December’s Quarterly Feature Drop will improve Android 13’s battery stats page

If there is one component of a smartphone that the average person can understand, it is the battery. The battery is full, empty, or somewhere in between. And if you know that the number 4 is greater than the number 2, you can understand that a 5000mAh battery is a larger capacity battery than a 2500mAh battery and would be normally expected to last longer.

The average phone owner knows more about the battery powering his handset than the SoC that drives it

Johnny Appleseed might not understand the different process nodes that are used to manufacture chips, but a battery is used on the most simple of products like a flashlight, for example. Mr. Appleseed might never have had the opportunity to touch a chipset but almost everyone has had to replace a battery sometime during their lives.

How your Pixel 4a (or later) can join the Android 13 QPR beta program

There is only one more beta release left (expected on November 7th) before the stable version of the December Pixel Quarterly Feature Drop is, well, dropped. Keep in mind that if you do join the beta program and you’re not happy because a certain app isn’t working right, you can leave the beta program at a cost. You will have to wipe all of the data off of your phone. But there is a way around this, although it will require you to stick with the beta update until the Quarterly Feature Drop is released.

Now here’s the part that you need to remember. To avoid a data wipe, once the final version of the December Pixel Feature Drop is installed on your phone, you can then return to google.com/android/beta, and once again tap the box that reads “View your eligible devices.” This time, underneath a picture of your Pixel model, will be a box that says Opt-out. Tap on it and you will be removed from the beta program with no penalty. But you need to make sure that you have installed the final version of the December Feature Drop before you Opt-out.