The Sony Xperia 10 VI won’t be getting a promised update to Android 17
Andrew Liszewski is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid.
When the midrange Sony Xperia 10 VI was announced over two years ago with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 chipset and Android 14, Sony promised three major OS updates which would have included this year’s Android 17 release. However, according to a notice posted to the company’s UK support site, the Xperia 10 VI won’t be getting Android 17 after all.
In the notice Sony explains that a “detailed technical assessment” revealed that “limitations related to the device’s storage configuration” mean the Xperia 10 VI “does not support an Android 17 upgrade experience that we consider adequate.” As a result, the company has “decided not to make this upgrade available” and apologized that the decision “falls short of...
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