The period of August backmost successful 2020 marked 2 important milestones for Samsung. On August 5 that year, Samsung announced what would beryllium the past smartphones with the Galaxy Note branding — the Galaxy Note 20 and Galaxy Note 20 Ultra — arsenic the Korean elephantine decided to displacement absorption to its foldable phones.

The aforesaid day, Samsung also revealed that it would beryllium committing to supporting galore of its Galaxy phones and tablets (both flagship and mid-range) with 3 generations of Android upgrades. The Galaxy Note 20 and Galaxy Note 20 Ultra qualified for Samsung’s caller three-year upgrade policy, and, well, we thought we would punctual owners of these devices that with the Android 13 update, that argumentation has present expired.

The Galaxy Note 20 bid launched with Android 10 retired of the box, which means it volition not beryllium getting an update to Android 14 and moving connected beingness support, truthful to speak, going forward. Before Android 13 came retired for the Note 20 and Note 20 Ultra, those who owned either instrumentality had thing to look guardant to adjacent though the phones had been discontinued and taken disconnected the market.

But the travel has yet travel to an end, arsenic acold arsenic large Android OS updates are concerned. The Galaxy Note 20 and Note 20 Ultra volition proceed to get enactment though monthly information updates for astatine slightest different twelvemonth but volition not spot its Android mentation change.

No Android 14, but Galaxy Note 20 bid could get One UI 5.1

As for updates to One UI, Samsung’s bundle overlay for Android smartphones, we can’t truly beryllium definite if it’s the extremity of the enactment oregon not. It’s imaginable the Note 20 and Note 20 Ultra volition get One UI 5.1, which volition debut with the Galaxy S23 bid successful a mates of months, but we volition person to hold and spot whether that volition really crook retired to beryllium the case.

One UI 5.1.1, which is expected to travel the Galaxy Z Fold 5 and Galaxy Z Flip 5 successful the 2nd fractional of 2023, could besides marque its mode to the Galaxy Note 20 bid earlier it gets stuck with information updates, but again, there’s nary mode to cognize for definite astatine this infinitesimal successful time. Plus, these x.1.1 One UI mentation updates are chiefly aimed astatine foldables, truthful One UI 5.1.1 volition astir apt not beryllium a meaningful update for immoderate Note 20 oregon Note 20 Ultra proprietor adjacent if the 2 phones are eligible for it.

Thankfully, immoderate Note person who wants longer bundle enactment and entree to the adjacent mates of versions tin inactive get one, lone present it comes nether the Galaxy S Ultra branding. The Galaxy S22 Ultra is an fantabulous upgrade implicit the Note 20/Note 20 Ultra, though we would urge waiting for the Galaxy S23 lineup — peculiarly the Galaxy S23 Ultra — to get an authoritative motorboat earlier making immoderate decisions.

Of course, you tin besides take to support your Note 20 oregon Note 20 Ultra and proceed utilizing it with Android 13 and One UI 5 arsenic agelong arsenic you can. It’s not similar these phones volition abruptly go outdated and unusable conscionable due to the fact that they won’t get Android 14. Far from it, successful fact, fixed however large OS updates are no longer arsenic breathtaking arsenic they utilized to be.