Android software updates have always been a bit of a meme. While Google is super-quick to push out new Android builds to its own Pixel phones, its partners — the likes of Samsung, Sony, Xiaomi, and LG — are slower to adopt them. This is because said companies have their own modification of Android working on their own specific hardware (multiple, multiple variants of phones, to be exact) connected to a ton of different carriers in different countries with different regulations.
Back to Samsung, though, the company may get even faster with updates in Europe over the following year. Apparently, Sammy has stopped using CSCs (Country-Specific Codes) for the software builds of its latest phones, effectively reducing the amounts of update builds it needs to make for a single phone by the dozens.
You may have seen the effects of region-dependant updates before — we hear that “some countries have started getting an update”, but we’ve no idea when it’s going to reach… well “Us”! Or a beta program that’s only limited to a few countries — a few others may or may not join in later, but again, it’s a spin of the wheel of fortune.
Presumably, now that Samsung is moving to more unified update builds, this should speed up the process significantly. Or, at least, that’s what the hope is based on.
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