
Seamless updates can easily scale down the time it takes for the phone to get updated. Your phone’s downtime would be reduced from 5 minutes to 30 seconds but the problem is that lots of manufacturers, including Samsung, are still not adopting it.
Samsung might not think this bit requires the company’s attention. This is because implementing seamless updates requires a change to Android’s traditional storage partitioning system, and this is something that might consume more energy, time and resources for a company like Samsung.
A/B updates also end up using more storage since you have two instances of the OS installed on the device. Finding more internal storage on smartphones is a common thing these days, so we cannot understand why would Samsung not provide support for it. Perhaps if the company starts to reduce the amount of bloatware on its devices, the decision for the company would become much simpler.
