Articles tagged "Firmware Updates"

Samsung rolled out Android Pie for Galaxy A8+ (2018) over a week ago, however, the update was only rolling out in Russia. The company usually uses a single market as a sort of expanded soak test, before it begins global rollout. It seems all has...

HMD Global has so far done a great job of updating its Nokia smartphone lineup to Android Pie. The company has released this latest version of Android for a total of five smartphones this year which include Nokia 3.1, 3.1 Plus, 5, 6, and 8 Sirocco....

Asus rolled out Android Pie beta for ZenFone Max Pro (M1) and (M2) last month, and now the company has confirmed that it will release the stable build of Android Pie for these smartphones by April 15. In addition to those, the ZenFone Max (M2)...

Since last weekend, Samsung has rolled out Android Pie for three of its mid-rangers - the Galaxy A8 and A8+ (2018), and the Galaxy A9 (2018). Now its time for the A7 (2018) to get the latest version of Android. The Android Pie update that's...

Late last month, HMD rolled out the Android Pie update for the Nokia 3.1 Plus and now the turn has come for the regular Nokia 3.1 to get it. Unlike the Nokia 3.1 Plus, which got Android Pie later than planned, the rollout of Pie for Nokia 3.1 is...

The Redmi Note 7 is still fresh on the shelves and it's already getting an important update for the camera software. It adds the dedicated Night mode, which we saw in the Mi Mix 3 and the international Redmi Note 7 unit we reviewed a couple of weeks...

This past weekend, Samsung rolled out the Android Pie update for Galaxy A8+ (2018). And now, the company has started seeding this latest version of Android for yet another A series smartphone - the Galaxy A9 (2018). The update carries version...

The global version of the Samsung Galaxy Note9 received the One UI update based on Android 9.0 Pie in January and February and just this month, the carrier-locked version got the OTA update too. Even Brazil's unlocked handsets got it. But only...

Last week Honor rolled out Android Pie-based EMUI 9 update for the 8X in China, and the company has now announced that it will roll out this update for the smartphone in India from March 18. The EMUI 9 update will bring features like Digital...

Google may drop the first developer preview of Android Q anytime now, but there are companies like HTC that are still trying hard to roll out Android Pie. The Taiwanese maker has now announced that it will release the latest OS for three of its...

Lenovo's obsession with the Z5 leading up to the phone's release was definitely a sight to behold back in June. Clearly strong enough to fan the flames, sell-out initial stocks in the blink of an eye and top JD's top selling list. And then, just as...

The Pocophone F1 - known as POCO F1 in India - is receiving MIUI 10 stable update with February 2019 Android security patch. This update carries version number 10.2.3.0.PEJMIXM and weighs more than 550 MB in size. We don't know what else this...

The Samsung Galaxy A8+ (2018) that was launched back in December 2017 with Android Nougat is getting the Android Pie update with February 2019 Android security patch. The update is currently only available in Russia and there's no word on when it...

We received a tip from a reader in Brazil that the Samsung Galaxy Note9 with model number SM-N9600 has begun receiving the latest Android Pie/Samsung One UI update. Sure enough, Samsung’s changelog for this specific variant shows the update began...

A few days ago Huawei made the update to Android 9 Pie available to the Mate 9 family as well as the nova 2s in China, and today it's back with three more handsets set to receive the latest software, topped off with EMUI 9, the newest version of its...

Xiaomi devs have created a unified thread for all the features currently in development for MIUI 10 and MIUI 11, as well as a table of features that are under consideration. There aren't many groundbreaking features included, but at this point...

The Nokia 2 that was launched way back in October 2017 with Android 7.1.1 Nougat is finally getting the Android 8.1 Oreo update. This entry-level Nokia smartphone was initially supposed to get Android 8.0 Oreo update, but the company later...

Pocophone F1 - also known as POCO F1 in India - was launched last year in August with impressive hardware at an equally impressive price. Sadly, the smartphone lacked support for 4K 60 FPS video recording and back in January, the company said that...

Today T-Mobile has started sending out the update to Android 9 Pie to the Samsung Galaxy Note9 units it's sold. The carrier definitely hasn't been the fastest out of the gate with this release, but it's finally here. On top of what Google's added to...

Right on time, as it's the first Monday of the month, Google has today sent out the March security update for its Pixel devices. Except this time around it's not all about security, the company's phones should also be receiving some functional...