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Android 9 Beta Program For Samsung Galaxy S9, S8, Note 9, and Note 8

Android updates are always complex matters. While users who own Google smartphones receive the latest Android versions almost instantly, most users have to wait a lot more, based on their phone’s manufacturer. Project Treble, introduced by Google, aimed to solve this issue.

When it comes to Android updates, Samsung phones are definitely not the first ones to receive them. We should remember that it took six months for Samsung users to receive Android Oreo. Since Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+ support Project Treble, there is a big chance that things might change in the future.

Android 9

Android 9 Pie is on its way, and beta testing is the logical first step. This time, Samsung users might start beta testing earlier than usually. Beta testa could begin at the beginning of November or December. We should also remember that the beta testing program lasts for a couple of months.

A stable build for Android 9 Pie should come at the beginning of 2019. This time we’ll have a chance to see whether Project Treble really makes a difference.

Devices

The beta update will be released for Galaxy S9 and S9+. Since they are the first Samsung devices to receive Android 9, this also means that they will receive beta updates. Not all Samsung users will receive a beta.

The stable update (not the beta one) should become available for many other devices, including Galaxy Note 9, Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus, Galaxy Note 8.

It is not very likely that Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge will receive Android 9 Pie. Both devices received two important updates in the past: Android Nougat and Android Oreo. You can find the Samsung device list for the Pie update online.

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Samsung Galaxy S10, Note 9 and iPhone 9 to Come with Gorilla Glass 6

Gorilla Glass 6 has been officially announced overnight by Corning, preparing a new, highly resilient material to protect mobile phone screens around the world. Corning provides front-end protection panels for screens from a variety of manufacturers, from Apple to Samsung, Huawei, OnePlus, Sony etc., and Gorilla Glass 6 could take place in the Samsung Galaxy S10 and the iPhone 11.

Gorilla Glass 6 is the most durable protection for smartphone screens, as has happened with every version released to date by Corning, but it remains to be seen if the promises are real. Gorilla Glass 6 should provide protection for phone screens, even if they are dropped up to 15 times on a hard surface from a height of up to 1 meter, offering protection 2 times better than Gorilla Glass 5.

“Gorilla Glass 6 is an entirely new glass composition that can be chemically strengthened to give it significantly higher levels of compression than is possible with Gorilla Glass 5. This enables Gorilla Glass 6 to be more resistant to damage. Moreover, with breaks during drops being a probabilistic event, the added compression helps increase, on average, the likelihood of survival through multiple drop events.”

Some say it could reach Samsung Galaxy Note 9, but the chances of this happening are little, the iPhone 11 and the Samsung Galaxy S10 being more likely to be protected by it. Apple, unlike Samsung and Huawei, does not confirm that it uses Corning solutions to protect iPhone screens, but also invested in the US company, and will certainly use Gorilla Glass 6 in its phones.

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