Ever since the Stagefright develops, Google has religiously been releasing updates each month. Most of the time, those have been filed with bug fixes and security patches, most of which have been uninteresting to customers. This month’s update dump, however, might be thrilling for owners of the latest Pixel 3 phones, with owners reporting palpable performance improvements. As forever, Essential is the first OEM to rush to the frontline, bringing a dissimilar kind of treat to its faithful users.
Monthly updates to Google’s Pixel devices mostly bumps up the security patch level and bring in several minor improvements. Listed in the March update are improvements on camera establish and responsiveness, Bluetooth dependability, and encrypted media playback. One item that has Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL owners thrilled, however, is read/write storage performance.
Users are reporting important increases in performance, particularly when it comes to storage. This is confirmed by benchmarks comparing February’s and March’s updates. In various cases, like in random read/write tests, the pace is more than doubled. One could wonder why it took this long for this optimization to land on phones, but late is better than never.
Essential has also announced that the update is now obtainable for its one and only PH-1 phone. While it doesn’t actually benefit from the improvements specific to Pixel 3, it does have a highlight of its own. This update marks the addition of Digital Wellbeing to the phone, bringing Google’s digital lifestyle check to one more brand.
As always, the update is previously obtainable for supported Pixel phones in both OTA and firmware formats. Aside from the Essential, however, owners of other phones will have to just sit and wait for their OEM to roll it out which, in some cases, is almost never.
The latest software release is now available. Check your Essential Phone for the update! pic.twitter.com/dzlWIPduAN— Essential (@essential) March 4, 2019
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