At the beginning of February, news appeared that Andy Rubin's company Essential was closing and would no longer produce
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Essential engineers opened a thread with r-preview inin your GitHub repository. This is a commit that will allow the Essential Phone to receive Android 11 Developers Preview support. In the coming days, the company will publish the “source code” of the firmware and the system can be installed on a smartphone.
Aaaaaand, confirmed that Essential is testing this with the Android 11 GSIhttps: //t.co/axTVj7vOg3
- Braden Farmer (@ farmerbb1) February 23, 2020
Naturally, wait for a stable version of the OS onthe device is not worth it, but thanks to the support of Android 11 Developers Preview, third-party developers in the future will be able to create firmware for Essential Phone based on this OS.
Let's remember that Android 11 supports the fifth networkgeneration (5G.) In addition, the system boasts improved performance, advanced security settings, a screen recording function, an airplane mode that no longer turns off Bluetooth, quick access to cards in Google Pay and much more.
Source: XDA
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