Samsung Stops Security Updates Of Four Old Galaxy A Series
JAKARTA - The older a cellphone is, the slower the company will provide security updates. Until finally the company actually stopped updating certain series. And that's what Samsung will apply to some of its devices.
Every year, Samsung releases a list of devices that still receive security updates for a certain period of time. This year, the South Korean company stopped supporting updates on its four smartphones.
The four Samsung smartphones that are no longer receiving updates include the Galaxy A3 (2017), Galaxy A7 (2017), Galaxy J3 Pop/Emerge, and Galaxy A5 (2017). Although all four devices made pretty good sales figures, the age of four is too old for the company to provide updates.
However, according to the security update document released by the company, there are other devices released in 2017 that still receive updates. These include the Galaxy J3, Galaxy J5, Galaxy J7, and Galaxy Tab A.
Indeed, different from other series updates, phones released in 2017 only get minor updates. This means that it is only updated when a user or developer finds a potentially dangerous security hole (bug).
Another bad news is that the Galaxy A8 released in 2018 is no longer on the list of devices that get monthly updates. Samsung makes the Galaxy A8 a device that gets updated every three months.
Meanwhile, even new phones don't guarantee that they will be prioritized for updates. Especially models that are priced at affordable prices. For example, such as the Galaxy A02 and Galaxy M12, which since they were launched for the first time, only received updates every three months.
For details, here is a list of devices that get monthly and quarterly updates. This list will run over the next few weeks starting this February. Summarized from the Samsung Mobile Security page, here is the list:
Device Models That Receive Monthly Security Updates
- Galaxy Fold, Galaxy Fold 5G, Galaxy Z Fold2, Galaxy Z Fold2 5G
- Galaxy Z Flip, Galaxy Z Flip 5G
- Galaxy S9, Galaxy S9+
- Galaxy S10, Galaxy S10+, Galaxy S10e, Galaxy S10 5G, Galaxy S10 Lite
- Galaxy S20, Galaxy S20 5G, Galaxy S20+, Galaxy S20+ 5G, Galaxy S20 Ultra, Galaxy S20 Ultra 5G, Galaxy S20 FE, Galaxy S20 FE 5G
- Galaxy S21 5G, Galaxy S21+ 5G, Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G
- Galaxy Note9, Galaxy Note10, Galaxy Note10 5G, Galaxy Note10+, Galaxy Note10+ 5G, Galaxy Note10 Lite
- Galaxy Note20, Galaxy Note20 5G, Galaxy Note20 Ultra, Galaxy Note20 Ultra 5G
- Model Enterprises: Galaxy A50, Galaxy XCover4s, Galaxy Xcover FieldPro, Galaxy Xcover Pro
Device Models That Receive Quarterly Security Update
- Galaxy S8, Galaxy S8+, Galaxy S8 Active
- Galaxy Note8
- Galaxy A2 Core, Galaxy A10, Galaxy A10e, Galaxy A10s, Galaxy A20, Galaxy A20e, Galaxy A20s, Galaxy A30, Galaxy A30s, Galaxy A40, Galaxy A50s, Galaxy A60, Galaxy A70, Galaxy A70s, Galaxy A80, Galaxy A90 5G
- Galaxy A01, Galaxy A01 Core, Galaxy A11, Galaxy A21, Galaxy A21s, Galaxy A31, Galaxy A41, Galaxy A51, Galaxy A51 5G, Galaxy A71, Galaxy A71 5G
- Galaxy A02, Galaxy A02s, Galaxy A12, Galaxy A42 5G
- Galaxy M10, Galaxy M10s, Galaxy M20, Galaxy M30, Galaxy M30s, Galaxy M40
- Galaxy M01, Galaxy M11, Galaxy M21, Galaxy M31, Galaxy M31s, Galaxy M51, Galaxy M12
- Galaxy Tab A 10.1 (2019), Galaxy Tab A 8 (2019), Galaxy Tab A with S pen, Galaxy Tab A 8.4 (2020), Galaxy Tab A7, Galaxy Tab Active2, Galaxy Tab Active Pro, Galaxy Tab Active3
- Galaxy Tab S5e, Galaxy Tab S6, Galaxy Tab S6 5G, Galaxy Tab S6 Lite, Galaxy Tab S7, Galaxy Tab S7+, Galaxy View2
- W20 5G, W21 5G
- Model Enterprise: Galaxy A8 (2018)