Android O last update 3/3t will receive

[Premium1]

Wow talk about short term support... "never settle" yeah ok
Android O will be the last major version update for the OnePlus 3 and 3T, according to OnePlus' Head of Product

 

[jasonandrews25788]

they killed these phones!

 

[ByteMyAscii]

Disappointing move, given their own "reasoning" for dropping it early on the OP2.
They are doing the same on the 3/3t.

Their motto is actually proving accurate, never settle with an older phone when you can buy something new instead.

Lets hope 3rd party roms can keep them up to date for longer.

 

[fuzzylumpkin]

I don't actually expect the 3 to get O at all...

Let's be real though, if it does, that's two major platform updates, no less than you'd get from Google, and 18 months of support, that's above average I'd say. Not great but not terrible.

It sucks that phones don't get updated longer, but it is what it is...

 

[Sedp23]

Wow that's terrible

 

[ben55124]

Last *MAJOR* update. After N upgrade went out for 3/3T there were several stabilization updates -- so I would expect them to continue fixing any bugs with the O release. Were people expecting Android P for the 3/3T? No shock to me. 2016 phones with a P upgrade will be rare.

This may be a reason to stick with N on 3/3T. Wait and see if they release any bug fixes for O.

 

[anon(661246)]

Last *MAJOR* update. After N upgrade went out for 3/3T there were several stabilization updates -- so I would expect them to continue fixing any bugs with the O release. Were people expecting Android P for the 3/3T? No shock to me. 2016 phones with a P upgrade will be rare.

This may be a reason to stick with N on 3/3T. Wait and see if they release any bug fixes for O.

Exactly

 

[speedlever]

While I would love to see older but capable phones continue to receive OS updates past 2 major upgrades, the reality is that I'd have to move to iOS to obtain that.

I seriously considered doing that during my last phone shopping that ended up with me buying my first OP phone, the OP3. But the iPhone 7+/128 would have been pushing $1000 and iOS just didn't excite me that much. I'd rather get a new phone in 2-3 years than be pushing an old one even with fresh OS updates at that point. And besides, I see enough iOS on my iPad Pro.

I also saw my iPad mini/2 take a serious performance hit when it upgraded from iOS 9.x to iOS 10.x. so while older devices may be able to take the update, the day to day experience may suffer. Kinda like my ancient Pentium M laptop that I put Windows 10 on. It runs it, but boy is it slow!