so oneplus is currently in the process of doing a complete ui revamp with
oxygenos 11 which is based off android 11
and that isn't official yet in fact just last week oneplus rolled out a developer
preview for existing oneplus 8 and oneplus 8 pro users they asked
them to try it out see what they think for themselves
because they said they've been working on something new refreshing and
they appreciate feedback which is great i love when companies do that
but as always when you decide to introduce
change especially when it comes to the core of the user experience which in
this case is the operating system the way how the user interacts with the
os when it comes to app navigation and of course going through settings and
just the general usage you're obviously going to generate two
types of audience the first group you know they would love this new
refreshing look they'll be like hey it's something new
we like it and there's gonna be other side like
that's probably gonna go why why change something that's
already working pretty well if it ain't broke don't fix it right so in this
video i'm going to walk you through what's new with oxygenos 11.
walk you through some of the new changes they've done to the ui
and what you can expect when it officially gets rolled out to
your existing oneplus device now i also have to mention that there are certain
resemblances to another operating system that shall
remain unknown actually i will quickly mention that
later in the video but overall i really like it so let's get started
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huge disclaimer this is something that you have to keep in mind as you're
watching this video this is a beta build it's not stable
it's not the final version which is supposedly set to
launch a rollout at the end of 2020 so if you have an existing oneplus 8 or 8
pro smartphone install it at your own risk
personally i'd stick away from it because you want
to make sure that your daily driver is just running fine
you don't want to run to any issues so just a word of caution okay so one of
the features that they've added to oxygenos 11 is the ability to enable
ambient display all day long which naturally drains your battery
significantly and they've added a handful of cool new clock styles
my personal favorite is inside it actually shows how many times you've
unlocked your phone and it leaves a groove on the bar so the more you use
your smartphone that clock widget starts moving
downwards toward that red area and that's just a gentle reminder saying
that you've used your smartphone for way too long you might
want to cut back on that a little bit which i'm slowly trying to do so yeah
i will say that some of the other clock styles are similar to what you'll find
on samsung devices and you'll probably hear me say that over and over again
as i'm walking you through the new ux change the home screen looks familiar to
oxygenos 10 except for the icons they've made it a
bit more minimal and consistent with the circular shape across the board the
notification shade has been updated as well
they've categorized conversations and your other app notifications which is
pretty neat it's also slightly larger making it
easier to adjust screen brightness with just one hand
you'll also notice that os 11 shows the day
and date in both condensed and the expanded mode which i like
in case you haven't noticed oneplus has shifted their company logo
and color scheme a few months ago with a new font choice and a new color palette
they've brought that change to the operating system as well the new font is
called oneplus sans so it's replacing the
iconic slate font that we're used to and i like it perhaps the biggest change
you'll encounter is when you hop into settings
as you can see the title is pretty bold and big and this is something that
you'll start to notice with other primary apps like messages and
dialer and things like that they've shifted the tabs to adjust your
basic settings downwards so that you can easily reach them with one hand
every icon feature has an outline which looks pretty sweet
and yes there are certain resemblances to samsung's one ui in terms of
grouping them but i don't mind it as long as it works
oneplus primary applications like messenger phone dialer and gallery have
received a slight change as well so if you look at the dialer the numpad
is condensed and the spacing is even plus it's easier
to reach versus oxygenos 10 where it just seems
scattered across the gallery app is well organized it's
grouped by dates chronologically and it shows the location as well
i prefer this over google's photos to be honest because the new update for that
app killed the ease of use for me personally
i also really like the new weather app and this is something that i do see
myself using constantly over the google weather app
because there's hourly forecast daily forecast
and it's all organized really really well not to mention with
every new operating system you are going to get a few new wallpapers i personally
like the one that i have right over here it certainly matches the aura glow on
the oneplus 8 definitely overall i really like what
oneplus has done with os 11. this isn't the final build
yet in fact they still have a lot more to port from
the official android 11 build that google is currently working
on so i'm excited to see what the future oneplus devices are especially with the
new os update and the way how phones are
going to be shaping in the next few years because while stock android is
great it's clean and minimal i think it's time for change and and i
think oneplus did something bold people might
not like it that's completely fine but it might take
a little while to get used to now there is one thing that i do have to point out
and it's a little glitch that i noticed on my oneplus 8 so if i pull up the
application drawer it actually doesn't go all in towards
the edges as you can see there's quite a little bit of gap or it doesn't
fully uh expand uh edge to edge i'm not sure
if that's a glitch or if that's done on purpose but that is just a little bit
odd hopefully the final build can address
and fix that issue uh and lastly i really wish and this is
just something that i've been that has been on my wish list for a
really really long time you see with every android device uh there are
these really cool developers working on google
apks google camera mod apks for those phones to significantly
improve the camera experience or the camera quality or the picture quality
coming out of those phones i've done a video on that separately in fact i'll
leave a link down below or you can check it out right over here
it's a huge huge it makes a huge difference when it comes to image
processing if oneplus can only work with those
developers to integrate that into their native camera app
i think that would make that would totally change the smartphone
camera industry as a whole because right now
the cameras on oneplus phones they're great i mean the oneplus 8 pro has a
pretty good camera but one plus eight is
not that great so uh hopefully they can work on something like that again this
is something that's on my wish list hopefully it works out maybe if not you
know one can only dream but either way that's pretty much it uh
this is just a quick short video on what you can expect with oxygenos 11 if you
are an existing oneplus owner if you have a oneplus 7 pro
oneplus 7t or any other oneplus device are you excited for this update have you
tried it uh as well if you have a oneplus 8.8 pro
let me know in the comments down below i'm eber with hardware connects
thank you so much for watching and i'll talk to you guys
in the next one