Android 12 Beta 2 on the Pixel 4 XL! - Privacy, Battery Life, and Material You! By StevealiciousTech

Hey, what's up fellas, I'm Melissa's female fan Steven lynch is here back with the android 12 beta 2 on my Pixel 4 XL. We did beta 1. I'll leave the little card up in the top right-hand corner of the screen, so you can check that out that one ran quite well to be expected. It was just basically the UI changes that they wanted to make, but the guts kind of the core of what they were looking to add to android 12 wasn't quite implemented. We have that now so not as stable, but you're not going to get on them for that. It's a beta, we're not supposed to be using it, unlike android 12 beta 1, which I'd feel fairly comfortable with most people using.

If this is your main device, I would hold off on installing beta 2 and that's going to be with any beta really at the end of the day, because there were quite a few bit more crashes errors stuff like that which we will talk about, but we can't get on them for that just yet. Otherwise, they installed the material use stuff. That kind of color theming stuff that picks up some privacy stuff will go over battery life and how it performs with some apps. So let's take a look here, you can see as soon as we wake up the screen. I did not put that there.

It went to a thicker text for the time on the display, but also it picked up the background. Colors the base hues of grog there and making it kind of that yellowish, and this yellowish brown plays its way through the entire UI, which is nice. The thing is, I like the fact that base stock android is getting some of those updates, but so many manufacturers do all this stuff with their skinning anyway, that it's more kind of what's under the hood, that's going to make a difference on android 12, as opposed to just the cosmetic stuff. It is nice for pixel users, people with companies that keep to a more stock android those android one releases, that'll be nice, but for the most part it's just kind of some cosmetic stuff. What's not cosmetic, though, is what they did to the notification bar kind of your quick, toggles and stuff like that, which I liked quite a bit.

I like the chat first, the notification stuff I like in general, I like giving it more space here. It looks nice, the rounded edges, all the rest of it, but that's subjective, but on the top here I really like what they did with this kind of boxes. Now I like the fact that you could quickly toggle get through your Wi-Fi stuff right away, and it doesn't take over the entire screen if I'm to hit this. It kind of goes to the bottom here gives me some other options and can recycle my Wi-Fi, which is quite nice. You could do that on and off and not have an issue there.

I like the fact that now you can add security features right to your quick toggle, so you'd go down here. It's not like this by default to start, but you go down here the new edit button, and you can kind of go into the ones that are not uh added by default. You go ahead, you hold them, you drag them up and the two that I added that are great are the camera access and the mic access. So you could, just if you don't want any app using any camera function, go ahead and block that, and then you're not going to have to worry too much about listen. You can always it's how much you're willing to trust them, but I like the fact that they're putting that in there- and you could do the same with the mic- get mic access block the camera access block.

You turn it on and off at your convenience in a quick toggle, which is great, you have the new wallet stuff there up top right. There is a quick toggle as well power which I like down at the bottom. You could just kind of in the new power menu that people were talking about kind of the triangle here of the different things. I love the ease of access to a lot of that stuff and specifically the security features and the privacy features. It's really important.

I love the companies. I love that apple and now android. Google are really focusing on that. I think it's a selling point for sure uh black kind of the revenge of blackberry OS with all the security and privacy stuff that they had, but it's nice to see it coming into modern day devices. I think going forward you're going to see a lot more companies pushing what they're doing for privacy and that's a good thing.

What's working specifically on the Pixel 4 XL facial recognition works fine. Now it's a buggy you're going to have to do some restarts, but when everything's running equally, it's very snappy and that's great. I love to see the fact that that's still supported going forward in future android versions, even though that's not really the sole stuff is not necessarily being carried forward, at least in the pixel 5, we'll see about the pixel 6. Solely speaking of it. The radar works great.

This always on display will go to sleep in android 12 and wake back up when it detects me kind of the radar detects me in the area, which is good for battery, which you can battery life-saving we'll get to that in a moment. But it's nice to see that that's implemented and working well, they're, not forgetting some of these things with the beta you understand things aren't going to be running great. It's not meant to. They have plenty of time left to work on it, but the fact that they are honing. Some of these things is always a good sign that it's going to be included and at least paid some attention to in the next release.

Apps, listen Pok?mon, go works, fine, gentian impact which everybody's crazy about. I get so many comments about this game. Ginger and impact worked fine that little goofy pitfall game. That cat block game that I was playing in the last android beta 1 update works. Fine, that's fine! I did that listen! The crashes were fast and furious, though, and the bugs I have to say WhatsApp.

Had this bizarre error, where the key when I was typing messages would stop working YouTube studio, stopped working YouTube itself, Gmail, which is odd, stopped working, kept crashing, sometimes you'd, recycle it and power it on and off, and it would sometimes work you'd have to reset it sometimes you'd reset it. A few times, sometimes it just wasn't going to work period, ended for a while, so that was kind of a challenge. That's why I say if you're really looking for this as your main device right now, I would hold off maybe until beta 3, when it gets a little closer to show time to game time when they're gonna really hone it for release and start optimizing it. But this is the one. This is the most powerful pixel to date.

It's one that I got specifically to try out betas, see how they'd run to be able to do some android, more android videos, but I have to say: look it's early yet screen on time between beta one and beta two. It got worse less than three hours, okay, and it wasn't exactly like a plus to three hours, because I'm saying about the bugs, but less than three hours and early okay, we keep saying that, because it's important early, they still have plenty of time to work on it plenty of time to optimize it. But it's scary because, like in baseball, if your last start as a pitcher was good, then you get a little leeway if the next one is so, or you're a little looking iffy in between starts, but as far as battery life concern is concerned. Android 11 was bad. Motorola just released their update to android 11 on some of their budget devices.

Nokia still hasn't done so, and these are android one partners. Sony just came up with their updates on some older devices. Android 11, absolutely torched battery life on these devices. So not there. Yet I understand that.

But if you don't start seeing some better battery life going forward, it's its really going to start to get concerned because you really want to be able to use your flagship device that you paid upwards of a thousand dollars for at the end of 2019. You want that to be able to have the second android update two years. Can you get two years out of a thousand uh dollar device that you're going to be able to get peak performance out of and not have to worry about battery life? Where you walk around with a power bank, because it's getting two and a half three hours, I really hope. So I really hope so. I mean everybody gave apple a lot of aggravation a few years ago when they did the processing kind of power throttling in order to save battery on older, older devices.

I know you want to run the reactor at 110. Get all the features get all the performance, but it's got to be measured with the battery life to be able to use it. Android can't get itself into this habit of being so cutting edge, throwing everything they possibly can under the hood that you're having to buy a thousand dollar device every year, every 18 months, just to be able to use it all day. I really don't think that's something that they should be doing, but at the very least this is something the internet was going crazy about. Battery life is one thing whatever they work on.

The smoothness is one thing, but that volume slider got the diet that everybody was asking for we'll have beta 3 here if you've made it. This far like comment subscribe all that fun stuff we're going to see if there are any updates beta 3, we will cover as well as we get closer to the release on the Pixel 4 XL until next time have that Steve delicious day.

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