Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Andy Burns Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: Shortcut to Bluetooth Tethering? Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2025 11:31:44 +0000 Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net cMPgMhI94d3VD0ymHwuQWwuKPrht6yQZxtUb6RI1z3mFdAvLDG Cancel-Lock: sha1:6bQjPURiL7ecbqWEhuJ4SIE0rbo= sha256:ojmArIJZDtJZxsMpOGWaR6HCFoNqNQei9bMUoCxazvU= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.mobile.android:146246 Frank Slootweg wrote: > Carlos E.R. wrote: > >> Samsung phones use to have older Android versions, and sometimes they >> don't update the phone to the next version after being sold. And that >> update comes several months later, because they have to add again their >> customization layer. And in the case of Samsung, it is big. > > As you said, that *used* to be the case, but is no longer the case for > many years, at least 4+ years, but probably longer. My 4+ year old > Samsung Galaxy A51 lower-range phone came with Android 10 and was > updated to 11, 12 and finally 13. Isn't the reason for that improving due to introduction of Project Treble which allows the manufacturers to "slide in" newer versions of the lower layers of Android?