SAMSUNG has announced that it will stop producing one of its highest selling models.
The Samsung Galaxy S10 is officially retired from the tech fleet and is expected to stop getting security updates.
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Samsung updated all phones made before 2019 with operating system (OS) updates guaranteed for three years.
The company also gave all phones four years of security patches.
The Galaxy S10 came out in 2019 – all S10s have received their final OS and security updates.
The phone originally operated on Samsung’s Android 9.0 Pie system.
The latest update, in March 2023, fixed a vulnerability in the phone’s modem.
Without the latest patches, phones will become more susceptible to malware and spyware.
The Galaxy S10 5G and S10 Lite were developed months after the S10 and will get one more OS update and security patch.
The upcoming quarterly patch for the 5G and Lite versions will be their final before they are also retired.
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“Newer Samsung phones are promised five years of security patches, so you may want to consider upgrading to them from your old Galaxy device,” Android Police reports.
CHANGES AT SAMSUNG
The S10 update comes exactly one year after sunsetting the S9 in March 2022.
Samsung changed their update policies for newer phones.
Now, all Samsung phones get four years of OS updates five years of security patches.
Along with the S10, the company announced a complete sunsetting for the Galaxy A30 and A50 phones.
Neither the A30 or A50 will receive new updates, according to Android Police.
For shoppers willing to look past the phone’s unsupported nature, The U.S. Sun found affordable S9 models on sale at Target.
