24 PCWorld OCTOBER 2020NEWS
IMAGE: GOOGLEAndroid 11 is here, bringing minor
changes to Pixel phones
A few other phones are getting previews and betas though. BY MICHAEL SIMONI
f you own a Pixel 2 or later, your phone
can get some new features. After months
of betas, Google has begun rolling out
Android 11 to “select Pixel, OnePlus,
Xiaomi, Oppo and Realme phones,” but if you
don’t own a Google phone, you won’t see
the full version yet.
OnePlus, Oppo, and Realme have
announced that some customers will be
getting access to public betas and previews
while the full version is still being developed.That’s better than usual, but it’s still a far
cry from iOS 14, which has already been
made available on hundreds of millions
of iPhones.
Still, if your phone isn’t on that list, you’re
not missing out on all that much. Android 11 is
very much a maintenance release, and as
such, it has few new features that you’ll
notice. The most obvious is Bubbles, which
lets you respond to a message and see whole
conversations without needing to launch