At this point, we've apparent Samsung's eyes for Android Oreo on both the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy Note 8. Just aftermost month, Samsung opened its Oreo Beta Program for the S8 to the public. A few canicule ago, we acquired and abundant a leaked beta body of Oreo for the Note 8. While both of these updates accept some acute new features, there are consistently tweaks we hoped to see that didn't accomplish the cut.
We've already covered the abounding account of new appearance in Android Oreo on the Samsung devices. In addition, we accept a active account of bugs in the Oreo beta for both the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy Note 8. In our analysis accoutrement these beta builds, we began to anticipate about what Samsung should accept added to accomplish the updates alike better.
Many of the appearance listed beneath are options users accept longed for on Samsung phones for years. Others are artlessly baby tweaks that assume accessible accustomed the accepted administration of the Samsung Experience UI. Who knows, maybe we'll see these things added in Samsung Experience 10 and Android P?
1. Custom Figure Packs (From Google Play)
An oldie, but absolutely additionally a goodie. Samsung has continued captivated affirmation to the best feature-packed Android skin, but they additionally accept yet to accommodate this basal customization option. Adding a custom figure backpack to your home awning is one of the best accessible beheld differentiators amid iOS and Android. While you can add any figure backpack to your S8/Note 8 application a custom launcher, why not accomplish this a banal affection of Samsung Experience 10?
Many would altercate that Samsung already has their own affair store, which incorporates custom figure backpack support. The Samsung Affair Abundance has figure packs, but the affection and alternative anemic in allegory to what you will acquisition in the Google Comedy Store.
If Samsung is anxious with the acquirement earning potential, they should accomplish it a bit easier for developers to alteration figure backpack APKs from Google Comedy to the Samsung affair engine.
There are a cardinal of Android OEMs already accumulation this affection in their banal launcher, including BlackBerry, OnePlus, and Razer. Samsung should absolutely accede jumping on the appearance actuality — their users would adore the added customization options.
2. Matching Home Awning Colors to Wallpaper
With the Galaxy S8 Oreo beta, Samsung alien the advantage to bout the lock awning alarm to your wallpaper's blush scheme. This attenuate changes looks accomplished with bright wallpapers and makes your lock awning angle out.
Unfortunately, Samsung forgot about the home awning aback designing this new feature. It alone makes faculty to bout the banal home awning clock, date, and acclimate icons to the wallpaper blush arrangement as well.
Pulling the colors from the wallpaper for this purpose is absolutely simple, article already implemented by Activity Launcher for theming purposes. Hopefully, Samsung will see the abeyant actuality and accomplish this accession in Android P abutting year.
3. Remappable Bixby Button
The Bixby button has been a antecedent of altercation aback the Galaxy S8 debuted in aboriginal March of 2017. While some users acquisition Bixby useful, abounding don't acknowledge the admittance of a committed accouterments button for the articulation assistant. Abounding third-party developers accept appear apps that acquiesce users to remap the accouterments button to accession action.
Samsung afresh added the advantage to annihilate the Bixby button altogether, but this makes the button around useless. Instead of killing the button absolutely or application it alone for Bixby, why not action a custom remap action in the banal settings?
4. New S Pen Appearance for Note 8
As anon as we downloaded the Note 8 Oreo beta, I bound rushed to analysis for any new S Pen features. Considering that the S8 and Note 8 are so agnate in body quality, we were absolutely acquisitive to see one or two new different appearance in this area. Sadly, Samsung aghast anybody on this front.
Live Message is absolutely a air-conditioned idea, but alfresco of that, we haven't apparent accurate accession in the Galaxy Note pen-specific software in a while.
One of the best appearance specific to the S Pen was absolutely removed a few years back. The aboriginal four iterations of the Galaxy Note calendar accustomed affiliation with Wolfram Alpha to consign computations and conversions.
Wolfram Alpha, for those not aware, is a web-based computational ability agent from the makers of Mathematica. With this feature, users could author bottomward a algebraic botheration or about-face and export it to Wolfram to get a quick solution. It is acutely advantageous for acceptance and teachers, but additionally for accidental users defective a quick assemblage conversion, so it would be nice to see Samsung accompany this affection aback with alike bigger user-facing integration.
5. Live Focus for Galaxy S8 (Software)
One of the better new appearance on the Note 8 is the accession of bifold cameras and the Live Focus feature. The abstraction abaft Live Focus is that you can adapt the becloud abaft your accountable to accomplish the ideal account look.
When Samsung appear this feature, abounding Galaxy S8 users were apprehensive if they ability anytime see this advantage appear to their phones in a approaching update. The bifold cameras comedy a ample role in the Note 8 Live Focus processing, but this aftereffect can additionally be accomplished in software only.
With the accession of the Galaxy S8 Oreo update, we scoured the Camera app for any assurance of Live Focus. The affection was boilerplate to be found. While we would adulation to see Live Focus on the S8, it seems a bit absurd that this will absolutely occur. The alone affirmation in favor of a software-only adaptation of Live Focus came from a Samsung abutment representative's affirmation aback in October.
Perhaps Samsung will accord the bodies what they appetite and accommodate this affection with Android P.
What Did You Hope to See in Samsung's Oreo Beta?
Those are our bristles better omissions from the Samsung Oreo update. Accumulate in mind, both the S8 and Note 8 Oreo builds are currently in beta. New appearance could be added in the abiding release. We will absolutely accumulate you up to date on any new developments and awning the official absolution in abyss aback it drops.
Which appearance would you like to see Samsung add in Experience 10 and Android P?
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