Is the Samsung Galaxy A90 5G still supported?
End-of-support date: September 2023.
Support ended
Our estimateSeptember 2023
Source: Samsung's official policy · verified 2026-06-12
What it means now that support ends
- 🔓 Security risk grows monthly. New vulnerabilities are discovered constantly; on an unsupported phone they are never fixed. Banking, payments, email, and password apps become progressively riskier.
- 📱 Apps drop off. Developers raise their minimum OS requirements over time — first you lose updates to apps, then the apps themselves.
- 💸 Resale value falls fast.The market prices support: once a phone leaves a manufacturer's update list, its used value drops sharply and keeps falling.
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More questions about the Galaxy A90 5G
How long will the Galaxy A90 5G get updates?
Support has ended. Samsung delivered two OS upgrades (Android 9 to Android 11) and about four years of security patches, finishing around late 2023.
Is the Galaxy A90 5G powerful?
For its era, yes. It used the flagship Snapdragon 855, making it noticeably faster than the Exynos and lower-Snapdragon chips in the rest of this lineup.
Does the Galaxy A90 5G still get useful 5G?
It supports early 5G bands, so coverage can be patchy on newer networks, and combined with the lack of updates it is best treated as a budget secondary device.
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Data sources & last verified: this phone's support window comes from documented update history (estimate — see our methodology), last verified 2026-06-12. How we compute end dates.