17 New Features in Android 8.1 for the Essential Phone

After testing a series of Android 8.0 builds, Essential hit the reset button and jumped to Android 8.1 Oreo. The first 8.1 beta is already live, so we installed it on our PH-1 and started to dig in. The features from the 8.0 betas are all still there, plus a few goodies specific to the updated version. We'll highlight the standouts here. Essential's reason for jumping to 8.1 was that 8.0 had several stability problems that they believed were addressed with the small update. So nothing major, but it's good that Andy Rubin & Co. are getting their flagship on the latest and greatest Android... more

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