The pace of manufacturer updates never ceases to amaze us, as sometimes news like the one we are dealing with pops up now. Samsung, the current market leader in mobile telephony, has just launched an update for two of their most popular phones. But they’re not popular now, they were years ago, because that’s when they were sold.
We are talking, to everyone’s surprise, of the Samsung Galaxy S8 and Samsung Galaxy S7. Two phones that are now receiving a security update that the manufacturer itself highlights as important. So, two years have passed since the second of them, the S8, lost its updates, both models come back to life to correct some flaws in their software
Two years later, the magic happens
As they say, both models stopped updating two years ago. More specifically, in the month of November 2020, the latest update was released for both, with an S7 which extended its maintenance time a little more. Since then, the two phones have remained unchanged but Samsung has decided to extend them a little longer.
And it does so thanks to the fact that it released, today, a new update for both phones. This update receives the version number G95xFXXUCDVG4 and that seems to be important, according to what Samsung indicates. Moreover, everything indicates that neither the S7 nor the S8 will be the last “old guard” models to receive similar updates.
So much so that it seems that the Galaxy S6 will follow the same path and will soon receive a new update. It is also indicated that the same will happen with the Galaxy S9, although these are already more modern and their configuration causes less surprise. The update, by the way, seems to fix a security issue with the GPS tracking system, so we recommend that you install it as soon as you receive it. If you have an active S7 or S8, of course.
Through | Sam-Mobile
