With different ideas and innovations making its way to smartphones these days, we witness some of the most incredible devices out there. We have seen innovation at its peak in smartphones for the past couple of years. One such innovation is the punch-hole. Punch-hole has become a popular asset in a smartphone these days. Almost every smartphone that launches the other day comes with a punch-hole. This makes up extra space for a larger display with lesser or no bezels at all. This also gives the phones a new and modern look.
While it provides a better aspect ratio and a larger screen, it is also annoying at times. Obviously, you won’t like having a black spot floating around in the middle of the screen when you are watching something or playing games. Well, everything has a good side and a downside. Let’s look at the bright side of the punch hole. Yes, you can put the punch hole into use for other productive stuff. Today’s article will cover one of the most amazing features that you can do with your punch hole.
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Energy Ring for OnePlus 8/8 Pro:
The OnePlus 8 series devices are the first-ever devices by OnePlus to come with a punch hole. While some people appreciate the punch hole design, it sometimes really feel annoying to have a black spot floating around your display. People also use wallpapers to hide the punch hole. Why hide it, when you can use it in a much better and productive way. This is when Energy Ring comes into the picture.
Energy Ring is a free app that lets you know the battery level using the punch hole. Sounds interesting, but how does it work? The app creates an animated ring around the punch-hole cutout, which keeps moving around it and degrades with time as the battery percentage decreases. Well, this is a much cooler and better battery indicator than anything else. This also puts the punch hole into use for some really productive task. Energy Ring comes with many interesting features.
You can easily customize the settings and also tweak the looks of the animated circle. You can choose from different animation patterns and also from a huge list of colors. The app also automatically changes its colors depending on the battery level. It turns red when the battery level is low. There are several animation patterns you can choose from. The app is available for several devices but today we will be talking about some of the specific Samsung devices.
Energy Ring is now also available for the OnePlus 8 and 8 Pro. Well, you can also download the app on any other OnePlus device and mimic a fake punch-hole on your device even if it doesn’t have one. Sounds interesting!
Energy Ring Features:
- Configure the thickness from a width of 1 pixel to a donut thick ring
- The app puts almost 0% load on CPU, as it wakes up only to reflect any change in battery level
- Set the direction the way you like. It can be clockwise/bidirectional/anti-clockwise
- You can hide it while playing movies and games
- It can be configured to change colors automatically depending on the real-time battery level
- Tha app can have a mono color/multiple color segments/gradient (pro)
- You can literally assign any color in the world for your favorite configuration
- Energy Ring has a number of cool animations whenever a power source is plugged into your device
You can download the Energy Ring app for your OnePlus 8 or the 8 Pro and install it to enjoy this beautiful animated live notification/ battery indicator. The app can be downloaded from the link given below:
Download Energy Ring (Play Store)
Stay tuned for further updates on the Energy Ring app and more such interesting articles. Also, share this article with all those people OnePlus 8/ 8 Pro users who have been wondering about such an amazing app.
