Wednesday 29 November 2017

Do you try beta updates on your phone?

For a while now, it has been customary for device manufacturers to offer public beta builds of their unreleased software to... well, the public. Apple has a running beta program for iOS releases, Sony has had it for the Xperia flagships and their Android builds, and Samsung currently has one running for the Galaxy S8 and Android 8 Oreo, to name a few.

It's a sort of a deal between the manufacturers and the eager early adopters — users get to see and test the newest software before it's even official, but they have to endure some bugs; developers get tons of testing done for free. In other ...

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