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Delaying system updates isn't without its caveats, though. This exposes my phone to potential security and privacy vulnerabilities for longer, and that's the major trade-off every user has to weigh. I'd rather have this risk than get into a buggy mess after every update. Fortunately, Google's shift toward modular releases means high-severity and critical fixes often arrive via Play System updates anyway. These background security patches bypass traditional monthly over-the-air update cycles without requiring me to install system updates. There are also in-device Android protection tools that c

We've accepted that yearly updates are normal in the smartphone space. We get a new entry in each smartphone range, and major operating system updates, too. They keep the mill churning, keep putting out new features, new upgrades, new reasons to buy, more reasons for stock prices to go up. What do we get? New stuff. It seems like a good bargain. Except it isn't working. Companies are running out of steam. Even worse, there were signs this would be the case from the very beginning. From the start, very few smartphone ranges changed every year. The tick-tock model meant we got a phone with minim

Motorola is infamous for taking ages to push new Android updates to its devices. Worse, even then, the final public release is riddled with bugs and issues. A wider beta program should allow the company to speed up the process and get more feedback from users to improve the final release. The move also puts Motorola closer to its rivals like Samsung and OnePlus, which typically run a wide beta program for their devices. In fact, Motorola is currently the only major Android OEM running an Android 17 beta program for its flagship devices. Samsung is still busy testing Android 16 QPR2-based One U