Fairphone released Android 9 for its 6-year-old Fairphone 2. It had to work around many issues to bring the update to the phone as it lacked support from Qualcomm whose chip is used on the phone.
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Samsung's promised system update for its Galaxy M series seems to have started rolling out a bit sooner than expected. Reports suggest that Galaxy M30 users have started receiving Android 9.0 updates.
After a couple of weeks without major new updates for its phones, HMD Global has resumed its rollout of Android Pie updates. This time, it's the entry-level Nokia 3.1 that's getting its serving.
With the announcement of Android 9 Pie a few days ago, Google has also released a new Kotlin-friendly SDK, which contains nullability annotations for popular APIs, resulting in more stable apps.
