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    December 03, 2018

    Android Help Moronic Monday (Dec 03 2018) - Your weekly questions thread!

    Moronic Monday (Dec 03 2018) - Your weekly questions thread!

    Posted: 03 Dec 2018 03:16 AM PST

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    Samsung used a DSLR pic as A8 shot

    Posted: 03 Dec 2018 08:30 AM PST

    iOS notifications have been improved, but Android's are still better

    Posted: 03 Dec 2018 04:24 AM PST

    Google Removed Two Popular Cheetah Mobile And Kika Tech Apps After Report

    Posted: 03 Dec 2018 05:14 PM PST

    (X-Post) Google Photos preparing to support Samsung motion photos

    Posted: 03 Dec 2018 01:43 PM PST

    Apparently coverage of the Snapdragon 855 leaked a bit early

    Posted: 03 Dec 2018 06:19 PM PST

    Google uploads Pixel ‘Sounds’ app to Play Store, reveals visualizer & downloadable ringtones - 9to5Google

    Posted: 03 Dec 2018 06:43 PM PST

    December Factory Images up for Pixels

    Posted: 03 Dec 2018 10:15 AM PST

    Barnes & Noble announces $50 Nook 7-inch tablet, an Amazon Fire 7 alternative with the Play Store

    Posted: 03 Dec 2018 10:02 AM PST

    [Essential] December's software release is here

    Posted: 03 Dec 2018 12:23 PM PST

    Huawei's StorySign app can translate kids’ books into sign language

    Posted: 03 Dec 2018 04:37 PM PST

    So *what if* Samsung does decide to eventually get rid of the head phone jack?

    Posted: 03 Dec 2018 07:11 AM PST

    Samsung has been on point with their hardware ticking off the boxes that many Android power users want (Bixby is the exception). Awesome screens, great camera for video and pictures etc. You get the picture.

    As more manufacturers and OEM's move away from including the headphone jack, Samsung is the one of the last remaining OEM's that sell enough devices that include the jack to matter.

    In the event Samsung does decide to ditch 'the jack' eventually... where would users turn to?

    Right now, in my own household my wife has a Pixel 2 and I have a Samsung S7 edge. I use both wired and wireless headphones and I find both convenient for their use cases. I use wired at work because I can keep a cheap pair in my lunch container and not have to worry about charging anything.

    At home, I use wireless headphones (Bluetooth). For some reason, I hate being tethered to a wire when I'm working at home.

    I plan on upgrading my phone soon and have had to think about my headphone situation should I get a phone with no jack. Do I go all in with USB-C headphones or do I stick with Samsung simply because they have committed to keeping the jack around.

    Or would you accept the fact that soon enough all manufacturers will move away from the jack and begrudgingly accept wireless or USB-C headphones?

    What if Samsung being the last remaining manufacturer does decide to ditch the jack, where will users turn?

    Now: Edited for repetitiveness

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    Huawei opens a Vulnerability Reward Program with a max payout of ~$143,000

    Posted: 03 Dec 2018 10:10 AM PST

    Bringing eSIM to more networks around the world

    Posted: 03 Dec 2018 12:33 PM PST

    Action Launcher v38 beta adds Pie styling, more granular Quicktheme settings, and more

    Posted: 03 Dec 2018 12:04 PM PST

    [Exclusive]: Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus renders and 360-degree video

    Posted: 03 Dec 2018 02:42 AM PST

    OnePlus to open its first Indian R&D facility in Hyderabad

    Posted: 03 Dec 2018 08:36 AM PST

    Latest Pixel 3 offer includes Pixel Stand and extra earbuds

    Posted: 03 Dec 2018 12:54 PM PST

    Android Security Bulletin—December 2018 Released!

    Posted: 03 Dec 2018 10:23 AM PST

    Announcing Google Play’s “Best of 2018”

    Posted: 03 Dec 2018 12:14 AM PST

    ICYMI: Hangouts updates

    Posted: 03 Dec 2018 10:39 AM PST

    A bunch of information/clarification came out over the weekend that I think answers a lot of questions.

    First off, 9to5Google updated their article with a Google PR statement:

    In March 2017, we announced plans to evolve classic Hangouts to focus on two experiences that help bring teams together: Hangouts Chat and Hangouts Meet. Both Chat and Meet are available today for G Suite customers and will be made available for consumer users, too. We have not announced an official timeline for transitioning users from classic Hangouts to Chat and Meet. We are fully committed to supporting classic Hangouts users until everyone is successfully migrated to Chat and Meet.

    Then, some more nuggets of information on Twitter:

    Migration should be automatic and should be invisible to you as an end user.

    Chat and Meet will be open to all, not just enterprise (second tweet on this)

    Hangouts will still support Google Voice to talk through PC

    More clarification on strategy

    And one more

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    What "quality of life" improvements are left in smart phones?

    Posted: 03 Dec 2018 09:53 AM PST

    Been sitting here reading about the loss of certain features and came to the realization that my V20 completely fullfills my needs in a smartphone 2 years after release. And I'm not seeing where else improvements can come from.

    I can easily go back to fulk charge without having a bank flopping about, it shoots 4k with image stabilization and can do HDR. So the photography is already better than what I need especially since I'm not an instathot.

    Google assistant works great and since my car has android auto and I have google home, its awesome being able to control everything the same way. The only thing I wish is that andriod auto could work via Bluetooth, but that looks like its a hardware limitation of the car side.

    I dont see wireless charging as an advantage anymore since USB-C is the new standard and I can plug it in the dark without any issues unlike USB-A and micro USB.

    For payments I already use my gear S3 so that doesn't matter.

    Honestly phones feel like they have plateau with minimal improvements hardware wise in utility and all future improvements to be mere status statements.

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    I made an app to make it much easier to share v.redd.it links

    Posted: 03 Dec 2018 09:40 AM PST

    It's called Linkshare: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nasahapps.linkshare

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    Too many times I've been browsing reddit and I see a gif/video that I want to share with someone, only for reddit to make things frustrating because it's a v.redd.it link. If you share the original link, it's really a link to the reddit post entirely, not the video itself. I personally use Relay for Reddit, and idk if there's a limitation with the app or Reddit's API but it can't download the video to share (and even if it could, it's possible the video would be quite large).

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    So amongst these frustrations, I created an app to handle all this for you.

    ​

    Using it is simple: as you're browsing reddit, if you share a v.redd.it link to Linkshare, the app will generate a url that links directly to the gif/video itself and not an entire reddit post. Also works with regular reddit.com urls for that video. For example, take this reddit post currently trending on /r/gifs: https://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/a2ofbp/magnet_paper_allows_you_to_see_where_magnets_are/ You can either generate a shareable url from this link itself or from the direct https://v.redd.it/ow0uywef92221 link the post is showing. Either url will work.

    ​

    Any links you generate are saved locally in your own history for you to view later (or delete if you want). Also, if you want to manually enter a link to share, you can do that straight from the app as well.

    ​

    Oh yeah, there's night mode support as well.

    ​

    Let me know what you guys think. Also, for any iPhone users on this sub, I'm also working on an iOS version as well.

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    DPReview 2018 Awards: Google Pixel 3 wins "Innovation of the Year" Award, Runner-up for "Best Smartphone Camera".

    Posted: 03 Dec 2018 11:53 AM PST

    I've just made a photo book with Google photos and it was painful.

    Posted: 03 Dec 2018 09:51 AM PST

    I think it's a great idea for Google to include the photo book ordering in its app. Makes it tough for smaller businesses again, but maybe Google won't expand much on printing options and these are left for other companies.

    Recently I got the update that allows me to order them (I'm in Sweden, so maybe we are not quite the first to have it), so I thought I give it a try.

    My conclusion: nice try, but horrible usability. Here are my problems with it:

    • no undo option. Once you delete a pic, it's gone from the book. Maybe it's just me but while making the book I accidentally deleted pictures several times and had each time to start over. Why? Because...

    • you can start from an album to make a book, but if you want to add a picture it shows you the whole library first. Why is this bad when you accidentally deleted a picture? Well, I got over a thousand photos of my daughter and make a book about her. I preselected 40 and then decided to delete some. I accidentally deleted one as above, but adding new photos doesn't take me back to the album I started with, I now have to browse the whole library again. Inconvenient! Can't even switch to an album view here.

    • no font options. You can only write in the font they supply. No repositioning of text. No bold or italics, no font selection. Not enough and should be easy to implement.

    • some weird bug with square pictures. So you can add your standard pics and cut them to a square, since the album itself is going to be square size. However there is a weird bug I experienced where if you add a photo that is already square size you run into some weird graphical bug on the overview page where it doesn't look like the photo is centered at all. Once you click on it you can correct it and it will be saved there but the overview always shows it wrong. So now I am not sure if the picture will be printed as in the overview (bad) or as intended.

    • lots of crashes. Guess not too unexpected from a new app, so I'm not going to elaborate much.

    Anybody with better experiences? Is it working well for some of you?

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    Google's Virtual Vermeer Museum Is a Legitimately Cool Use of AR

    Posted: 03 Dec 2018 09:02 PM PST
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