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While the Pixel 6 ushered in three years of major Android OS version updates and an additional two for security patches, that’s still nowhere near the longevity of the iPhone. Google hopes to change that on the Pixel 8 and 8 Pro with noticeably more OS updates.

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[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How about they give my pixel 3 more updates, it's more than capable of running the current version of Android

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] bird@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

Pixel 6 ushered in three years? I did some searching and it looks like every Pixel all the way back to Pixel 1 received three full years of updates. Is it just the additional two years of security updates that's new?

[–] hydroel@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Do you mean to tell me that 4 weeks after I bought a Google smartphone for the first time, partly because they support their phones for so long, Google announced that the next iterations of their smartphones will be supported even longer?

[–] Deftdrummer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Will it also still continue to overheat like the Pixel though so we get the best of both worlds?

[–] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

I so resent this market. I'm just jailbreaking the next one or whatever.

[–] cable@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Feels like they say this every single year – let's see what they'll tell us next