OnePlus chases the title of “Best Android OEM” with 18-day update time
The OnePlus 7 Pro. With a front that is nearly all pixels, there isn't much you can do to improve smartphone design from here. [credit: Ron Amadeo ]
If you haven't been paying attention to OnePlus, you should probably start. We've been calling the OnePlus 7 Pro the best Android phone you can buy for about the last six months. And now, in addition to the great hardware and software of that phone, you can add "pretty fast OS updates" to its list of positives. On Friday, OnePlus shipped the newly released Android 10 to the OnePlus 7 Pro and OnePlus 7, taking just 18 days after Android 10's release to update the current company flagship phones.
This is not the fastest Android update speed in the industry for a third-party-the Essential Phone and the Xiaomi Redmi K20 both got day-one Android 10 updates-but OnePlus' time is still pretty darn fast. OnePlus is one of the rare companies that seems to actually listen to the community, and it has been working to improve its update speed these last few years. 2017's OnePlus 5T took a middling five months to update from Android 7.1 to 8.0, but OnePlus majorly improved in 2018 when the OnePlus 6 got an Android Pie upgrade in 45 days. This year's 18-day update time is a new high mark for the company, and it's not that surprising after seeing OnePlus' increased investment in Android 10 preview releases this year. OnePlus released six Android 10 developer previews and two open betas for the OnePlus 7 and 7 Pro.
Android 10 brings a ton of improvements to the OnePlus 7 Pro. There's a better gesture navigation system with a more ergonomic back gesture, ecosystem-support for dark mode, a faster share menu, new emojis, a dual-boot option, and tons of security and privacy improvements.
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