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hello again ladies and gentlemen I'm Joe handy from Android Authority comm and the razor phone 2 is getting its Android Pi update in the very near future but Razer sent us a copy to play with so we thought we would show you around so here is the razor phone 2 with Android Pi visual changes is as good of a place to start as any the update doesn't change all that much in terms of visuals in fact most of the stuff is in the same place as it was in Android Oreo however there are a couple of notable changes the first is the introduction of Android PI's swipe gestures the recent apps button is gone and you can now swipe up to access both the app drawer and the recent apps Razer did Institute a small change to the system though in stock Android you have swipe up to access the recent apps and then full swipe up to access the app drawer however on the razor phone you swipe up from the soft key area to access the recent apps and then swipe up on the dock area to access the app drawer it's a small change but I personally think this is way better than the way stock Android does it you can of course turn it all off by going into the settings thin system then - gestures and then turn off these swipe from the home button setting to go back to the old-school soft key formats about the only other noticeable visual change belongs to the settings menu it has larger more colorful icons with a more material design aesthetic some may like it and some may not but it's there to stay of course the razor phones who is getting all of the under the hood changes that come with Android Pi that includes hallmark features like digital well being adaptive battery and other Android PI goodies as far as we can tell Razer didn't add any new features that didn't already come packaged with the OS updates but Razer certainly didn't remove anything either we're not going to reinvent the wheel in this one if you want to check out all of the under the hood changes in Android Pi we have our hands on video linked up in the video description below or you can click on that little banner at the top there we've had the update for only about a day or two so we didn't get to do a whole lot of testing we tried a few games messed around with the UI and even popped in a SIM card to make a few phone calls some features like adaptive battery take much longer than a couple of days to start showing real differences however from what we can tell everything seems to be working just fine in fact the only major difference in terms of usability are the colourful settings menu and the digital well-being app along with the new homescreen gestures of course that's certainly not a bad thing it's nice to have some consistency anyway things look on this end we didn't have any problems with this update and neither should you well that's all the information we have about the update itself so let's talk about when you can expect it to roll out the unlocked version of the razor phone - should receive the update on February 27th while the carrier version is getting the update on March 13th unfortunately AT&T folks have to wait until April 4th and both AT&T and carrier updates are subject to change depending on how long it takes the carriers to test and roll out the update and that about does it for this one folks if you like this video you know what to do and if not you still know what to do we have the written version in the video description below along with our Android Pi video if you want to see those as always thanks for watching everybody and have a wonderful day