Essential skipped Android 8.0, allotment to go anon to Android 8.1. For the associates of Essential’s beta program, the 8.1 beta amend is accessible for download!
At the end of January, Essential appear that it would be absence the Android 8.0 amend and instead jump appropriate into Android 8.1. This larboard some users disappointed, but Essential argued that Android 8.1 is safer and bigger than Android 8.0, and it would save time and assets to focus alone on the after version.
The delay for Android 8.1 is about over for Essential Phone owners, as the 8.1 beta is now accessible for download.
Here are the best notable changes in this Android 8.1 beta update.
As Droid Life credibility out, the Essential Phone’s aeronautics buttons accept been redesigned. The aback and app switcher buttons accept been bargain in size, while the home button is two circles rather than aloof one. Additionally, the affair will automatically swap from a ablaze approach to a aphotic approach depending on your wallpaper. If your wallpaper is blithely colored, the phone picks a ablaze mode, and a aphotic approach for darker wallpapers. This is agnate to what Google’s Pixel Launcher does on the Pixel 2.
Once again, this is beta software, and appropriately alone accessible to associates of Essential’s beta program. However, users who are attractive for a abiding absolution should get aflame about these updates, as they point to a advanced rollout advancing soon.
If you actually cannot delay for Android 8.1, feel chargeless to assurance up for the Essential beta affairs at its website.
- Essential has appear Android 8.1 Oreo beta for the Essential Phone.
- This new amend brings Oreo appearance as able-bodied as some new Essential-specific fixes and tweaks.
- Essential chose to skip Android 8.0 updates, instead absorption alone on Android 8.1.
We aloof started rolling out Oreo Beta 8.1 through OTA. This amend includes February security patches, activating agenda and alarm icons, a slow-scrolling jitter fix (beta), and more. 😍 #EssentialPhone
— Essential (@essential) February 14, 2018
- The basic Android Oreo appearance are all on hand, including picture-in-picture mode, acute argument selection, faster startup, etc. Consult our Oreo adviser for all the baked-in appearance of the operating system.
- A beta fix for the “Slow Scrolling Jitter” some Essential Phone owners accept accomplished is included. The fix is still in beta, so it may not be the abiding solution, but users will no agnosticism be blessed to apperceive that Essential is actively alive on the issue.
- The amend additionally brings the February 2018 Android security patch, as able-bodied as activating agenda and alarm icons.
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