Samsung is offering an update to the ancient Galaxy S series, even for a 7-year-old model?

Speaking of Samsung’s Galaxy series, it is a brand with generous update support among Android smartphones, such as promising up to four OS updates.

However, this time, it turned out that Samsung is providing firmware updates for several older Galaxy S series models that are well past the official update support period.

According to Dutch media, Galaxyclub, this time, the firmware update, G95 * FXXUCDVG4, has started to be provided for the 5.5-year-old flagship Galaxy S8.

This update, the file size is relatively large at 420MB, and the main content seems to be “improving GPS stability”.

However, it seems that security patches are not updated.

Also, the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge, which are older than the S8, are also being provided with similar updates, and in the future, the same update will be provided to the 7-year-old model, the Galaxy S6. .

This update fixes a GPS issue.

The Galaxy S8 series and Galaxy S7 Edge are handled by docomo and au in Japan, but it is unknown whether similar updates will be provided to domestic models.

However, providing updates to models that are not supported may be an important content. In that case, I think there is a possibility that an exception will be provided for the domestic carrier version.

sauce:Galaxyclub