Galaxy Note 9 may launch four days after Android 9.0 P goes official

Concluding updated: August 3rd, 2018 at 14:58 UTC+01:00

Anybody knows Samsung's Milky way Annotation flagships are released with an older version of Android around the aforementioned time the newest version is officially released by Google. Just this twelvemonth, Samsung may be cutting information technology extremely close, if a rumor virtually Android 9.0 P's official release is true. According to evleaks, Android 9.0 volition debut on August 20. That's four days earlier the Milky way Note nine is going to hit retail shelves.

Galaxy Annotation 9 and Android 9.0 debut may happen effectually the same time

Is Samsung wrong to non look for the newer version of Android to be released and offer information technology on its new Note flagship? Well, not exactly. Google releases a major new version of Android every twelvemonth, and OEMs tin can't keep up since they also need to consider other aspects, such every bit the right time for launching a new flagship so sales aren't affected. Waiting for Android 9.0's debut would mean Samsung would take to launch the Notation 9 sometime after September, which would put it in directly competition with the iPhone.

Information technology would also crave delaying the launch of the next Milky way Due south flagship, which will ultimately lead to a reshuffling of Samsung's flagship launch schedules. Not to mention that if the Galaxy Note flagships start coming out later with the latest version of Android, it would simply mean that it'south the Galaxy S flagships that would kickoff launching with an older version of Android, so there's no real solution. And, well, regular consumers don't exactly care equally much about software updates.

It's withal disappointing, of course, that the Notation 9 will run Oreo when it goes on sale, so we can only hope Project Treble does its magic and helps Samsung be quick about getting Android 9.0 ready for its devices.

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