6 years of Android version updates
Terrible headline. It’s not record-breaking even for Samsung.
It is for their non-flagship devices - those were always kinda left behind with software support.
for a budget device
Not less important. At this sort of lifespan the availability of parts becomes an important question.
And the ease of repair, too. I have experience repairing laptops and phones, but even so, a lot of phones are just too much trouble for me.
Historically, my phone batteries become nearly unusable after 3 years. Several of my old phones would still be usable (with extended support from LineageOS) if I could replace the batteries, but the labor cost is prohibitive. It doesn’t make sense to spend $200 on a battery replacement when the phone is barely worth half that.
The A1x series has always been very low budget, slow, etc, anyway, in 6 years the phone will be unusable.
but the software updates is never complete, only pixels provides full software updates regularly
Samsung never completed any of their software updates?