Republished on February 15th with a new report into Android 16 Beta 2, bringing Google’s Pixel even closer to Apple’s iPhone.

But that’s not the real story in Google’s report card for last year. The real story is what’s being done to lock down Android, and why you’ll need a newer model phone in 12-weeks time.

Google has confirmed that apps can request access to the world-facing and the selfie-camera on Android XR headsets.