One of the concerns or questions many people have about Chinese phones is “do they get updates?” The answer is some of them do as we can see here from the leaked photos of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean running on the Amoi N820.
While I can’t speak for the smaller brands big Chinesephone brands certainly do launchupdates for their phones. Xiaomi, Meizu and Oppo all launch regular updates and now Amoi are joining in to with a Jelly Beanupdate for the Amoi N820!
Amoi are expected to roll out the update to Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean on 20th October, however it’s not known if this will be an OTA update or one requiring owners of the phone to download and install the package from the Amoi homepage.
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Indeed, looking to buy either the Newman N1 or the ZTE v970 but wondering if any of these are likely to get an Android 4.1 and/or Android 4.2 update in the near future.
Suprised the Amoi N820 is getting one, but since the Newman N1 and the ZTE v970 are more supported on XDA I am thinking about getting one of those.
well i did order my newman and waiting for it to arrive
and the support on XDA is on of the reasons that i got this phone
but they say that android 4.1 is related to how much the newman company want to support it’s phone because even if someone on XDA wants to create a rom based on 4.1 he needs the drivers from newman company
but since Andi here have some friends in china, i think he can ask the newman company by email and tell us
Hi Andi I’ve been loving your blog and I read it daily. I’ve decided to purchase my first Chinese mobile, the HDC Galaxy S3 i9300 EX. Do these clone phones ever receive updates? Or is it only big manufatures that update their phones OS?