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Pixel 8 to have seven years of Android updates (www.theverge.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Now this is nice. Hopefully 3rd party manufacturers can also provide a longer life span for the device.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The Google Pixel 8 and 8 Pro will be supported with seven years of “OS, security, and Feature Drop updates,” meaning buyers should be able to use them until 2030 before their software starts to become outdated.

It’s also a longer support period than what basically all of Google’s mainstream Android competitors are currently offering.

Google has the freedom to offer this longer support period thanks to using its own Tensor processor in the Pixel 8 series, which gives it more control over the hardware that’s gone into the phone compared to most of its Android competitors.

Apple, another manufacturer that also produces its own processors for its phones, offers similarly lengthy support periods.

But that assumes Google is still using the same annual release cadence for Android seven years from now, even before we get into its somewhat flaky history of ongoing support for other services and initiatives.

However, Fairphone has no plans to sell its fifth-generation device in the US and is also only committed to releasing five major Android OS updates.

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