Does Android upgrades actually improving?

Every time we are coming across new versions of android, the up-gradation is much faster compared to past.

This is the reason, why every mobile manufacturer are releasing new phones saying they have an updated software, they're nevertheless improving and making strides toward a more reasonable standard.

So are they really improving ???? If so, then on what basis ???

In fact we should understand what's new in the new version, thats going to change the actual productivity. When I say productivity, I mean performance side and their actual usability in real world.

But the answer, in a line : It's complicated to yes or no . Let's analyse and let you answer at the end ....

Android upgrades: All flagships are not equal

One thing folks frequently forget when talking about the state of Android upgrades is that there are two separate fronts we have to consider — the current-generation flagship phones, at the time of an upgrade's arrival, and then the previous-gen flagship phones alongside .

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As a general rule, Android device-makers commit to providing updates for two years to top-tier devices, which means those year-old phones are every bit as important as their more recent siblings. But since they tend to be less top of mind in terms of mainstream media attention, they also tend to be where companies cut some disconcerting corners.

We'll start with the relatively positive news, though, specific to those current-gen flagships: On that front, with Android 10, we saw some genuine, heartening improvements from a few different sources.

We'll talk more about Treble in a moment, but first, two other players show noteworthy improvements in their current-gen flagship upgrade performance: Samsung, which shaved its delivery time down from 213 days with Oreo to 177 days with Pie and then 106 days with Android 10 — and LG, which for the first time ever got a bit better this year by going from 298 days for last year's upgrade to 129 days for this one.

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But, well, when you look at the big picture, you quickly realize that neither of those is actually that grand of an evolution. First of all, taking 100-plus days to get a major operating system update into the hands of a company's highest-paying customers is in and of itself nothing to celebrate. But even relatively speaking, Samsung is simply returning to the level of ho-hum performance it showed back in 2014, with Lollipop. And LG isn't even quite touching its 2014 level of mediocrity.

Neither company is achieving new ground, in other words; it's just coming down from an embarrassingly bad four-year run and going back to the same underwhelming performance it pulled off five years ago. So does that really qualify as "getting better"? I guess it depends on your perspective.

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As for HTC and Motorola, neither has delivered an Android 10 update to any current-gen flagship yet, so it's impossible to say anything concrete — but even if one or the other does manage to do a bit better than last year, the standard for improvement is so laughably low that it won't mean much. And taking more than six months to send software to users is certainly nothing to write home about, regardless.