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    Android Help (Motorola Razr Leak) The "NEW" Folding Flip Phone [Dave Lee]

    April 30, 2019

    Android Help (Motorola Razr Leak) The "NEW" Folding Flip Phone [Dave Lee]

    (Motorola Razr Leak) The "NEW" Folding Flip Phone [Dave Lee]

    Posted: 30 Apr 2019 02:27 PM PDT

    Energizer’s 18,000mAh phone-battery monster is an Indiegogo flop

    Posted: 30 Apr 2019 01:15 AM PDT

    Smartphone Shipments Experience Deeper Decline in Q1 2019 with a Clear Shakeup Among the Market Leaders, According to IDC

    Posted: 30 Apr 2019 02:45 PM PDT

    What Google Messages Needs

    Posted: 30 Apr 2019 04:04 PM PDT

    Since Allo is no more, unfortunately I was pushed to another platform. Google's decision to discontinue Allo was supposedly because they moved the engineers from Allo over to Messages. This is all well and good, but Messages has virtually NONE of the features from Allo. The only thing they've apparently done is gently revamp the UI so it sports Material Design 2, instead of Material Design 1. Granted, MD2 is a welcome change, as is Dark Mode and the Messages on the Web feature.

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    Here are the top features that Messages should inherit from Allo in 2019:

    1. Chat

    I know they are working on RCS and Universal Profile, but these frameworks depend on the carriers, which is the wrong approach. Carriers are dog slow to adopt change, and they're proving as much with unreasonable delays in pushing out RCS/UP. Google can fix this entire thing by pushing the Chat feature as a Google-engineered framework. THEY DID THIS IN ALLO. Port that functionality into Messages. Google claims the Allo engineers are now the Messages engineers, so they can obviously accomplish this. Let RCS/UP be the fallback, if/when it ever arrives.

    2. Themes

    The themes within Allo were fantastic. There was a really good selection of differing themes to choose from, all well-designed and appealing. The backgrounds changed as well as the chat bubble colors. There was also a Monochrome theme for colorblind users.

    3. Incognito

    For private chats. Enough said.

    4. Message Intensity

    In Allo, you could slide up or down to increase or decrease the intensity of your message, respectively. Sliding up made the message large, to imply a louder or more urgent "volume," while sliding down made the message small, like a whisper.

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    I know this is just my opinion, but I can't fathom what the hell the Allo/Messages engineers are even doing, because they've not done a good job of porting the awesome features of Allo over to Messages. Messages is a barebones SMS client that looks pretty okay, and works on the web. That's it. Where are the useful features that you'd expect from a mobile messaging platform in 2019, specifically ones that existed and were summarily executed by Google?

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    Thanks for reading.

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    New Galaxy Note 9 update brings camera improvements and more

    Posted: 30 Apr 2019 08:53 AM PDT

    The LG G8 Review: Solid, But Not Great (Anandtech)

    Posted: 30 Apr 2019 10:06 AM PDT

    Tasker 5.7 – Better Voices, Physical Buttons, NFC, Navigation Bar, Keyboard and more!

    Posted: 30 Apr 2019 07:30 AM PDT

    ‘Burnt’ Galaxy S10 5G not a cause of device malfunction, says Samsung

    Posted: 30 Apr 2019 08:40 AM PDT

    Sony Sketch will shut down its online services on September 30th.

    Posted: 30 Apr 2019 06:41 PM PDT

    Xiaomi’s first 5G-ready smartphone – Mi MIX 3 5G – Sales begin in Switzerland on May 2nd

    Posted: 30 Apr 2019 07:58 AM PDT

    LG G8 ThinQ camera review [DxOMark 96]

    Posted: 30 Apr 2019 11:05 AM PDT

    Looks like Android Apps will be able to use the background space of the new iPhone-like navigation bar!

    Posted: 29 Apr 2019 08:18 PM PDT

    I just played with the new iPhone-like navigation bar, just before I reverted it back, I downloaded the Google I/O app, it surprised me that the app actually makes use of the blank space of the navigation bar:

    http://imgur.com/ajm43lg

    It looks really cool, and I hope it will eventually make to final release of Android Q!

    UPDATE: the navigation bar area is also transparent on original navigation bar. But it looks even more weird. http://imgur.com/zSquLTa

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    What ever happened to Android One?

    Posted: 30 Apr 2019 12:48 AM PDT

    Unless I'm mistaken, the only company to release phones this year with Android One is Nokia.

    Is there any particular reason for this? Am I right in thinking that companies that did previously offer Android Obe have decided to drop it? And if so why?

    I can't help but feel like this is real wasted opportunity for companies. I'd be infinitely more inclined to buy a new Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo if it had Android One or is it really just not in their interests to do so?

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