Last month, CREO launched its first smartphone CREO Mark 1 in India. This phone comes with company’s in-house developed Fuel OS out of the box. This main attraction of this phone was its fuel OS which promised to offer monthly update with new features. Today, the company rolled out its first monthly software update and brought few new features to its Mark 1 device.
Also see: Interesting features of Fuel OS
This software update has added features like Enhance, Data Manager, Selfie Flash and more. Sense and Echo have also been updated. This update also improved the overall performance of this device.
Enhance
Enhance is basically a photo editor complementing the Camera App and the Gallery app of this phone. It allows quick and easy photo editing with available options.
Data Manager
Data Manager is another interesting feature added in this update. It allows a simple and easy way to save your mobile data consumption by regulating data access to apps installed on your phone. It gives proper statistics of data usage and offers quick controls to restrict unwanted apps from consuming mobile data. Company claims that the feature helps in saving up to 30% of mobile depending on the usage of the person.
Selfie Flash
Selfie Flash helps users in the capturing low-light selfie with the front camera of this phone. As there is no front camera flash, capturing good low-light selfie was not possible without artificial light. But, Selfie Flash lights up the 5.5-inch display of the phone for a split second radiating a burst of light while capturing the low-light selfie. It is similar to IPhone’s Retina flash.
Sense
Sense feature of CREO Mark 1 also received update to make it more useful. With this update, it can now perform these things:
- Calculations on the go. Enter Calculations and get real-time results.
- WhatsApp any contact directly with a simple Double Tap on the Home Button
- Add a Phone number to contacts.
- Search for Apps directly on the Play Store
Echo
Echo was also introduced at the time of launch, but company has updated Echo in this monthly software update to make it even more impressive.
- All new hassle free Echo Mode which directs all calls to Echo without the involvement of the user. Echo Mode also comes with smart triggers – such as automatically turning on when the phone is on Silent Mode or when an upcoming meeting is detected on the user’s calendar.
- Taking personalization a step further, Echo now allows users to be able to set different Welcome Messages for different contacts in the phone.
- Echo is not just personalized, it’s also localized! Besides English, Echo now welcomes callers in all new 6 popular Indian languages – Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada.
These were few notable features added or updated in this software update. Along with these features, company has also pushed few performance improvements and big fixes.
As promised, company will be pushing next software update on 13 June. Next update will also bring few new exciting features.
