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Should I ditch Samsung Galaxy S8?
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this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2025
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Yeah, I meant that the manufacturer's support is pretty short. For example, mine has it for just 5 years, later ones extending it to 7. Minus whatever you have to wait until you can afford the phone, since they are egregiously, unaffordably expensive new. So... Without Lineage, it would still be spending quite a while without any updates.
I guess it's good that we're being spoiled by long update promises now, my Pixel is the first phone I've ever had that even has a support window, previously it's just been "one major update, within a year if you're lucky, and what the fuck is a security patch?"
Yeah, true - it absolutely is an upgrade from all of my previous phones that spent most of their life EOL) Sad that this is like this for the majority of people.