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Which manufacturer updates its smartphones fastest: Android 10 rollout edition
July 25, 2025
Each year we get a new version of Android. In 2019, that version wasAndroid 10, the first update for the operating system without an official “sweet treat” name attached. Following the Android 10 rollout, the dessert names will be gone with just numbers instead.
If you bought a phone prior to Android 10’s stable launch date (August 22, 2025), you might be eligible for a software upgrade. However, depending on which company manufactured your smartphone and what model it is, you may or may not have received it yet.
If you’re one of the unlucky ones who won’t see Android 10 on your phone, you might want to buy your next smartphone from a company that updates its phones quickly and frequently. To help you out with that, we’ve ranked the top-ten Android OEMs below with a quick summary of how long it took each one to start their own Android 10 rollout. Theoretically, those companies should be just as fast (if not faster) at rolling outAndroid 11.
Before we get into it, though, here are someimportant notes:
Also, be sure to check out our previous Android rollout roundups forAndroid Pie,Oreo, andNougatto see which OEMs are improving and which are losing ground.
1. Essential
The good news when it comes to Essential is that, outside of Google, no company has been faster at delivering Android updates. That is absolutely the case when it comes to the Android 10 rollout, as the Essential Phonegot it on day one, the same day as Google Pixel devices.
The bad news is thatEssential is no more. Going forward, the one and only smartphone from the brand will no longer receive any official updates at all, including operating system upgrades. In other words, next year there will be another company in this first position.
Redmi — which is nowits own sub-brandinstead of being connected directly with Xiaomi — earned a second-place slot on this list with its incredibly fastday-one updateof theRedmi K20 Pro. However, it didn’t earn first place because that update only landed on Chinese variants of the device.
It wouldn’t be until July 23, 2025, that Android 10 would land on K20 Pro units in another country,specifically India. If we only judged Redmi on that it actually would have come in third place behind OnePlus, but we gave it credit for surprising us all with a launch day announcement, even if it was in a country where Google services don’t exist. Regardless, Redmi is proving that it is taking Android updates quite seriously!
3. OnePlus
One of the main reasons OnePlus fans are so crazy for the brand is the company’s track record when it comes to updates. OnePlus certainly didn’t disappoint when it rolled out Android 10 to theOnePlus 7andOnePlus 7 Projust 18 days after the stable versionof the operating system became official. That beat the company’s previous record of46 daysforAndroid 9 Pie.
However, speed isn’t everything. Unfortunately, the initial Android 10 rollout wasplagued with problemsand the company eventually stopped distributing the update for a time. Because of this, the rollout of Android 11 might actually take longer than it did this year as the company very likely will not want to repeat the same mistakes.
4. HMD Global (Nokia)
Most Nokia-branded smartphones from HMD Global run a version of Android — eitherAndroid OneorAndroid Go— that’s very close to stock. As such, it’s not surprising that Nokia phones are usually some of the first to see new Android updates, as we saw with the rollout of Android 10.
The first Nokia-branded device to get Android 10was the Nokia 8.1, one of the many mid-rangers from HMD. The company’s only bonafide flagship, theNokia 9 PureView, didn’t get the latest version of the OS until August 16, 2025. As of now, even the budget-oriented Nokia smartphones from 2019 should be running Android 10.
ASUS really surprised us in 2019 by releasing one of the most exciting devices of the year: theASUS Zenfone 6, which features a unique flipping rear camera. It then doubly surprised us by getting Android 10 out to the Zenfone 6 injust over two months.
Only a short time later, the company’s Android 10 rollout hit the ASUS Zenfone 5Z. Unfortunately, it took a really long time for ASUS to get the latest version of Android to theROG Phone 2— that update didn’t landuntil March 2020. Just goes to show that just because a company is good at getting updates to some of its devices doesn’t mean it’s going to get it to all of them in a similarly timely manner.
Is there any company more confusing than Xiaomi? The first Xiaomi-branded device to see Android 10was the Xiaomi Mi 9. That update came skinned over withMIUI 11. However, other phones saw MIUI 11 updates prior to this, but MIUI 11 was skinned over Android 9 Pie.
To make things more confusing, even some of Xiaomi’sAndroid Oneproducts — which should, theoretically, get Android updates the fastest — didn’t see the update until well into 2020. This is without even mentioning the flagship-killing-favorite, thePocophone F1, which only got to enjoy Android 10’s delightsin March 2020. As such, even though Xiaomi tied with ASUS for the number of days until a stable Android 10 rollout, we’re knocking it down a notch simply for how incredibly confusing its lineup is.
2019 wasn’t the best year for HUAWEI. In May, the company was put on the so-calledEntity Listby the US government, effectively banning it from working with any US-based firms, including Google. That means devices launched after May 2019 don’t have access to any Google services.
Luckily, the 2019 flagship HUAWEI P30 andP30 Prodevices launched prior to the ban, so they will continue to have access to Google services. They alsosaw Android 10 in no time at all, with just a two-month wait from when the OS became stable. Other HUAWEI devices should see Android 10 (if they haven’t already) as Android updates are not directly tied to Google. However, what good is the latest version of Android if you can’t even download Google Maps from the Play Store?
Since HONOR is a sub-brand of HUAWEI, it should be no surprise that the former should be so close to the latter on this list. TheHONOR 20,20 Pro, andView 20all received Android 10only days afterHUAWEI started rolling out the latest version of the OS to its flagship P30 series.
Honor, though, is also affected by HUAWEI’s presence on the US government’s Entity List. While some older HONOR phones will likely see Android 11, Google services won’t be included on newer devices until the United States figures out a deal with HUAWEI. At this point, when that might be is anyone’s guess.
9. Samsung
In years past,Samsunghas been pretty poor about getting Android updates out in a timely fashion. This has been a big pain point for Samsung fans as the company’s flagship phones are quite expensive, so you think the company would be one of the fastest for updates. However, over the past year or so, the company has gotten much better.
Case in point, for the Android 10 rollout, Samsung pushed outits first stable releaseon July 17, 2025 — that’s almost two months faster than its Pie rollout from late 2018. Granted, Android 10 only hitSamsung Galaxy S10 familydevices in Germany at the time, but just two weeks later it was here in the United States. By now, pretty much everyone with aGalaxy SorGalaxy Notedevice from 2018 or later should have Android 10, which is a sign that Samsung is really changing its ways.
Honestly, it’s hard to appropriately rank LG on this list. Technically, the company began its Android 10 rollout with theLG G8 ThinQon June 10, 2025, but it wasonly to South Korean versions of the phone. It wouldn’t be until July 14, 2025, that the update would start hitting the G8 variants here in the US and elsewhere.
Even now, there are still plenty of prominent LG phones without Android 10, including theLG G8X,LG V40, andLG G7. However, LG is still doing better at updates than some of the other OEMs in the next section, so it earned its spot on this list — even if it is at the bottom.
Wait, what about the other OEMs?
On any top-ten list, there can only be ten winners. As such, there are plenty of OEMs that don’t appear up top. That doesn’t mean that they aren’t rolling out Android 10 in some capacity, though!
For example,Sony pushed Android 10to both theXperia 1and theXperia 5on August 11, 2025, only three days after LG snuck in with the update for Korean variants of the LG G8 ThinQ. This is a pretty significant fall from grace considering Sony came third in ourPie roundup last year.
To make matters worse, however, Sony didn’t evenannouncewhen it would bring Android 10 to its handsetsuntil August 02, 2025, months after companies such as OnePlus and HMD Global started actually pushing the update.
Likewise for realme, which only pushed out its first Android 10 update in late January 2020. It didn’treveal its update plansuntil July 06, 2025.
Motorola also pushed Android 10 to some of its handsets in 2019 — but only to those that are in the Android One program. It wouldn’t be until late January this year that Motorola would push out a non-Android One update, and even then it wasonly to phones in Brazil.
ZTE also updated one of its phones to Android 10: theZTE Axon 10 Pro. However,that didn’t start until early January 2020in Europe with theU.S. OTA arrivingby the end of the month.
Finally, we have poor OPPO and vivo. Although OPPO is one of the largest smartphone OEMs in the world, not one of its deviceshas been upgraded Android 10. There have been lots of beta tests and some stable launches are scheduled for March 2020, but that’s a pretty poor performance for such a large OEM.
Likewise for vivo, which also hasn’t pushed an Android 10 upgrade to any of its devices yet. It revealed its update schedule very late (inDecember 2019) but then postponed those plans due to the coronavirus. It then only announced its revised beta testing schedulea few days ago. Seriously.
That’s all we’ve got for Android 10 rollout roundup. Want to learn more about the next version of Android, simply called Android 11? Check out our other articles below!
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