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Pixel 6 leaks: Five years of security updates, ~$749 and $1,049 price tags - Ars Technica
Oct 11, 2021 1 min, 30 secs
The site was full of info, most notably claiming that the Pixel 6 will come with "five years of updates." The Pixel 6 features Google's first main SoC, the "Google Tensor" chip, and the company hasn't said why it decided to drop Qualcomm and strike out on its own in the chip market.

Some companies, like Samsung, are slightly extending that time frame with three years of major operating system updates and four years of major security updates, but none of Qualcomm's customers are empowered to support phones for much longer.

The "five years of updates" claim on the Carphone Warehouse page is clarified in the fine print as "Android security updates for at least five years," so we don't actually know how many major Android updates the Pixel 6 will get.

Google could offer five years of major Android OS updates, allowing the Pixel 6 to last until Android 17, but that's not what this page promises.

For now, we can only say that the phone will get an unknown number of major OS updates and five years of security updates.

Android 12 will dramatically change how new devices roll out Android's Linux kernel with the "GKI," or "Generic Kernel Image." Android phones all run the Linux kernel, but traditionally, there are three forks that happen in between mainline Linux and what ships on an Android phone—a fork for Google's "Android Common" kernel, then a fork of that for the SoC Vendor, then a fork of the SoC kernel for your specific device.

Google is also introducing a formal kernel update system that will let the company ship Linux kernel updates through the Play Store.

For now, the system only applies to Linux's LTS kernel updates, but there are plans (which may or may not come to the Pixel 6) to allow other kernel updates.

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