The Xperia 10 VI launched successful May of 2024, booting Android 14, and astatine the clip Sony pledged the instrumentality would beryllium eligible for three Android updates. That meant that it would get Android 17 astatine immoderate point, but that committedness volition not beryllium kept arsenic Sony has present issued a notice to its users.
As per Sony, the Xperia 10 VI volition not beryllium getting Android 17 owed to “limitations related to the device’s retention configuration”. Sony did “a elaborate method assessment” which determined that the Xperia 10 VI would not connection an “adequate” Android 17 upgrade experience. This means that Sony did, successful fact, trial the Xperia 10 VI with the latest Android physique but yet decided not to vessel that update to its users.
We’ve really ne'er heard specified an excuse from immoderate different marque earlier and it conscionable looks atrocious to backmost retired of a committedness made to your users. Sony did contented an authoritative apology and confirmed that it would inactive oblige its committedness of delivering 4 years of information patches for the 10 VI. We besides got confirmation that nary different Xperia models volition beryllium impacted.
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