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11 publications · October 15, 2026
Sony says Xperia 10 VI will not get Android 17
Key points
- Sony announced this week that the Xperia 10 VI will not receive the Android 17 update.
- The Xperia 10 VI was released in mid-2024, so it is about two years old.
- Sony gave a technical reason: the phone's storage configuration.
- Phandroid describes the decision as Sony backtracking on an earlier Android update guarantee for the phone.
Summary
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The decision comes from Sony itself, so the cancellation is confirmed rather than rumoured. The coverage available is brief. Droid Life’s excerpt cuts off before it finishes explaining the storage issue, so the exact technical problem is not clear from what was reported.
Phandroid frames this as a reversal of a prior update promise. Neither excerpt says what that promise was or how many updates Sony had originally committed to, so the size of the gap between the promise and this decision is not established. Neither outlet says whether the phone will get other updates or security patches.
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