Some old Samsung phones are upgraded to improve GPS performance and improving the way geolocation works, which completely surprised many users.
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Despite the fact that the launches keep happening every month, the normal thing is that when you buy a mobile it will last you a few years, until it breaks down or until you decide to change it. With this update, Samsung maintains its old devices to give them more life.
It’s about phones like the Galaxy Alpha or the legendary Galaxy S6 Edge, which were among the company’s first Galaxy S with a curved display.
Some old Samsung Galaxy are upgraded
The Korean company releases an update for some phones that includes a new version of the security patch —in some cases—, in addition to improvements for GPS, whose use will now be more stable and accurate.
As they accumulate in XDA Developers, some of these devices no longer receive mandatory updates from Samsung and have become obsolete in terms of official software, so it’s great news that they’re getting news, however few. These are the mobiles:
- Samsung Galaxy Alpha.
- Samsung Galaxy S5 Neo.
- Samsung Galaxy S6.
- Samsung Galaxy S6 edge.
- Samsung Galaxy S7.
- Samsung Galaxy S7 edge.
- Samsung Galaxy S8.
- Samsung Galaxy S8 Plus.
- Samsung Galaxy Note 8.
As you can see, these aren’t new smartphones, far from it, so it’s an applauded move by Samsung. And it is that, although it does not update the software inside, facilitates its use.
If you have one of these smartphones with the official ROM, you can update it to receive these improvements, even if the mobile will not receive an update to its version of Android or One UI.
