When it’s perfectly fine to use a phone that’s ‘unsupported’. And when it’s not!
You'll have heard of the Surface Duo? Running Android, it's a dual screened phone with unique form factor that is being abandoned by its maker, Microsoft, in a month or two's time. Begging the question as to what happens for people using it at that time. In fact, the situation isn't unusual, especially in the Android world. People all over the planet are still using 3, 4, 5, even 6 or more years old phones with nothing really bad happening to them. Manufacturer updates typically stop around the three year mark (more if it's a Samsung, less if it's made by Motorola or a lesser Chinese brand), so it's a valid question to wonder just how safe using these older phones with old operating system versions really is. I realise that this is a topic we keep coming back to on the Phones Show Chat podcast , but for everyone else, here's a primer... and my take. There are various aspects to manufacturer updates that get offered to your smartphone: Operating System (O...