{"id":208568,"date":"2026-01-31T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/31\/motorolas-new-budget-phone-promises-zero-android-os-updates\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T13:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T18:15:07","slug":"motorolas-new-budget-phone-promises-zero-android-os-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/31\/motorolas-new-budget-phone-promises-zero-android-os-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorola&#8217;s new budget phone promises zero Android OS updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/01\/31\/motorola-android-os-updates-moto-g17\/\">Motorola&#8217;s new budget phone promises zero Android OS updates<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/01\/31\/motorola-android-os-updates-moto-g17\/\">https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/01\/31\/motorola-android-os-updates-moto-g17\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-31 12:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"9to5google.com\">9to5google.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Motorola is not exactly known for timely Android updates, but its latest releases in Europe don\u2019t even promise OS upgrades at all \u2013 with Android 15 out of the box being a cherry on top.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-703048\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, Motorola announced the Moto G17 for international markets, including Europe. The modest handset costs \u00a3149.99 in the UK and looks pretty okay for that price tag. It has a 6.72-inch FHD+ display, a 5,200 mAh battery, a MediaTek Helio G81 chip, 4GB of RAM, a 50MP Sony Lytia camera on the back (with a 5MP ultrawide), has a headphone jack, and comes in some fun colors too. The Moto G17 Power has the same core package, but with a bigger 6,000 mAh battery.<\/p>\n<p>But the software situation is an absolute mess.<\/p>\n<p>Motorola is shipping the Moto G17 duo with Android 15 out of the box, which at this point is very out of date. Android 16 was released in June 2025 \u2013 seven months ago \u2013 and is already on 7.5% of active Android devices. Shipping a brand new smartphone with Android 15 in 2026 is just wild.<\/p>\n<p>\t<span class=\"outbrain-ad-label\">Advertisement &#8211; scroll for more content<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Beyond that, Motorola promises just two years of security updates through early 2028, at least in the UK. But in Europe, it seems that\u2019s pushed out to five years per regulatory demands. As Android Authority points out, though,  Motorola is not promising any OS upgrades, just security updates. Finnish publication After Dawn, speaking to authorities in Finland, obtained a quote in which it seems the EU\u2019s regulatory wording leaves a loophole that would allow this, with only security, \u201ccorrective,\u201d and basic functionality updates required.<\/p>\n<p>In response to your question about whether operators\u00a0(smartphone manufacturers)\u00a0are required to produce new updates, our interpretation of the Ecodesign requirements is that they are not.<\/p>\n<p>However, operators are obligated to provide existing operating system security, corrective, and functionality updates for five years from the date the final physical&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/01\/31\/motorola-android-os-updates-moto-g17\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Motorola&#8217;s new budget phone promises zero Android OS updates https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/01\/31\/motorola-android-os-updates-moto-g17\/ Publish Date: 2026-01-31 12:30:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":208569,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/9to5google.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/01\/moto-g17-1.jpg?resize=1200%2C628&quality=82&strip=all&ssl=1","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[114,116,57,61,102],"class_list":["post-208568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-moto","tag-motorola","tag-security","tag-security-updates","tag-sony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208568"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208570,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208568\/revisions\/208570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}