Originally Posted by SJ_Mental:
“I have owned phones from both manufacturers and found sony to have the best software support and less crap filled phones, Samsung soon make sure the phone is outdated when a new one is due out, Whereas sony continue to support for years.”
I'm pretty certain that the opposite is true, that Samsung have the track record of supporting handsets for longer.
As far back as the S2, Samsung handsets were receiving firmware updates more than 2 years after launch. If you look at Sony or HTC handsets of the same era, support stopped for them months or even a year earlier.
Just because a manufacturer releases a new handset doesn't mean support for the old one stops.