Samsung has now confirmed the feared bad news for millions of Galaxy users, as they fall further and further behind Google’s Pixel and other Android devices, to say nothing of Apple’s iPhone, its arch rival in the premium smartphone category. For those who have paid $1000-plus for a new flagship, this will come as a nasty surprise.

It's a problem that may be familiar to some Galaxy S10 owners. Samsung also released an update that broke the phone back in 2019 where users were asked to enter a PIN even though they never made one. Entering any PIN would cause the phone to reboot and ask for the PIN again. Similarly, the only fix was a factory reset.

Samsung has gotten a lot better about quickly releasing new Android updates, but it sounds like Android 15 will

The Android 15 rollout is taking longer than expected this year. It's October, and the update still hasn't hit any Google Pixel devices — not even the new Pixel 9 series. The same goes for Samsung Galaxy phones,