Google Pixel 8 will be updated longer than Samsung flagships
Miscellaneous / / August 29, 2023
Android manufacturers are slowly stepping on the heels of Apple.
Google aims to overtake Samsung in term of support for flagship smartphones. About it informs 9to5Google portal with a link to industry insiders.
Google is now offering 5 years of support for the Pixel, as is Samsung with its Galaxy S flagships. But this support has an important difference: if Samsung promises 4 Android updates and 5 years of security patches, then Google only 3 Android updates and 5 years of security updates.
To bypass Samsung, with the exit Pixel 8 Google will either have to extend the overall support period, or promise two more years of system updates at once. The former is much easier to accomplish, given that at the end of the support period, smartphones typically switch to quarterly updates instead of the usual monthly patches. Technically, even one patch is enough for Google to outperform a competitor. But users will obviously appreciate additional Android updates much more.
True, by the standards of Apple, this is still modest. The iPhone XS, which launched in 2018 with iOS 12, will be updated to iOS 17 this fall, just the fifth major system update that Google is aiming for. And the iPhone 6s, released in 2015, is still receiving security updates, even though it's been almost 8 years since the release.
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