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Android Updates

industry insightsOctober 5, 2023

Pixel 8's Seven Years of Updates Changed the Android Support Race

Google promised the Pixel 8 series seven years of Android upgrades, security fixes and Feature Drops, reframing how long a flagship phone could last.

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Original illustration of Project Treble separating the Android framework from vendor implementation and phone hardware

industry insightsMay 15, 2017

Project Treble Explained: Why Android Updates Needed a New Architecture

Project Treble separated Android's framework from device-specific vendor code in 2017, making operating-system updates easier without guaranteeing them.

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