Research shows Nokia phones received Android 9 update fastest

Only 1/3rd of smartphones across the globe have been updated to function on the latest version of Android’s OS according to a whitepaper by researchers at CounterPoint technology. This is important since since ‘many of the key features including battery life, processor,camera and memory are linked to the performance of the underlying operating system’ according to the firms Research Director, Peter Richardson.

The firm, which studied the topic, produced a whitepaper on it last week showed that Nokia leads among all the other smartphone brands in updating its phones the fastest. According to its findings, 96 per cent of the Nokia phones sold after Q3 of 2018 work on Android Pie 9. The brand effectively leads the market followed distantly by Samsung and Xiao