Sony continues to launch new smartphones and it doesn’t seem willing to abandon its Xperia rangedespite having only occupied a niche on the market for years.
In the meantime, however, the Japanese company has become the protagonist of a sensational change of planwith the canceling the Android 17 update For Xperia 10 VI.
Recall that it was also recently launched Xperia 10 VIII.
The cancellation is official
This is not a rumor as the company confirmed the news with an official note which underlines:
We announced at launch that the Xperia 10 VI would receive three Android OS updates. However, after a detailed technical evaluation, we have determined that due to limitations related to the device’s storage configuration, the Xperia 10 VI does not support an Android 17 update experience that we consider adequate. As a result, we have decided not to make this update available. We recognize that this does not match our original announcement and would like to apologize for this change.
The mid-range launched in 2024 with Android 14, according to Sony’s statements at the time of presentation, should have had 3 major updatesreaching up to Android 17.
This update was supposed to arrive over the next few weeks, but the company canceled it. Xperia 10 VI will stop at Android 16.
At the basis of this choice there would be some limitate hardware not better specified for the smartphone which can count on the Snapdragon 6 Gen 1, 8 GB of RAM and 128 GB of storage.
Sony does not intend to change its privacy policy security updates. Support continues with patches that will be released until 2028.
At least for the moment, Sony does not seem willing to change the update programs of its products with further cancellations. More details on this could arrive in the coming weeks.
