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> Motorola continues to carry this torch with it's G-series, near-stock, sub-$300 phones.

They also come with almost non existent Android upgrades.

Really? My wife has been getting very regular security upgrades on hers, and I'd been pleasantly surprised. (I'm almost always the one to trigger off any upgrade on her phone when I notice she's got one queued up waiting to install)

Meh. The latest available security patch for the Android 8.0.0 on my Moto Z Play which I purchased 2 years ago is the one of August 2018. Yes, I didn't purchase the phone directly at release date, but just a bit more than 1 year of security patches isn't great. It hurts even more because the hardware is incredibly sturdy and with the battery pack mod, charging woes have been a thing of the past.

EDIT: Wow, apparently they are still advertising and selling this model for which they haven't released a security update in almost a year!

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