The new Android 16 is now available for Google phones!

Google has announced that we will be able to download the new Android 16 to our mobile devices between April and June of this year. Of course, the new feature will initially only be available for Google's Pixel family of mobile devices. Therefore, it is not surprising that the first public test version of the new Android 16 mobile operating system is already available for them. The new feature is available for Pixel 6, Pixel 7, Pixel 8 and Pixel 9 phones.

The final version of the Android 16 mobile operating system will bring many new features. Google has prepared two different sliders for it, one for notifications and one for quick access to settings. The new notification slider no longer takes up the entire screen, but only half. This means that the open application is visible in the background. This can be recalled by swiping your finger from the bottom up. Using two fingers, we will call up the slider for quick access to key settings.

The icons of the new Android operating system will be slightly smaller compared to the current ones. Another extremely interesting functionality will be added to this. The new Android 16 will bring full support for the terminal application (Terminal) for Android. The new feature will allow users to install a virtual machine running the open source Linux operating system. The latter will even have support for graphics acceleration. Of course, users will also find other options of the Linux operating system, such as disk usage tools, network packet routing, a system recovery partition, and much more. The novelty should even allow running the Chrome OS system, which is becoming more and more popular.