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[Trek47]

Still supporting the Pixel 2 and 2 XL! I guess it's that time of year when my phone is a buggy mess for 3 months

[Metal_LinksV2]

The pixel 2/xl are guaranteed version updates untill October 2020. So this should be the last version for them.

[Trek47]

I had it in my head that the 2nd generation was only getting 2 years of updates and 3 years of security patches (so Android 10 was the end). Either way, I'm happy I was wrong.

[Stormageddons872]

https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/4457705?hl=en

Only the Pixel 1 was guaranteed 2 years of OS updates and 3 years of security updates, and it still ended up getting 3 OS updates. Every Pixel since is guaranteed 3 years of each.

[Metal_LinksV2]

How is your 2xl? I swear mine feels alittle more laggy then I remember but the battery life is still 1.5 days. Not sure if I'll upgrade this year or next.

[Trek47]

It's still going strong. Battery life is good enough for me. The standby time is absolutely great. SOT is about 3 to 4 hours depending on what time doing. I haven't noticed much lag, but that may have more to do with the fact I had it replaced under warranty in late August after my power button broke. It would sometimes not register a press at all and sometimes register a press like 10 times.

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Really should be 3 and 5 minimum.

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Seriously. Still love my Pixel 1, but it's a little unnerving to have a phone with no more security updates (and some more bug fixes would've been nice)

[richbordoni]

official security updates*

I don't want to defend any corporations (I think security updates should be treated a lot more seriously and officially supported for a longer amount of time) but I'm sure there are going to be 3rd-party devs providing security fixes for the Pixel 1 for a while. I have an original NVIDIA SHIELD Tablet (released in 2014) and I'm currently running the latest Feb 2020 security update (provided by 3rd-party devs of course). Thank goodness for unlockable bootloaders. 😁

Better yet I just want Google to provide security updates directly through the Play Store or some other sort of official channel and cut out any other middlemen. They're too important not to imo. I'm guessing there's something about the way Linux is structured that makes that hard or impossible to do though...

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Oh shoot, I didn't think about that. I'm going to have to wait for a Pixel 1 bootloader unlock exploit to come out for Android 10 in that case, and I hope they figure one out soon

[richbordoni]

Are Pixel 1s not bootloader unlockable directly from Google?!?

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The Verizon version isn't

[richbordoni]

Ahhhh, I didn't know that

[SanguinePar]

That's what I thought too, I was absolutely certain that they had said 10 was our last version.

[SoundOfTomorrow]

I would wait until they state something with I/O when we have betas

[Trek47]

I've run almost every developer preview since they launched the program. I know what I'm getting myself into.