OFFICIALLY STOPPED !

[KaliBoy805]

 Samsung no Longer supports  GALAXY NOTE 20 ULTRA 5G  ,  Marking one of the best Iconic NOTE phones , never wanted to UPGRADED, because after 2020 Samsung removed SD Card slot , witch I rather have more STORAGE , but that's me, now it's been a week and I upgraded to the S25 ULTRA, and TBH it feels 😀 good getting a new phone , just wanted to share 😀 with you all , 

[meself]

Believe the s21 is at end of support soon also

[Spindle]

Planned obsolescense

[CEParsons]

5 years is a pretty substantial lifespan for a phone. They now offer 7 for the S24 series onward.

Is lengthening the support window planned obsolescence as well?

Is Samsung obligated to continue supporting every device they have ever made indefinitely?

[Spindle]

It should not have a locked bootloader, so that after support ends, it would be possible to install a third party operating system, like on a computer.

Samsung phones have locked bootloaders, causing any finite support window to be planned obsolescense. Increasing support from 5 to 7 years isn't planned obsolescense in itself, but is still delaying the planned obsolecense, if the bootloader is locked.

It doesn't have to be that way, some Google Pixels have an unlockable bootloader.

[CEParsons]

Knox is a key factor at play here. How would you suggest they allow bootloader unlocking without tripping the efuse and permanently disabling essential features post-install?

[Zero_83]

The Galaxy Note 20 Ultra was actually garbage not only that that camera was known to have an entirely all plastic camera casing with plastic lenses that if you even went out into the cold or if you stared at that camera wrong the camera array would crack... there was also so many other issues with that device it wasn't even funny that was one of the first times that Samsung actually released a new phone before an entire year was even over that being the S21 which was basically a phone that was to fix the s20 because it had so many problems they couldn't even fix it I remember people making fun of this completely and comparing it to Microsoft when they made Windows Vista and how it sucked so horribly that that they had to make Windows 7 because they couldn't fix Windows Vista and had the Remake it from the ground up that's pretty much what the S21 was a phone to replace the garbage that was the s20 that phone had so many issues

[TipsyTrex]

The Note 20 Ultra isnt the S20. Most of the fixes in the S21 were originally implemented in the Note 20 Ultra. And the S21 was released about 10 days before a full year was up. Weird rant considering how much was just plain wrong.