Pressured by Google’s Pixel 8 promise, Samsung seeks to extend its Galaxy S24 software support

Presently, Samsung updates more than 1 billion Galaxy devices each month and over 10 billion each year. It has honed its craft to the point that Samsung now releases security updates to both flagship and mid-range models before Google disseminates its monthly update to the Pixel line. As impressive as this sounds, Google’s latest move will require some type of response from Samsung.

At Samsung’s yearly developer conference held in San Francisco last week, the company’s Principal Engineer and Technical Program Manager of the Mobile eXperience Security Team, Shin-Chul Baik, said that Sammy has been discussing increasing security update support for longer than five years. He pointed out that Samsung has invested time and brain power to deliver timely security patches to more than 150 Galaxy devices worldwide.