Samsung Galaxy Note 8 was launched last summer by the Samsung company for customers around the world, the phone arriving on the market with the Android 7.1.1 Nougat operating system. When the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 was launched, Android 8 Oreo it was only a month away from the launch, and many Samsung customers were expecting the new version of the operating system to be officially offered by the manufacturer.
Samsung Galaxy Note 8 has only today, in almost April 2018, the update for Android 8 hours available, that is, almost 8 months away from the moment when it was launched by the Google company. Samsung needed almost 8 months to offer the latest version of Android on the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 phones, the most expensive of its range when it launched them on the market for interested customers.
Samsung Galaxy Note 8 – Android 8 Oreo and the stupidity of waiting
The Samsung Galaxy Note 8 and the situation it is in shows that Samsung and the Android platform have a huge problem, and as an exercise in imagination, think if you had bought the iPhone X and could have installed iOS 11 only now. Apart from the fact that it's stupid that the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 didn't have Android 8 Oreo ready for release right after Google published the final version, it's even stupider that it took 8 months for it.
The Samsung Galaxy Note 8 is still not the only phone in this situation, because in the case of the Samsung Galaxy S8, a similar period of time was needed for this update to be officially offered. Yes, customers could install Android 8 Oreo unofficially on the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 with various programs, which of course voided the warranty because the software is unauthorized, but what does it say about Samsung that its premium phones only have the latest version of Android 8 months after launch?
