Creo Mark 1 Fuel OS: Here are all the updates released till now

A few months ago, Creo was one among several smartphone entrants in the market. However, the Bengaluru-based startup decided to distinguish itself from others by focusing on the software with updates every month. It’s been four months and four software updates are out as promised. Creo’s approach has been user friendly by taking feedback of local users to make a better product every month. This is an undertaking that they cannot go wrong on. The Mark 1 is a software based phone, and Creo plans to open up the software platform they are making better every month, available to other manufacturers as well. Every effort Creo has taken in this month’s update, is aimed at improving the user experience. Whether it works or not, this is a customer-centric effort at differentiating their product from an overcrowded smartphone market. Let’s take a look at them one by one. Update 4 Creo’s latest update comes to one of the most basic feature – calling. The latest updates bring to users a faster Dialler and smoother Sense experience with optimisations and fixes. Besides, other improvements include some bug fixes related to importing contacts, echo and call recording, and improvements on network stabilisation, among others.  Update 3 The latest company update brings two new features – Lock apps and Hidden media. App Locking: Lock apps feature lets you lock and unlock the device using a pattern or pin. We tried using the feature, which worked quite well. The feature is handy when a user has to pass on the device to someone and don’t want them to even accidentally snoop on content. Under notifications, there’s a simple toggle that lets you opt for App locking. In case you forget the password, Creo will instantly let you access your content. For instance, it instantly sent use an image of the password pattern on the registered email id.  Hidden Media: We all have some wacky images that we don’t want friends to sneak into while browsing through our Images Gallery. Creo has introduced ‘Hidden Files’to enable just that. The file or data once moved will be accessible or viewable only in the hidden files folder that is protected by a lock pin. Update 2 In the form of its second update, Creo added customisable Audio Effects. It let users natively change sound effects for apps and also system software such as games, streaming and so on. It introduced a new and quicker way to enhance media listening experience. It comes with five presets namely Balanced Acoustic, Bass Boost, 3D Surround Sound and Clear voice. These settings can be used as starting points to fine tune the audio settings as per one’s liking and can also be saved as multiple ‘Custom Audio Effects’ to work across apps and beyond.  Update 1 The company released a slew of updates a month after launching the product. Take a look at each one of them below: Data Manager: The Data Manager allowed users to get granular control over what applications use data. A doughnut chart showed how much data was consumed in the previous month, with a breakdown of how much of that data was consumed by apps running in the background. The app also shows a handy list of how much data each app consumed while in background mode. You can toggle whether or not the application is allowed to download data when in the background mode. Toggling these settings will interfere with the updates and notifications of the particular applications. Enhance: This is a photo manipulation utility with filters similar to Instagram. A simple to use menu allows adjustments, transformations and vignettes. After manipulating an image as per requirement, the whole set of edits on an image can be saved as a filter. The sequence of edits are added as a filter in the default menu, and then you can tap on the particular filter once, to apply the same set of edits on any other image. This gives some kind of rudimentary batch editing feature, allowing users to conveniently edit a series of photos that require the same treatment.  Echo: Echo is the in-built answering machine. At the launch of the phone, there was only one default pre-recorded voice prompt, in English. With the update, the company added more languages. Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Telegu, Marathi and Bengali have been added. You can also record and keep custom welcome messages. These can now be served according to the caller, or groups of callers. For example, friends and colleagues can have different welcome messages. If you regularly schedule your meetings on Google Calendar, then the phone automatically reroutes all incoming calls to the answering machine. Selfie Flash: This is a feature that boosts exposure through software algorithms. There is no front flash, but in low light conditions, there is now a one tap flash button on the side, that prevents the photos from being too dark. Sense: Sense is an advanced search feature. It is modeled on the search functionality of the iPhones. There are some utilities that sense does not seem to recognise as of now, the homescreen widgets are an example we found. Sense now supports WhatsApp integration, after this update. The Sense interface has also been updated with a space for pinning most used contacts, so you can just bring them up with a two finger swipe down any time. There are as some new enhancements that take Sense in a direction even Apple has not gone. Sense took some baby steps into become some kind of universal input space for all kinds of tasks. You can enter a number and add a contact from the “search” bar. It is also possible to feed in arithmetic, and use Sense as a calculator. There were minor fixes on a screen flickering issue in the adaptive brightness mode, and battery drain enhancements. In order to update FUEL OS, Creo users can head to the ReFuel app on CREO Mark 1, tap on the top left menu followed by the ‘Updates Tab’ and then ‘Check for updates’.