Google And Qualcomm Promise Older Android OS Updates

JAKARTA - Google is reportedly collaborating with Qualcomm to present an operating system (OS) with a longer update period. Given that Android only gets OS updates 2-3 years after being released.

Reporting from Phone Arena, Friday, December 18, the plan is for Android phones equipped with Snapdragon chips to receive up to three operating system updates. This of course will make it easier for cellphone makers to prepare OS updates regularly.

"Qualcomm will support Android OS updates for the next four years. So that the Snapdragon 888 will receive support for Android 11, 12, 13 and 14," Qualcomm said in its official statement.

So far the Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 is the first chipset to support updates for up to four years. But going forward, both Qualcomm and Google promise to apply a similar system to several other chipsets.

Although, Qualcomm did not explain whether the OS update support is only available for high-end chipsets, or also for lower-middle-class chipsets such as the Snapdragon 4 and 6 series.

This seems to be needed by Google, because they only develop Android in terms of the operating system, while the matter of hardware is held by companies like Qualcomm, and of course cellphone manufacturers.

Unlike Apple, which worked on everything by themselves, both software and hardware. So they have full control of the devices they make.