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6 Best Features of 'Android O:' Geared Towards an Improved User Experience

Apr 12, 2017 04:33 AM EDT

There are reports coming out that the upcoming major update, Android O will be soon available. At the same time, developers of the said OS guaranteed that the features are even better now, some of these are:

Efficient Battery: The upcoming major update Android O will limit the activities of apps in the background. Also, the operating system itself will not refresh the apps more than needed.

Wi-FI: Next OS update is adding a Neighbor Awareness Networking feature in its system. Which means that the upcoming major update Android O offers every user to communicate with one another without having an internet access.

Adaptive Icons: This Android O feature, "adaptive launcher icon" allows a user to customize the shape of every icon. Icons come in different shape such square, circle, and squircle.

Notification Channel: With the upcoming major update, the user can control the notification and pop-ups by filtering it thru alerts or thru topic. This Android O feature has the power to snooze notifications in 15 to 60 minutes. Also, it can free up space in notification shade due to its ability to trim and minimized notification cards.

Picture-in-picture: In an upcoming major update, it allows every user to enjoy video viewing while using another app. This Android O feature is like a picture-in-picture on the Youtube wherein it grants an action to play a video in a smaller overlay window.

Multi-display Support: In this Android O feature, it is a more enhanced support for the upcoming major update. It means that a user can move from one activity to another smoothly.

Having all these best features, Google said that this upcoming major update, Android O will have more features in the future. As of now, let's just wait and hope that it is better than any OS update available in the market.

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