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Is it 5 years of Android updates or 5 years of security updates?

For both Google and Samsung, security updates.

Google says "Feature drops for at least three years from when the device first became available on the Google Store in the US." on the shop page footnotes.

Samsung says you get 3 major Android updates on your devices. Therefore, Samsung is a better deal for updates assuming Google doesn't release a new major Android version every year.

Does Samsung still take an eternity to do the actual updates once they're available from Goog?

A couple of months for sure.

Security updates, I am afraid. At least that's what the launch video said.

Security updates (only) is fine. Except a few geeks, nobody I know cares what Android version she has.

Especially since lots of components are updated outside Android updates. The browser and many other things will keep on being updated independently.

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