Pixel 8 to have seven years of Android updates - eviltoast
Google says it’ll support Pixel 8 series with seven years of Android updates
www.theverge.com
Two seven-year smartphones.

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

  • 👁️👄👁️@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I don’t really know all the differences but phone OS upgrades need firmware updates as well, which will delay a lot of OS releases and cause old hardware to no longer have security support. I don’t think the OS layer is completely separate like it is with desktop computers.

    • Madis@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I can understand that part, but not why providing such update timeline would be “excessive” or “crazy”, if there are ways to achieve it.