Honor has announced the commitment to provide seven years of Android OS and security updates to its latest Magic Series devices, including the Magic 7 Pro honor.
The movement puts online the flourishing smartphone manufacturer with Apple, Samsung and Google, all of which provide seven years of software and security updates to their respective flagship phones (Apple promises at least five years of updates, but the company regularly tends to previous generation iPhones beyond that period).
Previously, honor phones were generally supported with five years of updates. The best honor phones of 2024, namely the honor Magic 6 Pro, Honor Magic V3 and Honor 200 Pro, will remain subject to this original commitment, with the recently launched Magic 7 pro becoming the first beneficiary of the company’s new position.
“By guaranteeing long -term software and safety updates, Honor provides the owners of the MAGIC series for the confidence that their devices will remain updated, safe and rich in functions, maximizing the value of their investment and extending the useful life of the devices,” said honor in the statement that accompanies the announcement, which was made in MWC 2025.
It is clear, then, that the measure is both an exhibition of the honor faith in the longevity of its smartphone hardware as a commitment to sustainability (the brand aligns with the circular economy of the EU and the ecodesign regulations).
Do smartphones need seven years of updates?
I think the answer to that question has changed since Apple began offering seven years of updates to their iPhones (Google and Samsung began to do it more recently), although I suspect that OnePlus would not agree.
Unlike those brands (and now honor), OnePlus has committed to offer four years of operating system updates and six years of security patches to its last flagship device, the OnePlus 13, with OnePlus Coo Kinder Liu saying in a 2024 interview that the longest update policies “are lost the point” if the hardware they apply becomes outdated. Of course, that is read as your own (that is, an admission that OnePlus phones will not last as much as rival models), but Liu’s Point maintains water for a certain generation of phones: a six -year iPhone XR XR, for example, can technically run iOS 18, but that does not mean that it works so well.
Of course, an honor Magic 7 Pro is not an iPhone XR; Your elite chipset Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 and 12 GB of RAM will undoubtedly give it longevity that the phones of yesteryear simply do not have. That said, I don’t think honor is waiting for anyone in fact Stop at the same phone for seven years: this is more a case that the company aligns with the greats for the greats, so it cannot be criticized for not doing so.
Even so, the more updates, the more joy. Offering an update support as long as positive can only be something good for consumers, provided that the hardware in question may live up to billing in seven years. Go back to us in 2032.
