This is like all the fast food places in Canada proudly announcing their hormone and antibiotics free meats. Yeah no shit dip shit, it's the law, as if if you were allowed your meats wouldn't be 90% antibiotics and growth hormones.

Fml when i bought a new phone last month out of fear the upcoming ones would get a price jump from tarrifs…

Software updates can be deployed regionally either based on carrier or by product SKU. If there are different SKUs for North American vs EU phones, which is almost universally the case because of differing regional requirements such as radio technology, target price points and so on. That means that phone model 'X (NA)' could have a different update schedule than 'X (EU)'.

Why? money, of course. There is a small cost to supporting a SKU for updates, even if it's the same software that's already being deployed to another SKU. That increases if the two SKUs have different processors (Samsung does this). On top of that, longer update schedules means people aren't replacing their phones as often, which means theoretically less sales - though I find that claim dubious as many people replace their phones long before they lose software support.

So yes, while it's possible that a company might honour a 7 year update schedule outside of EU, it would be by their choice to do so.

Correct

In effect, yes.

5 years minimum software support after the device is no longer on the market.

Presumably this phone will be on the market for two years (in the EU at least).

Theoretically it could be less than 7 years if they only sold it for one year, of course, but even OEMs that release phones each year like clockwork tend to keep their previous model around for a while.

Truly the most frustrating trend since it started.

Yes.

I'll let you decide: https://9to5google.com/2023/07/17/ultimate-guide-nothing-phone-2-glyph-interface/

I use Nothing Phone 1, and I will never change it to something else.

Maybe will consider to buy Nothing Phonbe 3 eventually.

They have clean design philosophy, but in order to fully embrace it you have to install their monochrome icon pack. And this is the only android UI which is pleasant to look it, and not some flashy multicolored abomination as other platforms do.

Not having flashy multicolored icons means a lot for the mental wellbeing.

I have the Phone 2 in the US and I love it. Keeping it for a while longer and intrigued by the phone 3 for sure.

In fact I decided to make my first post on Lemmy about it.

https://lemmy.world/post/31596982