Samsung is killing with its Android OS and regular security updates, however, it’s confusing enough that the Galaxy S10 has less support than the Galaxy A53. The former belongs to the flagship Samsung family, while the latter belongs to the mid-range Galaxy A lineup, but Android support is the exact opposite between them.
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The Galaxy S10 series was launched in 2019 with Android 9-based One UI 1.1 out-of-the-box. Going by the records, the Galaxy S10 is one of the best-selling smartphone lineups from the company, which also introduced the first 5G model in the range.
The standard version of the Galaxy S10 series with the lowest storage option was priced at $899 in the United States, huh, we got nothing for it, right? Well, it is not entirely true that Samsung did nothing for the Galaxy S10 consumers, but it is not satisfactory that mid-rangers have the same and more Android support.
Galaxy S10 Series
As mentioned above, the Korean tech giant launched the Galaxy S10 series with Android 9-based One UI 1.1. At launch, Samsung was commented to offer two OSes and three years of security updates. Later, the vendor raised the OS support bar from an initial offering of two upgrades to three.
At the Galaxy Note 20 launch conference, Samsung confirmed an additional year of OS support for the Galaxy S10 and Note 10 series devices. As per the revised policy, both these older flagship lineups have become eligible for another major switch in the form of Android 12-based One UI 4.
But, old is not gold in Samsung’s dictionary
In the same document, Samsung revealed that the Galaxy A51 and Galaxy A71 mid-range smartphones will also be eligible for three generations of Android upgrades, which is exactly similar to the Galaxy S10, Note 10, and even the Galaxy Note 20 and Galaxy S20 series.
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