The Pixel 8 is promised 7, which I believe is the highest of any phone.

I guess we'll see how things shake out.

Unless something drastic changes, I'm sticking with Apple because of their demonstrated long-term support. Every phone since 2015 has been supported for 6-7 years. And that's actual support, not a "technically correct" mix of real support and security patches only.

https://www.statista.com/chart/5824/ios-iphone-compatibility...

That's overlooking the fact that Apple does not release the full featureset of new iOS versions on older devices and as years pass the number of feature omissions increases.

which makes sense? like i can’t expect the new ai intelligence (a 3B model) will run at all on iPhone X

There’s hardware dependencies for some of the ‘missing’ features and if the hardware’s not there then there’s not a lot the OS can do to support it

The Fairphone 5 will get 8 years of security updates: https://support.fairphone.com/hc/en-us/articles/180206715370...

it's laughable because i doubt they have any proof that Qualcomm will continue to deliver updates. fairphone is just a intermediary.

they are using the long life Qualcomm parts, that only guarantee production and stock for x years. maybe with software updates by an intern.

it definitely will not guarantee a new driver set compiling to a recent kernel if the old kernel must be upgraded for security or anything else.

so it's kinda bold they promise that with out any disclaimer that they are just hopeful

Librem 5 will get lifetime updates, because it runs mainline Linux without proprietary drivers.

> Availability of software and firmware updates

> (a)

> The latest available version of the firmware shall be made available for a minimum period of eight years after the placing on the market of the last unit of a certain product model, free of charge or at a fair, transparent and non-discriminatory cost. The latest available security update to the firmware shall be made available until at least eight years after the placing on the market of the last product of a certain product model, free of charge.

(b)

> Information on the minimum guaranteed availability of software and firmware updates, availability of spare parts and product support shall be indicated in the product information sheet as from Annex V of Regulation (EU) 2019/2013.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2019/2021/oj

I can't find all of it, but part of it (Samsung also did the same thing) is triggered by EU environment protection directives.

Samsung S24 has 7 years as well

Google can’t even keep a project alive for that long, so let’s not jump ahead. We will see when they actually deliver.

Um they already delivered, for example on 8 years of updates for past Chromebooks.