You might worry less about cracks and spills involving your Google Pixel and Android devices -- but that peace of mind will cost you. Dashia is the consumer insights editor for CNET. She specializes ...

With its latest devices, Google offers a market-leading seven years of software and security updates, extending the life of the phones longer than users would likely want to hold onto them anyway.

Google’s Pixel 6 and Pixel 7 series devices were notably excluded from the latest Pixel Feature Drop and November 2025 Android security update, though the Pixel 7a did receive it. While both series ...