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What does Qualcomm and Google's 8-year Android support promise mean for us?

It's good news.

Qualcomm recently announced that phones using the Snapdragon 8 and 7 series mobile platforms will be eligible for eight years of update support if they're running Android. (Image credit: Nicholas Sutrich / Android Central)This commitment is nothing but good news, and it's nice to see Qualcomm getting on board with the idea that we should be able to use our expensive phones longer. That's also a financial decision and not limited to Qualcomm — every company that makes chips could offer up to a decade of support if it wasn't so costly to task engineers on the project.

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