{"id":53459,"date":"2017-11-28T06:11:08","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T06:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=53459"},"modified":"2017-11-28T06:11:08","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T06:11:08","slug":"google-releases-final-android-8-1-beta-with-support-for-pixel-2s-hidden-imaging-chip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/technology\/google-releases-final-android-8-1-beta-with-support-for-pixel-2s-hidden-imaging-chip.html","title":{"rendered":"Google releases final Android 8.1 beta with support for Pixel 2&#8217;s hidden imaging chip"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Google releases final Android 8.1 beta with support for Pixel 2&#8217;s hidden imaging chip<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Google releases final Android 8.1 beta with support for Pixel 2&#8217;s hidden imaging chip: Google has released the final preview build of Android 8.1, a small update to Android Oreo due out next month. There isn\u2019t a ton of new stuff in 8.1, but there is one big update coming for Pixel 2 owners: support for the phone\u2019s \u201cVisual Core,\u201d an imaging chip Google included but wasn\u2019t ready to activate at launch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The chip has been sitting dormant, but as of today, developers can start to try it out. The Visual Core is enabled in the final 8.1 preview, allowing camera apps that use the correct API to capture shots using Google\u2019s HDR+ and to do so using the dedicating imaging chip, which should speed things up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">You can download Android 8.1 right away by signing up for Google\u2019s beta program, though we wouldn\u2019t recommend doing it on any device you rely on day to day (I\u2019ve gotten stuck with some frustrating bugs \u2014 and once you\u2019re in the beta, you have to wipe your phone to get out of it). But if developers start playing around with Google\u2019s imaging chip this month, there should be apps ready to take advantage of it when 8.1 is released widely in December.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The Visual Core is the first processor Google has designed for a consumer device. The chip is a dedicated image processor, so when it\u2019s enabled, it should allow the phone to shoot photos quicker than it does today. The phone is already pretty fast, so the bigger news may be that other apps will be able to take advantage of it, letting third parties get the benefits of Google\u2019s clean HDR+ images.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt\">Source:-\u00a0https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/circuitbreaker\/2017\/11\/27\/16706236\/android-oreo-update-final-beta-releases-pixel-visual-core<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/technology\/google-releases-final-android-8-1-beta-with-support-for-pixel-2s-hidden-imaging-chip.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google releases final Android 8.1 beta with support for Pixel 2&#8217;s hidden imaging chip Google releases final Android 8.1 beta with support for Pixel 2&#8217;s hidden imaging chip: Google has released the final preview build of Android 8.1, a small update to Android Oreo due out next month. 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