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You still have an ancient Android phone in your hand, can’t you bear to change it? It may finally be time to buy a new phone. According to 91mobiles, Google will prohibit Android 2.3.7 (Gingerbread) or earlier models from logging in to its app services from September 27. Although this has no effect on logging in through the web, if you want to use the built-in app to receive messages or view maps, you need Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) or Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) or higher models. okay. In a letter sent to users, Google stated that protecting user privacy was the main reason for making this decision, but did not further explain where there is a risk of privacy leakage in Android versions prior to 2.3.7.
Of course, there should be very few people who will be affected. Gingerbread was released at the end of 2010, and it has been more than ten years. Even if the mobile phones purchased at the time are still available, it should be quite difficult to run modern services. Having said that, it’s quite rare for Google to make it clear that it will terminate support for the basic functions of the old Android system — perhaps it can be regarded as Google’s setting of 10 years as the upper limit of Android support, beyond which it does not guarantee the integrity of the function. Right?