Google Likely to Release Android 10 For Pixel Range on 3 September

Google could offer its latest Android version this year, before launching the next Pixel phone.

What will Android Q be called?

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Android 10 could make its way to Google’s Pixel phone series as early as next week. This was accidentally revealed by a Google customer support executive, quoted in this Phonearena story earlier this week.

The report suggests that Google will release the new version to existing Pixel phone users on 3 September, which is around a month before the next Pixel phone will be announced. Android 10 will be Google’s first flavour without any dessert names, as the search giant is taking Apple’s cue, to name Android with numbers from now on.

It’s worth noting that customer executives have prior information about releases but Google is yet to officially confirm this leak. So till then we’ll take this news with a pinch of salt.

As you can see here, one user with initial D reached out to the Google support staff, wanting to know when their Pixel 3A will get Android 10.

Surprisingly, A, the support staff replied to this query by informing that Android Q (or 10) will be rolled out to devices from 3 September onwards.

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Android 10 has been available in beta mode over the past couple of months, with a slew of new features added to the upcoming version, most notably, support for dark mode finally making its way to Android as well. These reports gained further credibility when OnePlus also informed that its Android 10 update could also roll out to existing users on 3 September.

Google claims that Android 10 will keep security and privacy as its central focus. It has nearly 50 new features focused on security and privacy.

For instance in the privacy section under Settings, you can find a new Location section that gives you more transparency and control over the location data you share with apps. You can now choose to share location data with apps only while they’re in use.

Or you can choose to have it randomise you MAC address of the device so that malware will find it difficult to track you.