There's no longer an excuse for late Android updates: If this tiny smartphone company can support Android P on the same day as Google, so can everyone else

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• The Essential Phone is the only Android phone in recent memory that has received Google's latest version of Android at the same time as Google's own Pixel devices. 
• It shows that there's no longer any excuse for Android phones getting Android updates several months after they're released. 

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Usually, third-party phones that aren't made by Google don't get Android updates for months after they're released.

Sometimes it's years, if they ever get the update at all. 

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