Motorola kommt dank Gesetzeslücke mit null Betriebssystem-Updates davon | Die neuesten Budget-Telefone von Motorola in Europa bieten keine Android-Betriebssystem-Upgrades, aber wie?
https://www.androidauthority.com/motorola-eu-software-updates-loophole-3636627/
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Must be good for their business… nobody will buy their phones
Why isn’t there a universal Android version like Windows or Linux?
It’s not „getting away with“. They are still going to provide years of security updates.
These are specifically cheap phones. It’s likely that the hardware may not even get the necessary updated drivers for a full OS update, and even if they did, it is likely that it would impact performance.
Ensuring that the existing OS that works well is kept secure, and keeping the price low (OS updates are *expensive*), is ideal for these devices.
This imho makes devices like the £150 Moto G17 obsolete compared to it’s peers in the same bracket, like the Galaxy A16 5G & Redmi Note 15, both of which can be had cheaper & offer 4yrs of software updates
Motorola one of the top ICE contracts according to Forbes. Moto can kick rocks
I have the top of the line Thinkphone and since upgrade to A14 there was no security update whatsoever.
I love Motorola phones, but I am already looking elsewhere for the future.
I have a spare Motorola G Play 2024 on AT&T and I swear it gets software updates like once a week. It’s actually really annoying because it will pester you until you do it. A week after I bought it I got a OS version update too.
(Location: USA)
I think most people saw this coming. It’d be silly to think these companies won’t try to navigate through loopholes to bypass the new EU regulations.
I had a new huawei phone back in 2019. Just before the google ban and all that. It was a Y7 2019. For the 3 years i had it, it didn’t receive a single os update, stuck on android 8.1. The Y6, the cheaper variant, got android 9.
My brother had a cheap galaxy a10 during the same time. He went up to android 10 or 11 with that phone. Let’s just say i never bought huawei again after than, even though for the money it worked quite decently (especially the cameras!)
(Moved to samsung thanks to the friendly os and plenty of updates)
why do you want an upgrade? the OS supports all the hardware features the phone will ever have, and security will get upgraded if it’s serious enough.
I’m done with motorola. They once seemed like the hip cool dude making acceptable phones with a purish version of android, but I recently needed to claim a warrantly and discovered how shitty of a company they truly are.
Finding out they’re trying to circumvent very basc laws meant to reduce electronic waste, is just par for the course, I guess.
That’s the reason my latest phone upgrade was away from Motorola. Same shit here in a non-EU country.