Android 14 for OnePlus 9

Kev_Z23 wrote:

syaoran wrote:

It is up to OPPO, the owner of the OnePlus brand to deliver it.  My OnePlus 8T has Android 14, as bad as it is basically being ColorOS under the name of OxygenOS.  

Once the manufacturer, in this case OnePlus/OPPO, finishes developing the OS update it's up to the carriers when and if they decide to actually push it to their customers after testing for bugs. If you had bought it directly from OnePlus, then it would be the sole responsibility of the manufacturer.

It doesn't work that way.  I was a beta tester for OnePlus right up until OPPO took over.  They only have two teams of a handful of people to develop their updates.  The regular and the T series.  They sometimes alternate but the newest device is also first, then you have the previous model, and so on.  That process was supposed to carry over to OPPO.  Carriers might test radio firmware, carrier aggregation, and add in their third party created bloat, but that is all done before OnePlus/OPPO pushes the update.