Google guarantees two years of updates on its Pixel – The Digital

Published on October 5, 2016 12:14

The revolution will wait

The information has not had the right to his little note at the conference Google yesterday, but it is of size : the two new phones Pixel announced by the giant will have two years of software updates. A commitment symptomatic of the state of Android, and symbolic of the involvement of Google.

This is an operation transparency that deserves to be highlighted, but stay a little bit through the throat. The Google Pixel and Pixel XL will benefit from two years of updates to their OS. The information is marked in black and white on the Google Store. As nice as it is for Google to communicate clearly about the future of its aircraft — in addition to being a desperately rare in the Android world —, we would have liked a commitment a little more generous on the part of the company.

we Hear well : a pair of years is a period quite respectable in the world of Android updates. Too many manufacturers do not even bother to deploy only one update on their mobile or tablet, and those who give the money, grow rarely to the effort beyond 24 months. Even high end mobile such as the Galaxy S6 or LG G4, for example, may well, at the end of a year and a half in-service, to remain stuck on their current versions of Android. Only the Nexus were more or less regularly updated for two years and Google repeats this strategy with its Pixel. Except that here, if Google wants to make its mobile references, we would have liked that he is shown to be more ambitious and to move the market in the right direction, especially with mobile sold 759 € and more.

Andromeda in charge ?

In addition, Google has taken largely the reins on the software side and hardware side on its Pixel, the pathway was completely free to replicate the update model of iPhone. Even if Apple is fragmenting its Updated and does not distribute all of the new features in all its models be eligible, the firm of Cupertino has all the same passes, to the forceps, of course, its iPhone 5, dating back to 2012 on iOS 10. Even the 3 years of security updates promised by Google on its Pixel does not match the follow-up to Apple.

as revolutionary as Google has shown, its Pixel does not change anything in the status quo on updates to Android for the time being. But this choice little ambitious could well be explained in one word : Andromeda. The fusion of Chrome OS and Android thought to eventually replace the system of the little green robot could enter the track battery at the time where the Pixel will arrive at the end of follow-up software. Google could possibly make a clean sweep and inaugurate its new system on a new and original material. Not to mention that the technical requirements and hardware are likely to be revised upwards for this new OS. See you in October 2018, so, for more information.