Samsung's New Phones Lack Seamless Updates Despite Android's Progress

TapTechNews July 11th, Samsung released the Galaxy Z Fold6 and Galaxy Z Flip6 yesterday (July 10th). Based on Android development tool information, neither of these two folding screen phones supports seamless updates.

Google introduced the seamless update function when it launched the first-generation Pixel phone in 2016. Although nearly 10 years have passed, Samsung still hasn't made up its mind to promote seamless updates.

TapTechNews queried public information, and seamless update is also known as A/B update, ensuring that a system that can be normally booted and used is retained on the disk during over-the-air (OTA) updates.

In this way, the possibility of the device not being able to start after the update can be reduced, which means that the situation where users need to send the device to the repair and warranty center for replacement and flashing will decrease.

Samsung released the Galaxy A55 phone in March this year, becoming the company's first phone to support seamless updates, but currently it seems that the Galaxy A55 is still the only Samsung phone that supports seamless updates.

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