Ask Slashdot: How Long Do You Expect Your Smartphone To Last?

Long-time Slashdot reader shanen is facing “the death of another smartphone from acute battery swelling.” And he wants to know if you’re having the same problem: It seems to me that they’ve become quite good at designing smartphones to last two years and little longer, which is a bit worrisome since my primary phone is entering into its third year. Can…

Android OEM Patch Rates Have Improved, With Nokia and Google Leading the Charge

Security updates are reaching Android users faster and more reliably than in previous years. In research published this month, German cyber-security firm SRLabs said the Android patch gap has gone down from 44 days in 2018 to 38 days today. From a report: The term Android patch delay, or patch gap, refers to the time from when Google formally publishes a…