Hands-on: What's new in Android Q
Hands-on: What's new in Android Q:
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New Android Beta season, and right on time, Google has released its developer preview of Android Q this week. This is a version of Android that you can flash right now and we've got it running here on our Pixel threes. It's important to note though that you should definitely only download this if you know what you're doing, or have a spare Pixel device laying around.The Q Beta will work across all Pixel phones, all the way back to the original but again please download at your own risk. If you don't have a spare device then good news for you, we are here to give you a first look, let's dive in. Q Beta looks a lot like the current version of Android Pie with a few tiny visual changes. For those of you who use other Google products on the web like Docs, Maps, or even Google flight search, you might've already noticed that Google's been moving everything to a new Product Sans font. On the Q Beta, Product Sans is everywhere.
If you don't like this though, there are some new tools that let you customize the fonts, and even the icon shape and the color bars. You have your standard white, black, green like from the Hangouts app, and even this new purple color. Google's also made the emergency button more accessible by allowing you to now access it from the power button. You can get to it before from the lock screen, but now if you just hold the power button, it's one of the buttons under power off, restart and screenshot. Something I really like about the new Beta so far, is the new battery remaining estimator that's permanent now on the top navigation bar. Before, you would normally see your time remaining estimate when your battery is low, and now you can just see that right next to the battery icon by dragging down the top navigation bar. This is similar to what you find on laptops. There's also a new battery saver mode that you can enable based on your usage habits instead of how low your battery gets.
One of the primary focus of Q so far is privacy. And that's obviously not a surprise given the past few months and years in tech. In particular, location privacy are now broken out into their own setting menu items up front, just like on IOS, you can now give ask permission to access your location only when the app is in use, instead of obliging yes or no. Which is gonna be great for those who want to limit their data sharing to third parties. That should also be better for your overall battery life. The Q Beta will also limit access to other phone identifiers like the IMEI and serial number, Thanks...
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