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Android 16 is launching months earlier than usual. Google says it's coming in Q2 of 2025, when usually major releases happen in Q3 or Q4.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Wait what? Android 15 barely came out

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

~~Lol also maybe this is just the new normal to get people to buy phones more often again. I just bought a pixel 8a for my father in law because it was supposed to come with 7 version upgrades before being left to rot. I assumed they release a new major version each year, so the phone should last him 7 years, but maybe it'll only be 3.5 years now?~~

This is proven false, so 7 years of updates, not 7 versions for a pixel 8a, hooray!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You spent more time typing that out than it would have taken to actually check Google's wording. They claim "7 years of OS updates", you're just spreading misinformation.

https://store.google.com/product/pixel_8a_specs

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Hey, glad to hear! I bought a used pixel and did almost no research as I'm busy. So glad to be proven wrong!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Let me guess, they changed the wallpaper.

Can we stop having a Android release for 5 minutes?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Don't worry, it's probably going to be even more locked down.

I miss Android 7 and prior. The only improvement I see is permission management and UI on tablets (dp >= 600). And perhaps app updates without prompting user from 3rd party app stores (like F-Droid), but I don't like automatic updates anyway.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Wtf, I'm still running 14 on my pixel 6...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

This should have been Android 15 but whatever. AI really got all these conpanies horny.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Looks like Pixel 9 stays the odd one out by not releasing with the latest version of Android