The Galaxy Note 8 is now officially obsolete. Four years after the launch, Samsung has just announced the end of security updates on the smartphone. The Note 8 thus joins the Galaxy S8, declared obsolete a little earlier.
The Galaxy Note 8 will never receive security updates again. More than 4 years after its release on the market, Samsung’s high-end smartphone is officially obsolete. The South Korean giant has just updated the distribution list of security updates on smartphones in its catalog. The flagship released in 2017 no longer appears in the list available on the brand’s website.
As a reminder, Samsung had already stopped rolling out monthly security updates to the Galaxy Note 8 in October 2020. Since last year, the old flagship had to be content updates every three months. This is the last step before a phone is declared obsolete.
Samsung stops updates on the Galaxy Note 8
A few months earlier, Samsung stopped security updates on the Galaxy S8 / S8 +, two smartphones launched in the same year as the Note 8. Like the S8, the Galaxy Note 8 has arrived. after 4 years of software support which was listed in the Samsung User Manuals. Samsung has therefore kept its promises.
From now on, the smartphone will only receive an update only if a security breach is discovered. Moreover, the manufacturer had deployed a final update on the S8 in July, several months after the end of software support. The patch fixed a flaw allowing to spy on calls on 40% of Android smartphones,
Without regular fixes, the Note 8 is obviously less secure than Android smartphones which receive the security patch pushed by Google every month. However, the terminal should continue to function quite correctly. In a few months, it is the Galaxy S9/S9+ which will bow out. The two smartphones should reach the end of the guaranteed software support in the course of 2022.