Exciting news! Honor brand has joined the GRF program, offering 7 years of updates! Please consider adding iQOO 13 to the GRF program for 7 years of updates, ensuring long-term performance, security, and feature enhancements.

Honor magic 7pro

📲 Another phone brand just joined the elite '7 years of updates' club

HONOR just confirmed it's going to provide 7 years of Android OS and security updates to its Magic series, starting with the Magic 7 Pro. This makes them the first OEM to announce it will take advantage of the Longevity GRF program from Qualcomm and Google

https://androidauthority.com/honor-seven-years-updates-3529597/

https://www.androidauthority.com/android-longevity-grf-3493006/

Google announced a new program called longevity GRF earlier this year that makes it easier for chipset vendors to support their platforms for 7 years of Android updates.

Chipsets under longevity GRF can use the same vendor software through 7 years of Android OS updates.

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite is the first chipset to be part of the longevity GRF program.

What is Longevity GRF?

You’ll notice, however, that GRF only allows the vendor software to be reused for 3 Android version updates. At the beginning of this article, though, I mentioned how Google wants to enable 7 years of Android version updates, something that isn’t enabled under the current GRF program terms. If an OEM wanted to deliver a fourth, fifth, sixth, or even seventh Android OS version update to a device with a chipset that’s under GRF, the OEM would have to either pay the chipset vendor for extended support or undertake the colossal engineering effort of updating the chipset’s vendor software themselves to meet Google’s updated vendor software requirements for each subsequent release.

It isn’t unheard of for an OEM to do that, as there are multiple Samsung devices eligible for 7 major Android updates even though they’re using chipsets that are under the GRF program, but it’s very difficult and costly to do so. Google wants more OEMs to support 7 years of OS updates like Samsung and they themselves do, though, which is why it created the new Longevity GRF program.

Longevity GRF allows for a chipset’s vendor software to be reused for 7 Android version updates instead of 3. That means that a device launching with a chipset whose vendor software was built for, say, Android 15 can reuse that vendor software when it updates to Android 16 through 22. The recently announced Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite is the first chipset under the Longevity GRF program, which means that all the upcoming phones powered by it will be eligible to reuse the vendor software that Qualcomm originally built for it for 7 Android version updates after the chipset’s launch.

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