If you’ve bought – or are thinking about buying – the Essential Phone, this could be of interest to you. Essential is now conducting a bi-weekly AMA Reddit session, where members of its team field questions from fans of the brand.
The most recent one has now concluded and it brought forward quite a bit of interesting information. The most significant of which is that Android Oreo is coming (as a beta), so it shouldn’t be too long before the update is available
“…our QA team is in the process of testing Android Oreo as we speak to insure there are no regressions on the device. We are making great progress and target to have public beta available here within several weeks that you can try out before we release globally. We will make sure to publicly announce as soon as the Beta is available.”
Nightmode & Fingerprint Gestures
Alongside Android Oreo, the Essential Phone will also benefit from nightmare and fingerprint gestures. According to Essential, these features simply were not available for when the handset launched with Android Nougat.
"[Night mode] depends on HWC2 which wasn’t ready for this chipset in the N timeframe. Good news though, you’ll have it in O (I love this feature too!) [Fingerprint gestures are] in progress but didn’t make it into today’s OTA. We’re targeting the next one.”
NO MORE STUTTERING
Multiple users have noted that their Essential Phones have this weird stuttering bug. Thankfully, Essential has noted the complaints and is about to issue an update to resolve this problem.
“…yes we are aware of the issue related to the display touch and have a patch from Qualcomm we are testing internally. I saw the fix in action literally yesterday and the improvement is night and day. I think you guys will be really happy with it. Our plan is to get this out in one of the next upcoming OTA updates releasing a few weeks. Stay tuned!
“…it is related to touch jitter, in part coming from non-uniformity of the coordinates getting fed into the upper layers. This device has in-cell touch, which improves noise immunity overall and makes the display thinner, but is requiring some extra tweaking to get things just right. The fix to the slow scrolling jitter is the first of several touch improvements we are working on, but we’ll be rolling them out one at a time as soon as they are ready.”
Essential Phone White is COMING
Essential will also release a new, white version of the Essential Phone inside the next couple of weeks. If you haven’t seen the white version of the Essential Phone, well… you’re in for a treat – it looks awesome.
Unfortunately, the Ocean Depths (a kind of teal/blue colour) and stellar grey (grey, basically) are still a ways off yet. Guess Essential is waiting for demand to pick up before investing in more production-intensive processes.
You can read the full AMA right here.
by rgoodwin via Featured Articles
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