Participants in the Android Beta Program get first dibs on the next update, which is set to land in official form next year ...

With its latest devices, Google offers a market-leading seven years of software and security updates, extending the life of the phones longer than users would likely want to hold onto them anyway.

When the first foldable phones came along, they seemed like a cool evolution of the traditional smartphone form factor and, if they got smaller and cheaper, like something people might actually want.