Android 8.0 Oreo: Do You Need It?

The latest version of Android, Android 8.0, is finally official, and obviously people have started wondering they should be upgrading to it or not, except for Samsung users(who are used to waiting for up to 6 months for the updates). If you’re one of those people wondering whether you really need the latest Android version or not, here’s a hint to the correct answer: it starts with a ‘y’ and ends with an ‘s’, unless you hate good performance, better battery life and loads of other features.
I would be providing you proper reasons to help you make the right choice. So, without waiting for the Samsung users to get the updates, let’s start off with the reasons why you need and should definitely go for Android 8.0, Oreo:
- Battery Life- No matter which phone you use, battery would always be a problem for you. And as human beings, this dissatisfaction with things being the way they are, let us to evolve, always needing change. Keeping this in mind, Oreo would consume 10–20% lesser battery by letting the user have more control over how apps run in the background. In addition to that, the apps which keep coming back are enlisted in the notification bar, thus letting the user control it. Yay! More fun on Snapchat!
- Performance- What’s the point of an upgrade if the performance stays the same, right? This is exactly what Google thought when they made Oreo noticeably faster than the previous versions. With lesser boot time, and apps opening faster, the improvement is commendable. The cache management is also betting with automatic deletion of cached data when the phone gets slow. Checkmate, CleanMaster.
- Notifications- The notifications would now be in the form of channels which would give a great deal of customization options to the users. Additionally, you can choose to snooze(sick rhymes, I tell you) for 15 minutes to 2 hours. “Look ma! I haven’t muted the family group on WhatsApp!”
- Picture-in-Picture- With this feature, apps would show video in a pop-out window even after closing the app using the home button. While Samsung takes months to catch up with the latest Android updates, this is where Samsung leads since they had launched this feature with Note 2 and Note 10.1. What’s more is that this feature was the brainchild of CyanogenMod team who rolled a similar feature out called cornerstone.
- Notification Dots- Phones with large displays would have big smiles right now because much like iOS, icons in Oreo would have visual indicators when a new content shows up. These dots aren’t specific numbers, though. Upon pressing on these dots for a while, you can easily see a preview of that alert and swipe it off right away without having to go the primary notification bar.
- Project Treble- In an attempt to make the updates instantly available to everyone, Oreo introduced Project Treble which aims at separating handset makers’ customization from the core OS. This would be a game changer if it is applied properly.
- Better Audio- With a new low latency API called AAudio, the audio quality of Android would be better than ever. And if your headphones support LDAC, be even more happy because Google has added Sony’s LDAC protocol which provides CD quality audio while using Bluetooth. The catch is that only Sony peripherals support LDAC as for now. Things would hopefully change with this update, though.
There’s a lot more to this update which you definitely need to check out so go ahead and upgrade your Android OS when it is available for your device. Speaking of Android, BrainMobi is a leading android app development company. If you need your Android app developed by mobility experts, contact us at sales@brainmobi.com.
