Qualcomm Snapdragon Insiders Smartphones Are Still Using Security Patches From Six Months Ago

IT House June 14 news, last year, Qualcomm and Asus launched its first-ever smartphone, Smartphone for Snapdragon Insiders. As the name suggests, the phone is aimed at Snapdragon Insiders, a new community of Snapdragon fans and enthusiasts that Qualcomm announced last year.

The phone is designed and manufactured by Asus, which also handles distribution, sales and software support.For a $1,499 phone directly from Qualcommusers will certainly have high expectations, at least they should be able to get timely security updates, but now it seems that is not the case.

The smartphone aimed at Snapdragon fans hasn’t received new feature updates since March, and it’s even worse with security updates.The phone hasn’t received any security updates since January. That is to say, a top-of-the-line flagship from one of the world’s largest chipmakers, still using a security patch from six months ago. And at the launch, Qualcomm promised that the phone would receive “regular security updates for four years.”

It can be seen from the official page of Asus that from August last year to January this year, Smartphone for Snapdragon Insiders smartphones have new software updates about every month.According to Redditor u/hdoublearp, the last update was in March, although the changelog mentions that “updatedandroidsecurity patch”, but the level of security patch has not changed and the phone is still using the January 2022 security patch.

Unsurprisingly, the phone is still using the factory-installed Android 11 system, ASUS or Qualcomm have no word on when this phone will be updated Android 12 news.

Qualcomm and Asus are clearly remiss when a top flagship hasn’t had any security updates for months. In response to u/hdoubleharp’s Reddit post, a Qualcomm community manager said they would check with the team and “hopefully give you an answer”.