Galaxy S21 doesn’t support seamless updates, but is that a bad thing?

Samsung is crushing it right now with the Android 11 update for its smartphones and tablets. However, its latest flagship smartphones—Galaxy S21, Galaxy S21+, and Galaxy S21 Ultra—don’t support Android’s seamless updates. This feature has been present in Android smartphones since 2016, but Samsung is yet to implement it.

The Seamless Updates feature allows a new firmware update to be installed in the background while the device is being actively used. Upon the next reboot, the phone or the tablet boots the new firmware, offering users a seamless experience and not having to stare at the progress bar. This feature is implemented using virtual A/B partitions, and that takes up a lot of storage space. Samsung’s One UI software is already quite huge, so not having the Seamless Updates feature is an advantage as well.

Last year, the Android 11 Vendor Test Suite was spotted with Seamless Updates being a requirement for smartphone vendors. However, the latest version of the Android 11 Compatibility Definition Document doesn’t list Seamless Updates as a requirement. However, Google still tells smartphone brands to implement Seamless Updates, and brands like Google, Motorola, OnePlus, and LG smartphones come with the feature.

With the microSD card slot gone from its latest flagship smartphones, do you still think Samsung should implement Seamless Updates at the expense of lower usable internal storage? Let us know what you think in the comments section below.

Galaxy S21

• Model: SM-G991B
• Dimensions: Bar: 151.7 x 71.2 x 7.9 mm
  
• Display: 6.2 inch / 157.48 mm Dynamic AMOLED 2X
• CPU: Exynos 2100
• Camera: 12MP

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Galaxy S21+

• Model: SM-G996B
• Dimensions: Bar: 161.5 x 75.6 x 7.8 mm
  
• Display: 6.7 inch / 170.18 mm Dynamic AMOLED 2X
• CPU: Exynos 2100
• Camera: 12MP

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Galaxy S21 Ultra

• Model: SM-G998B
• Dimensions: Bar: 165.1 x 75.6 x 8.9 mm
  
• Display: 6.8 inch / 172.72 mm Dynamic AMOLED 2X
• CPU: Exynos 2100
• Camera: 12MP

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Exynos processors with AMD GPUs could come sooner than expected

Samsung had announced earlier this month that its next-generation flagship Exynos processors would feature AMD GPUs. It was being expected that those upcoming processors would be launched sometime in the first quarter of 2022 with the Galaxy S22. It is now being rumored that Exynos processors with AMD GPUs could come much sooner.

AMD and Samsung had announced their strategic partnership back in 2019. According to @UniverseIce, Samsung will launch its next-generation Exynos chipsets with integrated AMD GPUs in the second or third quarter of 2021. So, we could see them inside the Galaxy Z Fold 3. Moreover, he also mentioned that the next Exynos 2xxx and Exynos 1xxx chipsets would use AMD GPUs. However, he also mentioned that the launch time frame of the upcoming Exynos processors could change in the future.

The South Korean tech giant’s Exynos processors have been criticized a lot in the past for their poor power efficiency and thermals. Since then, the company disbanded its custom CPU core development team and went with ARM’s Cortex-X1 and Cortex-A78 CPU cores. To improve its graphics performance, the company will use AMD’s mobile Radeon GPUs.

The recently released Exynos 2100 processor appears to perform similar to Qualcomm’s latest flagship processor, the Snapdragon 888, in CPU, AI, and image processing. However, its GPU is somewhere in between the performance of the Snapdragon 865+ and the Snapdragon 888. Samsung is trying to sell Exynos chipsets to other smartphone brands. Vivo has already used the Exynos 1080 in the X50 and the X50 Pro.

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