The new design drops the traditional blue color, frowning face, and QR code in favor of a simplified screen that looks a lot more like the black screen you see when Windows is performing an update.

The new Material 3 Expressive design brings larger buttons ... It typically shows a plain black screen with the time, date, battery percentage, and notification icons. While Google recently ...

During testing, it appears green, but the screen will eventually be black when it rolls out to ... all the way to the present design scheme kicked off with 2012's Windows 8. The color, too ...