Time doesn’t pass in vain even for mobile phones and when you least expect it, you find that your smartphone has been left out of the game. This is what happens from today to all those who have a OnePlus 6 or a OnePlus 6T in their hands. Two emblematic smartphones of the brand that say goodbye to updates forever.
Phones that were presented in May and October of the year 2018, so more than 3 years have passed since they were released. The brand that offered at that time 2 years of full updates, recently changed its mind, to extend the number of updates for OnePlus smartphones and offer three years in the high range, along with a maximum of 4 years of security updates. . Something that these two models have come to benefit from.
They were born with Android 8 and OxygenOS 5.1
Those versions with which the two models reached the market sound very distant, which have been able to go through Android 9 and the arrival of OxygenOS 9, to balance the numbers. Then it was the turn of version 10, followed by Android 11 and OxygenOS 11 . Version in which they end up officially dying, as OnePlus itself has confirmed through a message on its blog.
In it we can read the gratitude to all those who have ever tried and helped these smartphones for the more than 60 beta updates that have been developed. Two smartphones that have not been far from controversy, since the problems have been noticed practically after each major update. In that same publication where the latest stable OTA for the OnePlus 6 was released, we can even read the occasional error with the screen brightness.
The brand has tried to say goodbye with a polished update and among all the opinions that we can read, we see that they are widely happy with the performance of mobile phones today. We remember that they have a Snapdragon 845 processor and Amoled screens, in addition to a dual camera with 16 and 20 Mpx, intended as the main sensor and for portrait mode, when the wide angle had not yet come into our lives.
What if I have one of these OnePlus?
In case we are the owners of one of these two OnePlus mobiles and use it as the main device, we must take some things into account. The terminal will continue to function as it has up to now, the only thing that will change at first is that we will not continue learning about new features for the operating system and little by little we will become outdated.
What you can not worry about the most is security, since OnePlus will not send more patches that correct gaps and errors. This means that we have more chances of a virus sneaking into our smartphone. Being more careful not to download any files and install apps only from Google Play should be enough, for a while.
Later we can think of continuing to support our mobile through ROMs that will allow us to update the mobile and continue to take advantage of it, but that requires a series of knowledge.
