simple@lemm.ee to Android@lemdro.idEnglish · 9 months agoPixel 8 to have seven years of Android updateswww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square74fedilinkarrow-up1336arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up1331arrow-down1external-linkPixel 8 to have seven years of Android updateswww.theverge.comsimple@lemm.ee to Android@lemdro.idEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square74fedilinkfile-text
Now this is nice. Hopefully 3rd party manufacturers can also provide a longer life span for the device.
minus-squarebaatliwala@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up44·9 months agoStart of an era for Android hopefully, especially with EU’s replaceable batteries law coming up. This is what OEMs should copy and not dumb shit done by Apple.
minus-squaresigns23@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·9 months agoWasnt the law that you could still build not replacable batteries because of water resistance? I would love to have that option back again, since batteries are the main part why phones die right now.
minus-squareforgeddit@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·9 months agoEspecially frustrating when Samsung already built phones with replaceable batteries AND water resistance. (The IP rating was lower though) I hope there is a high rating limit, so they can’t just add “survises a droplet” as reason to not have a replaceable battery.
Start of an era for Android hopefully, especially with EU’s replaceable batteries law coming up. This is what OEMs should copy and not dumb shit done by Apple.
Wasnt the law that you could still build not replacable batteries because of water resistance?
I would love to have that option back again, since batteries are the main part why phones die right now.
Especially frustrating when Samsung already built phones with replaceable batteries AND water resistance. (The IP rating was lower though)
I hope there is a high rating limit, so they can’t just add “survises a droplet” as reason to not have a replaceable battery.