Android fans warned popular phone will no longer receive free upgrades – three alternatives to consider

A POPULAR android telephone volition nary longer person escaped upgrades, with the telephone institution officially ending its bundle support.

The Google Pixel 5a telephone volition person 1 past information spot successful November.

The telephone archetypal launched successful August 2021, with Google promising users 3 years of Android updates and information patches until August 2024.

However, this latest update comes 3 months aft the phone's extremity date.

Google is seemingly pushing retired the November 2024 information spot for the Pixel 5a.

The AP2A.240805.005.S4 physique is seemingly inactive based connected the August 2024 information patch, though it carries a newer November physique date.

According to a idiosyncratic connected Reddit, the information spot update includes assorted fixes related to adaptive brightness, Bluetooth routing, and media subordinate notification.

This is not the archetypal clip Google has rolled retired an update for a Pixel instrumentality a fewer months aft it reached its end-of-life.

It typically rolls retired a insignificant bug-fixing update a fewer months aft enactment ends.

Google has listed the Pixel 5a's November OTA and mill representation for download connected its site.

Pixel 5a users tin manually upgrade their telephone utilizing the OTA instructions.

To update a instrumentality utilizing 1 of the OTA images below, you request the latest adb tool. You tin get it from the Android SDK Platform-Tools package, which you tin download here.

Don't hide to either adhd adb to your PATH situation adaptable oregon alteration into the directory containing the executable.

Also beryllium definite that you've acceptable up USB entree for your device, arsenic described successful Run Apps connected a Hardware Device.

You tin find the afloat database of updating instructions here.

FOUR NEW PIXELS LAUNCHED

It's the archetypal clip the Pro exemplary of the Pixel has travel successful 2 antithetic sizes, a Pixel 9 Pro which is 6.3-inches and a Pixel 9 Pro XL at 6.8-inches.

Google was forced to uncover images of the caller Pixel line-up aboriginal aft a fig of leaks.

This includes a caller "camera bar" bulge on the backmost to location the lens and flash light.

But astatine a motorboat lawsuit yesterday, Android fans got a afloat presumption and look astatine each the caller features.

The devices are brighter, much almighty and battalion improved batteries, according to Google.

Battery lasts up to 100 hours with Extreme Battery Saver switched on, the steadfast besides claims.

The company's new AI voice-assistant Gemini Live volition beryllium disposable connected the Pro, Pro XL and Pro Fold models too, escaped for a year.