Google's five years of software support for the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro has a relatively large caveat - Notebookcheck.net

To date, Pixel smartphones have received three years of OS and security patch updates, coverage that only OnePlus matched until recently.

Older smartphones like the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL remain some of the first to receive OS upgrades, which cannot be said even for last-generation OnePlus flagships.

The likes of Samsung and Xiaomi have upped their games though, with the 11T series promised three OS upgrades and four years of security patch updates.