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.

    • Square Singer@feddit.deEnglish
      47·
      1 year ago

      7 years updates plus 2 battery swaps will take a flagship phone right to the edge of how long you’d want to use it anyway.

      I think, 7 years would be amazing, but also good enough. Or to put it differently, after 7 years you get into heavy diminishing returns, since almost all users will be moving on/have severely broken their phone before that.

      I’ve had most of my phones until they where 5-6 years old (I used to buy used, so I had older phones even though I didn’t have them for quite that long). After that time, they usually fall apart anyway. (Two of my phones developed frequent random reboots around that time, one wore through the cable connecting both halves of the slider, and one killed died when I tried replacing the battery and accidentally cut through the screen cable).

      • Eczpurt@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        I think you hit the nail on the head with diminishing returns. I’m usually on a 5-6 year usage period too. I can understand the battery swap helping out but my last few phones have felt so sluggish after 4+ years so I start looking at new phones around year 5. I have a Pixel 7 now and I’m going to wait until end of support and then we’ll see what the offerings are then!

      • MagneticFusion@lemm.eeEnglish
        7·
        1 year ago

        No not the Pixel 8 otherwise it would have a back that you can open. Maybe the Pixel 9 but not likely, but definitely the Pixel 10 because the mandate kicks in somewhere in 2026 and the Pixel 10 would be coming out late 2025 so, that one is the most likely to have a replaceable battery. I have a Pixel 7 currently so I can wait til the Pixel 10