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Pixel XL released October 2016 (from [1]), no guaranteed updates after October 2018 [2].

I looked at the Pixel 4, released October 2019, discontinued October 2020, no guaranteed updates after October 2022...

[1] https://www.gsmarena.com/google_pixel_xl-8345.php [2] https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/4457705?hl=en#zippy=...

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That is not at best, probably this is at worst. But thanks for the info.

In Android-land this is currently about the best actually. There is a chance of it improving over time as the updates will be decoupled from hardware support but the situation is markedly worse than on iOS.

Unfortunately the 3 guaranteed years of updates for pixels is pretty much the best in the Android world. There are very few exceptions like FairPhone reliably providing long term updates

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