Tablets and Google Play for Education End of Life Policy
Overview
Tablets with Google Play for Education receive automatic updates regularly that enhance both
the device itself and software on the device. However, advances in hardware and technology
eventually make devices out-of-date, and as time goes by, we cannot indefinitely ensure that
older tablets will continue to support device setup or the ability to receive content from
Google Play for Education. This document provides advanced notice of the End of Life date for
specific Google Play for Education approved tablets, and is currently applicable only to
customers of tablets with Google Play for Education customers.
General policy
- When a device reaches End of Life (EOL), it means that the product model is considered
obsolete and will no longer receive full support1 from Google’s Enterprise team.
Additionally, Enterprise customers using devices that have passed their EOL date may find
that they cannot manage their devices as expected using the administrator control panel or
leverage new management features released.
- The ability to receive content sent from Google Play for Education and a new user account
through device setup is not guaranteed on models which have passed their EOL date.
- When a tablet is approved for use with Google Play for Education, Google will publish its
EOL date on this page, giving our customers time to make purchase decisions.
- EOL dates may be pushed later than the initial date published, but will never be sooner
than listed, which will be at least 3 years from launch of the hardware.
- Models that have not reached their EOL date will continue to be able to be set up and
receive content pushed from the Google Play for Education site, as well as be managed with
the Enterprise management service.
- The End of Sale date is controlled by the OEM (manufacturer) of the device model and has
no relation to model’s EOL date. Therefore, it will not be shown in the table.
1 See Tablets
and Google Play for Education Technical Support Service Guidelines
Product
|
End of Life date1
|
Nexus 7 (2012)
|
July 2015
|
Nexus 7 (2013)
|
July 2016
|
HP Slate 8 Pro
|
April 2016
|
Samsung Galaxy Tab4 Education
|
April 2017
|
ASUS Transformer Pad
|
May 2017
|
1 Except where noted, these are unofficial End Of Life dates. Official EOL for
these models will be at this date or later.
2 Officially announced End Of Life date.