Google Pixel 4 and 4XL will receive the latest update

The Google Pixel 4 and 4XL smartphones have received one last update from the company, four months after guaranteed support ended. The penultimate update was in October, but the phones are now also receiving the February patches.

The updates can be found on the dedicated pages from Google. It is not uncommon for the search giant to push another update after the guaranteed support period has ended, reports Android Police. That also happened with the Pixel 3, for example.

This means that the support period for the smartphones has been slightly less than 3.5 years in total. For the Pixel 5 generation, Google also promised three more years of security updates; from the Pixel 6, that promise is five years.

Google released the Pixel 4 phones in late 2019. Most distinctive was the Soli radar for facial recognition and gestures. The technology then disappeared from phones, but returned in a Nest thermostat and Nest Hub.

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