Samsung is rolling out a new update to the Galaxy Note 10 Lite. It isn’t the latest May 2023 security patch, but the aging affordable Note is picking up a fairly recent April patch. The device, which is now in its fourth year on the market, isn’t getting anything apart from last month’s security fixes.
The April SMR (Security Maintenance Release) for the Galaxy Note 10 Lite is currently available in a handful of Latin American countries, including Mexico, Colombia, and Uruguay. According to SamMobile, which first reported this rollout, the new update brings the firmware build number N770FXXS9HWD1 to the device. Samsung should expand the release to more markets in the coming days or weeks.
That said, the Galaxy Note 10 Lite is now in its final year of support. It is only eligible for quarterly updates, i.e. once every three months or so. As such, Samsung may not push the April SMR to the device in some regions. It could skip a few releases in between. If you don’t receive last month’s update on your Galaxy Note 10 Lite, you may get the May release in the coming weeks.
As of this writing, Samsung hasn’t detailed the content of the May patch, which it recently started pushing to eligible Galaxy devices. However, we know what the April SMR brings to the Galaxy Note 10 Lite. It contains patches for more than 70 vulnerabilities, including at least five critical ones. About 20 of those are Galaxy-specific flaws affecting various system apps, services, and components. The rest 50-odd patches are for Android OS flaws and come from Google or the respective vendors of the affected services.
The Galaxy Note 10 Lite will not get Android 14
Samsung launched the Galaxy Note 10 Lite in early 2020. The device arrived as an affordable Note phone for those who wanted the company’s S Pen at a lower cost. However, the Korean behemoth soon shelved the Note lineup and included the S Pen with the most expensive Galaxy S model. The Galaxy Note 10 Lite ended up never getting a sequel.
Despite that, Samsung offered excellent support to the phone. It debuted with Android 10 onboard and received updates until Android 13. The Galaxy Note 10 Lite also recently picked up One UI 5.1. Unfortunately, that’s the last major feature update for the phone. It will not get Android 14 or One UI 6.0. Going forward, it’s only security updates for the Galaxy Note 10 Lite. Those will come at least until January 2024.
2023-05-02 15:12:30