Google Is Killing Pixel And Pixel XL, Support To Die Soon After

As Google’s signature handsets last year, the Pixel and Pixel XL have a lot of fans in the market. It seems those users will have to think about upgrading soon, however, as the company is apparently killing these phones. They are no longer available to purchase directly from Google and once the sales die, support for the phones will inevitably follow it to the grave.

Both the Pixel and Pixel XL Google Phones are no longer available for sale at any of the company’s official platforms, neither through the Google Store nor through the Project Fi store, Ars Technica reports. As the original, official smartphones that were manufactured and sold under the Google umbrella, the handsets generated a fair bit of buzz when they were announced and when they hit the market.

Even when the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL flagship phones released last years, the older devices stayed on. As with all things, however, it seems they finally wore out their welcome and Google has decided that it was time to let them go.

Just to make things even more official, Google also told Gizmodo directly that no one will be able to purchase the handsets from the company. This doesn’t mean that they won’t be available elsewhere, but it will certainly be at much less official capacity.

It’s also worth pointing out that support for the Pixel and Pixel XL is likely to expire in October of this year in terms of Android update. This is according to Google’s own official documentation, which also states that security updates will cease by October 2019.

This would make owning one of the handsets by that point a bit risky since it would make users more vulnerable to malware and such. They will still work and most all of their features will remain intact. They just won’t be supported anymore.