Will your phone survive to see 7 years of updates? I used the Galaxy S8 to find out

Samsung and Google made headlines last year when they announced that their flagship Android phones would both get seven years of updates. That would be a monumental achievement if they can pull it off, but will your phone even last that long?

To test this theory, I decided to go back to my seven-year-old Samsung Galaxy S8 and use it for a week. I wanted to see whether it still held up after all that time and what it felt like to use a phone that old. Here’s what I discovered and how that went.