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Here’s a list of Android devices with security updates from the last 90 days (Ouch HTC)
August 05, 2025
Today,Google published a blog poston its Android Developers Blog celebrating a big milestone: giving away over $3 million to “bug hunters” — people who find security flaws in Android and report them to Google for a financial reward.
Amazingly enough, the average reward is $2,600, and the average amount of money each person has made from bug hunting is $12,500. One researcher named Guang Gong earned a whopping $105,000 for one report: aremote exploit chain.
While this is all very interesting and makes us feel very safe knowing that bug hunters are out there doing their thing, what really interested us was buried at the bottom of the blog entry. There,Googlegives a list of the Android OEMs with a majority of their deployed devices running a security update from the last 90 days.
The list is quite illuminating.
As one would expect, the companies which are usually very good at issuing timely security updates to Android devices are well-represented on the list. For example, every OnePlus device from the 2016OnePlus 3to the 2018OnePlus 6had security updates from the last 90 days. The list ofSamsungdevices is very long indeed, with even the 2016 edition of the mid-rangeGalaxy A5having a recent security update.
However, some other manufacturers have very small representation on the list. Very small.
For example,HTConly has two devices on the list: theHTC U11 Plusand theHTC U12 Plus. I guess only HTCflagships from the past year can get security updates within 90 days of their release? AndZTEdid even worse, with only one device (the ZTE Blade A6 Max) getting a security update in the past three months. Granted,ZTE had bigger things to worry about.
You can see the full list atthe Android Developers Blog. It might be helpful to give it a look before committing to buy a phone from one of those manufacturers.
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