OnePlus 9 Pro just got a lot better — here's why

OnePlus 9 Pro just got a lot better — hither'southward why

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OnePlus just announced that information technology plans to support its flagship Android phones for three years with four years of security patches. This brings the company's update policy mostly in line with Samsung's, which is a major plus for OnePlus owners.

OnePlus' lackluster update track record in contempo years has led some to distrust the company. Now, OnePlus hopes to have addressed that for the most part. Only this is simply for its flagship series, not the Nord or Nord North lines.

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The timing is fortuitous, considering that I merely finished criticizing OnePlus and its software support plans in my iii month revisit of the OnePlus 9 Pro. I now take to reconsider some of my final conclusions, given this new data.

In a forum postal service, OnePlus says that it can now support these devices for longer because of the backside-the-scenes merger with Oppo. In fact, the OnePlus 8 series and onward (including all T and R variants) volition enjoy this longer back up. This means that 2019'due south OnePlus 7 series is coming to the terminate of its platform back up schedule, though.

Yous should note, all the same, that the Nord, Nord CE, and following Nord phones will still see two years of Android updates and three years of security patches. Nord N — including the just-released Nord N200 5G — phones will continue to see the laughably bad one twelvemonth of platform updates, though they have been upgraded to three years of security patches.

While that hope is all well and expert, OnePlus has typically been slower than Samsung and Google to release updates to its devices, specially on older and upkeep options. Another criticism is that you ofttimes need to run the Open Beta software to have the latest security patch. And let'south not forget some stability issues with updates recently, either.

Carrier models are another consequence entirely and they could encounter reduced support, depending on if the carriers play nicely. Nosotros can't error OnePlus for that, since the U.S. carriers are notoriously hard to work with sometimes.

We commend OnePlus for this new update policy, though you will demand to buy ane of the more than expensive flagship models to fully enjoy it. Still, information technology'south a big step in the right direction, making OnePlus devices even easier to recommend.

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