New mid-tier phone: Nokia G20

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#2720647 8-Jun-2021 11:23

robjg63:

Their policy is supposed to be OS updates for 2 years and security patch support for 3 years - which I gather they have pretty much been honouring.

Looking at this page (if you pop in the G20 model), it says "No guaranteed Security Patch updates after Jul-24" - so security patches definitely stop by then I suppose.

Based on my experience the OS updates and security patching is honoured. Unfortunately I just looked up my 6.1 and my 'no guaranteed security patch updates' was after April 2021. I didn't think I received a security update as usual at the end of last month :-(

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#2720648 8-Jun-2021 11:25

The only thing about frequent security updates is the mix of monthly update that are non-cumulative (an Android thing, not Nokia) and in-laws. My father-in-law has a Nokia that hasn't been updated since January 2020. Applying each one of 14 monthly updates, with a restart required between updates took me a couple of visits to their place. Lucky the roast dinner is always good.

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#2720652 8-Jun-2021 11:28

freitasm:

The only thing about frequent security updates is the mix of monthly update that are non-cumulative (an Android thing, not Nokia) and in-laws. My father-in-law has a Nokia that hasn't been updated since January 2020. Applying each one of 14 monthly updates, with a restart required between updates took me a couple of visits to their place. Lucky the roast dinner is always good.

When I first bought mine it was a few months old but feel your pain as seemed to take ages with all the sequential updates/reboots etc...

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#2720673 8-Jun-2021 13:04

freitasm:

The only thing about frequent security updates is the mix of monthly update that are non-cumulative (an Android thing, not Nokia) and in-laws. My father-in-law has a Nokia that hasn't been updated since January 2020. Applying each one of 14 monthly updates, with a restart required between updates took me a couple of visits to their place. Lucky the roast dinner is always good.

Interesting. I have a Nokia 7 Plus as my second phone and it will actually force updates - there is not way to use the phone before the update has been run. Both good and bad, nice to have it make sure the updates are run but bad because I can't see any pattern to when it will do it and it is not always a good time to do an update.

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