Android Help What should I buy Thursday (Aug 30 2018) - Your weekly device inquiry thread!

What should I buy Thursday (Aug 30 2018) - Your weekly device inquiry thread!
Pixel 3, non XL
HTC’s U12 Life brings back the headphone jack with a two-tone design
Xiaomi’s President gives us the first look at Xiaomi Mi Mix 3
Teaching the Google Assistant to be Multilingual
There's most likely a system dark theme coming soon
Meet the bilingual Google Assistant with new smart home devices
Sony’s new Xperia XZ3 flagship smartphone brings you a seamless design for an immersive viewing experience
If you are an existing Google Drive paid subscriber and have not been able to upgrade to Google One, here's why.
Android Bug Allows Geolocation of Users
You're now the CEO of a mobile phone manufacturer, what does your bare bones device lineup and release cycle look like?
Huawei's Honor teases upcoming almost bezel-less Magic 2 - it will have no notch, no chin and you can slide out the camera manually. It will also feature Huawei's upcoming 7nm Kirin 980 chip, and could have a voice assistant called Yoyo.
The BlackBerry Key2 LE gives you a physical keyboard for less cash (For anyone who thought, ‘I’d like a Key2, but worse’)
Samsung reportedly supplying foldable displays to Chinese OEMs like Oppo and Xiaomi to 'strengthen the ecosystem' & prep the market for bendable phones
The Xen for Android Project
ZTE Axon 9 Pro Hands-On at IFA 2018
BlackBerry KEY2 LE Hands-On: Less For Less
ZTE’s new flagship Axon 9 Pro features a notch, of course
BLU Products on Twitter: "Statement from our CEO"
Nilay Patel (The Verge) The Pixel 3 leak doing way more traffic on our site than the iPhone XS leak.
HTC U12 Life Hands-on: Last Chance At Life
Samsung foldable displays will be supplied to Oppo and Xiaomi
Xiaomi Poco F1 earns over Rs 200 crore (28.57 Millon USD) under 5 minutes in biggest, fastest sale

What should I buy Thursday (Aug 30 2018) - Your weekly device inquiry thread!

Posted: 30 Aug 2018 04:14 AM PDT

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Pixel 3, non XL

Posted: 30 Aug 2018 09:06 AM PDT

https://imgur.com/a/3KyuY4X

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HTC’s U12 Life brings back the headphone jack with a two-tone design

Posted: 30 Aug 2018 01:56 AM PDT

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Xiaomi’s President gives us the first look at Xiaomi Mi Mix 3

Posted: 30 Aug 2018 09:36 AM PDT

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Teaching the Google Assistant to be Multilingual

Posted: 30 Aug 2018 10:04 AM PDT

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There's most likely a system dark theme coming soon

Posted: 30 Aug 2018 02:11 PM PDT

So I noticed today if I have maps running in Android auto, and I open Android messenger (with dark theme enabled), maps will stutter like it's reloading and switch to a dark theme like I turned my headlights(Android auto will use your head lights to determine dark theme) on even though they're off.

Also, while messenger has dark mode enabled, opening maps will yield a dark background for a split second before it switches to white. So there's obviously some kind of shared resource between messenger/maps relating to the dark theme.

Anyone else found anything like this where apps seem to be connected to the messenger dark theme?

EDIT: this seems to apply to all of Android auto, not just maps.

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Meet the bilingual Google Assistant with new smart home devices

Posted: 30 Aug 2018 10:01 AM PDT

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Sony’s new Xperia XZ3 flagship smartphone brings you a seamless design for an immersive viewing experience

Posted: 30 Aug 2018 04:33 AM PDT

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If you are an existing Google Drive paid subscriber and have not been able to upgrade to Google One, here's why.

Posted: 30 Aug 2018 08:20 PM PDT

Spent some time chatting with Google support staff today and they sent me an email explaining the situation why some paid Google Drive subscribers have not been upgraded to Google One.

Email: https://i.imgur.com/DvYTVUz.jpg

TL;DR: If you have received promotional storage from things like security checkups, local guide rewards, chromebook promotional storage etc., they are still working on a way for users to keep this promotional storage and be upgraded to Google One. There is no timetable on when this will happen, all that I was told was soon^TM

P.S. I tried the trick of allowing your current subscription to expire and then sign up again, but Google One was still not available for me. Guess we'll just have to wait it out.

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Android Bug Allows Geolocation of Users

Posted: 30 Aug 2018 11:51 AM PDT

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You're now the CEO of a mobile phone manufacturer, what does your bare bones device lineup and release cycle look like?

Posted: 30 Aug 2018 10:44 AM PDT

Let's use HTC or maybe BLU as examples. You want to focus your product line as much as you can on necessities - what do you make and when do you make them?

You obviously have a flagship phone - but just one? Do you need two sizes (eg, Pixel, Pixel XL or S9, S9+)? Do you make a "compact" version or is the smaller option just considered compact?

Do you keep a budget/mid level option? Maybe even two different sizes of that?

How about a halo device "above" your typical flagship model? Maybe the Note 9 approach?

And how often do you release these? Is everything an annual release? It kind of has to be these days, doesn't it? Do you think you could get away with doing 18 months? Maybe for the halo option? Maybe your budget line refreshes every 8-10 months.

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Huawei's Honor teases upcoming almost bezel-less Magic 2 - it will have no notch, no chin and you can slide out the camera manually. It will also feature Huawei's upcoming 7nm Kirin 980 chip, and could have a voice assistant called Yoyo.

Posted: 30 Aug 2018 06:57 AM PDT