Yes, you read it right. I'm talking about the Galaxy Tab S2, a tablet that hit the market 5 years ago and which apparently the guys at Samsung have not forgotten. If we consider that last month the Galaxy S7, launched 4 and a half years ago, received a security update, we should not be surprised by this move.
As we can read in Android Police, Samsung has launched a new security update for the Galaxy Tab S2, a tablet that was launched on the market in July 2015, 7 months before the Galaxy S7 and for the moment it has reached the first place in the tablets distributed by Verizon, so it is a matter of time before it reaches the market. other models on the market.
This new update, whose firmware number is NRD90M.T818VVRS4BTJK and includes the security part corresponding to the month of October 2020. This movement is striking since this model is not found in the list of Samsung devices with the possibility of receiving updates.
The successor to the Galaxy Tab S2 was the Galaxy Tab S3, a tablet that hit the market in April 2017 and that It is not in the list of devices either with the option to receive security updates.
The only reason Samsung may have been forced to release a security update could be because a major security breach has been detectedThe only reason for the most committed manufacturers to release updates outside of their cycle, especially when a few years have passed since their completion.
Samsung announced in the middle of the year that all the devices that it launches on the market from this year, will receive 3 years of updates, equaling Google, the only manufacturer that until now offered the same period of updates to the devices that it launches on the market every year.