Android 11 Beta 3 - Everything New || Gadgetsinfo180

Android 11 Beta 3

  Hi, everyone Android 11 Beta 3 was released yesterday to developers and Beta testers and this is the final version or the final Beta or the release candidate that should be basically finalized. So that it would be the same as what comes out to the public in a few weeks to a month or so according to google.

 Now this particular version was fairly large and you'll see here it was the first time I installed it on this device but it was 1.73 gigabytes and it's available for the Pixel 2, Pixel 2 XL, 3, 3 XL, 3A, 3A XL, Pixel 4 and 4XL that I have here. Now technically it should work on the Pixel 4A as well that I have here and some Samsung devices but if you have a different manufacturer other than a google phone Samsung Oppo Oneplus those companies they have to push out those particular updates.

Android 11 Beta 3 Updates

 So they should have them but it's up to them to push those out so hopefully you see those already or see those soon now the build number on this particular update you can see is RPB 3.200720.005 and the first change is they've changed sort of how they show the build number in the notification drawer here. So at the top, you'll see it's cut off a little bit and then we have a divider line with our media player at the top and this is one of the first changes with Beta 3.

 So we have our media player here in our quick settings and we can stack this up to five of them so we can swipe between youtube as you can see here or music or whatever else you have that's allowed to play media on the phone and you should see it here. You can also swipe away media alerts now and then there's another setting in here as well so if we swipe this over tap on the little setting icon you'll see that we have a new update or a new option that says hide player when the media session has ended the player allows you to resume a session from the expanded quick settings panel.

 So you can turn this on if you won't turn it off whatever you like but that's a new option that's showing up. Now the power menu has been changed again now they've changed this a few times throughout the Beta so if we press and hold power you'll see at the top we have emergency power and bug report for the Betas and then I have quick access to my home cameras and things like that which is nice.

 But if we press on the power you'll see we have a square menu of or two squares that make a rectangle of power off and restart so we've got these in sort of a square now and then if we tap off of this it may not be arranged the same way for you if you're running Beta 3.

Read this:  Android 11 Beta 2 – All The New And In-Development Features Are Found || GadgetsInfo180

 Android 11 Beta 3 Named By Easter Egg

 Depending on if you have this home section there it may or may not be there so you may have power to the right just depending on what you have on your display. Now with this version, Android has finally added their Easter Egg so let's take a look at that we'll go into our settings here and you can see I had pixel buds previously connected some of these are changing around a lot but it's showing you what you previously had what you're connected to but let's go down to our Easter Egg here.

 So if we go to about phone then we scroll down to tap on Android 11 that the top tap on Android version 11 keeps tapping and now we have our Easter Egg and it's a deal that we can turn up to 11. So we can keep turning it won't let me here we can turn it back and forth and then you turn it back and you've got an 11. So you can literally turn it up to 11 which is kind of clever and then you saw a little cat down here at the bottom and there's another Easter Egg as well.

Android 11 Beta 3 Having Cat Controls Option

 So if we go back home press and hold the power button and we've got different options here we now can have cats so if we go to add a control we can add a control or edit a control tap see other apps under see other apps we've got cat controls so if we tap on cat controls let's have a water bubbler and a food bowl that's good enough we'll hit save and now if we tap on the home we've got cat controls.

Read this: What Will Happen After 5G? | Gadgetsinfo180

Android 11 Beta 3 Having 100 New Emoji

 So we can swipe up for the water bubbler and we can tap to refill the water bowl or the food bowl rather and then if we go home sometimes the cats will have conversations and show up in your notifications. So it's pretty interesting to have that little Easter Egg in there but the cats are back so that's something that's new now if you like emoji those have been updated for Unicode as well so if you go into your messenger whatever you're using and you go to your emoji you should now have over 100 new emoji in here.

 So there's over 100 new emoji and different skin types and skin colors so there are a ton of new ones throughout here of course if you use a lot of those you'll appreciate that but they continually update them to comply with Unicode standards and they've added a bunch of them to do that. Now there are two more chances in this particular update so again if we go to settings and then we go to our developer options so we'll go to system go to advanced goto developer options if you have that turned on and then we're going to scroll way down until we see the smooth display.

 Now you can search for this it makes it a lot easier so I'll just do that smooth display and as you can see there's smooth display this forces the display on the Pixel 4 and 4 XL into 90 hertz, of course, this is going to reduce the actual battery overall because it won't be variable but you have the option to force the display onto 90 hertz again.

 So it's nice that that's back and then finally you may have already seen it in my search here there are now exposure notifications now the nice thing is it says to turn on the exposure notifications install a participating app it's off by default and there's no way to turn it on unless you have an app that wants to actually use it. So not only do you have to install the app you have to verify that app allows the app and then turn this on to allow this as well so it's sort of a double layer of protection in turning that on so you'll have that option in the future if you have exposure notifications and apps that comply with this sort of API built-in and that's everything new as compared to Beta 2 and Beta 1.

Read this: IOS 14 Vs IOS 13 Beta - Was It Really That Bad?

 There are a bunch of other changes as well which I'll cover when it finally comes out if there's a lot of different changes but overall I've been using this for a day and it seems fairly smooth everything's been nice and fast it's been very stable at least over the day or so apps are opening quickly everything from the camera you can snap a picture quickly everything seems to respond very quickly and I haven't had any issues as far as that goes.

 So I've been using it for youtube as well as social media and it just seems to work fast and like you would expect now I would expect a feature drop as well next month hopefully with this version as well I'm not sure if it will be in addition to this but supposedly there will be a feature drop in September.

 As far as overall battery I wouldn't expect any increases at this point with this particular device I think it's as good as it's going to get but in general, it's been lasting me a couple days as I've been using it as my secondary device but overall it seems to be doing pretty well you'll see this says three days left. So I tend to put it on the pixel stand at night so that seems to keep it topped off and I haven't had any issues but in general, it performs very well and I think it'll be a good update.

 It won't be a huge game-changing update compared to Android 10 but Android 11 is a nice update and if you want to try the Beta I don't see a reason not to as long as you don't mind having to wipe the phone later on.

Read this: Samsung Galaxy Note 20 - The Full Reveal!

Read this:  Sony WF1000XM3 Vs WH1000XM3 - Which To Buy?