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7 years of software updates for the Pixel 8 series
(blog.google)
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Pixel 4a just fell out of support, that's roughly 3 years. Not so great.
Compared to almost all other android phone marker it's decent and https://endoflife.date/pixel starting with the pixel 6 gen they got 5 years now 7 with the pixel 8
If you have to compare it with terrible to look OK, it’s a tacit admission Android support windows are next to terrible.
Wow, that's less than my Galaxy S8. It was getting updates from 2017 to 2022.