Longer than the iPhone: the Samsung Galaxy S24 will get updates for 7 years - to Android 21

At today's presentation, Samsung unveiled its new flagships Galaxy S24, Galaxy S24+ and Galaxy S24 Ultra. But perhaps the main news of the event was an increase in the support period for the new products.

Here's What We Know

Samsung speakers officially announced that all 3 models of the Galaxy S24 lineup will receive updates for 7 years. And we are talking not only about security patches, but also about major operating system updates.

Since the smartphones come with Android 14 "out of the box", they can count on Android 21 (whatever this version of the operating system is called). That is, if you buy a smartphone in 2024, you will continue to get updates in the 30s.

Previously, Samsung offered its flagship devices 4 years of major Android updates and 5 years of security patches. For a long time, this was the best policy in Android until Google introduced the Pixel 8 series last year with 7 years of major updates.

Now both Samsung and Google are now ahead of their main competitor, Apple, which tends to support iPhones for about 6 years, give or take depending on the model.

By the way, the gg editorial staff has already shared their first impressions of the new products.