Samsung and Pixel update promises, and how TechWorth treats them

Android makers now publish years of OS and security updates. We store the promise, not a fabricated calendar date.

TechWorth editorial · Last reviewed 6 September 2026

Samsung’s Galaxy S24 Unpacked coverage states seven years of OS and security updates. Google’s Pixel 8 announcement states seven years of OS updates. Those sentences are the source. We do not convert them into a made-up last-patch Tuesday.

Earlier Pixels carried a shorter published promise; that lives as a product-scoped constant so a generation eight figure cannot leak onto an iPad. Repair pages for Galaxy and Pixel stay unindexed until a dated manufacturer or authorised-service price exists — Samsung and Google do not publish an Apple-style UK fee table we can cite.

Browse Galaxy S24 and Pixel 8 for the sourced rows.