On 2026-09-14 01:04, Almaz Mingaleev via tz wrote:
We stopped updating Android 10 devices only last month [1]
(i.e. 7+ years of support and 2026c was the last TZDB update they've
received)
It is more than "few years". Though the rest still applies.
I was impressed to see those tzdata updates for my circa-2018 Essential PH-1
phone, as Essential went out of business in early 2020. Luckily by then the
phone was running Android 10 (released by Google on 2019-09-03 and pushed out
by Essential the same day - those were the good old days!). So despite the lack
of support from the no-longer-existing OEM the phone got tzdata updates via
Android Pony Express containers until last month. Well done.
PS. I don't use this old phone for anything important like phone calls, and I
am too lazy to unlock its bootloader and install something like LineageOS to
boost its security. And of course not everybody has the means to buy a new
phone when their old phone is no longer supported.
