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Google has officially stopped selling its Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL smartphones, as spotted by Android Police. The artefact recto for the phones now unaffectedly redirects to the Google Store's homepage, with Google confirming that it has sold through its inventory (although the phone do reside available, for now, at third-party retailers like Champion Buy or Walmart.)

The Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL were announced and released in October 2018, with the phones praised at the time for their ubiquity displays, mint cameras, and gift-wrap design. The phone's camera in particular still holds up contrariwise plenteous of the champion smartphones on vendition today, although the Pixel 3 and 3 XL suffered from the aforementioned issues most of Google's Pixel phone do -- slow sales and a lack of consumer interest compared to major players like Darling and Samsung.

The Pixel 3 will still get software updates until October 2021

The 18-month timing is around identical to the lifecycle for the Pixel 2, which was discontinued almost exactly a year ago on April 1st, 2019, 18 months afterwards it was pristine sold.

It's not reservedly the end of the tarmac yet for Pixel 3 owners. Google promises software support through October 2021, meaning that the Pixel 3 and 3 XL has to be on clue to get updates to Android 11 this year, and self-same abutting year's Android 12. The two phones will also get software updates through then, too.

Anyone lulu for a upkeep Pixel phone palatable won't have too stretched to wait, though, with leaks indicating that a new $399 Pixel 4a (a almsman to last year's cheaper Pixel 3a) could be seasonable however the corner, although its not exactly crystal back that will launch because of Google erasure exercises like its I/O conference because of the coronavirus.