Qualcomm is paving the way for extended update support from Android OEMs. The chipmaker is working with Google to enable recent premium smartphones to benefit from 8 years of Android updates. A record.
Are you going to change your Android smartphone soon, and aim for the Premium segment? If you buy your mobile in 2025, and it has one of the latest Snapdragon chips, it is possible that it will benefit from a record support for software updates. Indeed, the American firm Qualcomm and Google announce that they have collaborated on this issue.
A rapprochement that will allow manufacturers to provide support for major and security updates extended to 8 consecutive years. Unprecedented, while only certain manufacturers like Samsung have for some time aligned themselves with a support period of 6 years. And Apple offers for its part an average support of 7 years.
Qualcomm and Google unlock support for updates up to 8 years
In detail, Qualcomm should thus deliver two updates of the Android Common Kernel firmware. These are the key allowing manufacturers of devices under Snapdragon 8 Elite, but also those of certain devices under other versions of the Snapdragon 8 and Snapdragon 7 chips to offer their customers such a duration of support.
It should be noted that the announcement by Qualcomm and Google in no way forces brands to offer 8 years of updates on their device. It simply allows them to offer these updates without involving major internal costs. Which allows us to imagine that several major players will announce the move to 8 years of updates in a future announcement.
Our colleagues at Android Police also specify that this extended support for updates will probably only concern devices that will be launched later in the year. Although we can still hope for a gesture from the manufacturer concerning the Galaxy S25 or the OnePlus 13 which have just been released.
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