The iPhone 5S is still supported by Apple and was released on Sept 10th 2013 [1] .<p>The last iPhone to be not supported by Apple was the iPhone 5 released on September 21, 2012 and ended support on July 19th 2017 [2]. They supported it for almost five years.<p>The Nexus 6P, Nexus 5X, and Pixel C were released on September 29, 2015. [3] [4]. Their software support ends today on March 7th which is slightly more than two years.<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_5S" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_5S</a>
[2] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_5" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_5</a>
[3] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Nexus" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Nexus</a>
[4] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_C" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_C</a><p>EDIT: I made a mistake in my last statement that I corrected. Thank you child comment :)
This is just pathetic. You buy a piece of hardware that could trivially keep working for 5-8 years, and it becomes actively dangerous to use, not just for the owner but to everyone else (think botnets), after 3 years because the vendor stops giving security updates for its software? This should be illegal.
The irony of stopping major OS support for older phones because you introduced yet another layer of abstraction to make major OS support for older phones easier.
Help me <a href="https://postmarketos.org/" rel="nofollow">https://postmarketos.org/</a>, you're my only hope.<p>I don't really know what changed, but I used to be the guy who always wanted the new phone (or <insert really any "device" here>), but ever since I got my 5X I just haven't wanted anything more hardware-wise. I really hope that some of the long-life, open source, replacement OSs for phones take off.
There is a comment I remember from slashdot a million years ago after yet another gmail design. I'm paraphrasing, but was something along the lines of, when is Google going to stop redesigning things and just position all the UI elements randomly every time you open gmail?<p>I'm starting to feel similarly about major Android release.<p>Just for example, why move the clock? Why? After almost a decade of looking at the upper right, I'm going to have to hunt for it every time I need it.
I'm still on my Nexus 5. There hasn't been any phone worth upgrading to, that I'm aware of. If I knew that the Pixel would be so over the top expensive I have upgraded to the 5X at the time it was released but I was hoping that skipping a release would be worth it. I wouldn't mind a Pixel though, I'm just not going to pay $1000+ (AUD) for a phone.<p>For me the Nexus 5 was the last phone that had a great form factor, good enough features and was sold at a reasonable price.
This isn't surprising. Google has had their device EOL plans up and public for many moons now: <a href="https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/4457705?hl=en#nexus_devices" rel="nofollow">https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/4457705?hl=en#nexus_...</a>
My frustration is that you used to be able to buy a used Nexus phone from craigslist, ebay or really anyone and know it was going to be ROMable. Now we have 2 different Pixel phones. The Verizon models and Google models(which have an unlocked bootloader). It has made the resell market an absolute pain. For me the disappearance of the Nexus will be the disappearance of a guaranteed flashable phone
I own a Nexus 5X and I'm very satisfied with it. Even the battery is holding up after 2 years of daily usage and loading from <20% to ~90%. While it's sad to see that I wont get Android 9, I'm happy with the Android updates I got for my phone. It never got slower, rather quicker with every update. At least I can count on Google giving me security updates once a month.
I have a Nexus 6 (Not 6P) and I'm running Android 8.1!
Although it is officially dead, but the good thing about Nexus/Pixel phones is that it is easy to port the new version of android to them (unofficially).
My phone works better with the custom ROM than with the stock android! I know the average person won't go through all the trouble to flash a custom ROM on their phone, but this was one of the reason that I bought a Nexus in the first place, the community support at XDA.<p>Edit: Nexus 6 came to market in 2014. I bought it in 2015 and after years of usage, it has never been faster and snappier. Android 8.1 is quick and it gave my phone a new life.
That’s beyond pathetic. I purchased a new Nexus 6P from Best Buy in November 2016, and now it’s not going to be updated anymore, but my grandmas iPhone 6 (Fall 2014) will be?
Why is this a surprise? Google's has shown a pattern that they don't care about your Android hardware since they partnered with HTC and released their first branded phone.<p>- Nexus One / Paperweight Owner