Despite the fact that we love Android thanks to its multiple possibilities and its great freedom, the truth is that not all advantages are in the house of Google plus. Unfortunately, we’ve already talked about it more than once that it’s one of the weakest points of many Android brands the frequency and speed with which their mobile devices are updatednot only in terms of new Android versions, but also in terms of security patches.
Users of low or medium range phones suffer the most from this problem. While top-of-the-line devices often grab all the attention of their manufacturers, The cheapest terminals are usually forgotten shortly after takeoff. Unsurprisingly, many brands feel that investing time and money into cheap devices isn’t worth it.
That is why it is so important to know which brands update their terminals best and fastest. Because more than a billion Android devices are currently at risk of being hacked because they aren’t up to date, and it’s a risk we shouldn’t take, especially given the kind of information we typically carry in a phone case to save.
These are the least and longest running brands updating their Android phones
Despite the fact that there is still a lot to improve when it comes to Android updates, the good news is that the average time between Google plus sending out a new security patch and the brand in question adapting it to its devices has decreased compared to years before . Or what is the same The number of days a usuario has to wait to get a security patch is much less.
This is confirmed by the German cyber security company SRLabanna three news that resonate on the portal ZDNet and that’s the average wait time to get updates in the form of security patches reduced from 44 days in 2018 to 38.
Through this study, SRLabs confirms this Google plus, Sony and Nokia are the companies that update their terminals the fastest -we always talk about security patches- and Xiaomi, HTC and Vivo are the laziest companies. The point is that some companies have pure Android and few terminals on the market (the case of Nokia), so updating their devices does not cost them much, while others have a large catalog of teléfonos inteligentes on the market and that’s why it’s very difficult. have the latest cell phones. So Xiaomi is in the last places.
Now the conclusion is that despite the fact that the brands are changing the chips, there is still a long way to go. Although we usually pay attention to the hardware and the quality of the photos taken when we buy a new terminal, it is so important to know if a brand updates its terminals often and especially so quickly.