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frustration, but for the most part this is about as good
as Android gets. Tweaks this year are mostly minor,
but welcome. There’s a built-in screen recorder in
case you want to share footage direct from your
phone, which lets you record for as long as you want,
pausing and resuming at any point, and record either
internal or external sound.
The full-screen means no room for a notification
LED, so instead OnePlus has turned to a software
solution: the sides of the display will pulse with light
when a notification comes through, with the colour
actually determined by the app in question. It’s a nice
touch, but still actually easy to miss, as the light only
pulses once – it won’t keep flashing after the fact,Oxygen OS is probably
our favourite Android skin