Your next flagship Android phone could get 8 years of updates

Thanks to Google and Samsung, software support in the Android ecosystem has greatly improved in recent years. Their flagship devices now launch with a promise of seven years of updates, ensuring you can use these phones for more than a few years. Qualcomm wants to take things up a notch and has worked with Google to offer up to eight years of Android updates and security patches to device manufacturers using its Snapdragon 8 Elite platform.