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It doesn't matter who the OEM is. All Android phones are now wrappers around the Qualcomm snapdragon SOCs if they're sold in the US. They all have the update problem because Qualcomm has refused to work with other organizations or maintain their kernel forks.

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It's been getting better recently as third parties have taken on the work of maintaining drivers for Qualcomm chipsets, there are now a lot of their chipsets which can run on upstream kernels, and if Android kernels were closer to upstream, AOSP kernels could probably be built to function on some Qualcomm chipsets today.