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- What should I buy Thursday (May 02 2019) - Your weekly device inquiry thread!
- YouTube Music's offline playback policies aren't just a nuisance, they're a disgrace
- Whoops, looks like Best Buy already put out some Pixel 3a XLs
- My first look at Google's all-new Android Automotive on the Polestar 2 was very promising
- De-bullshified version of Facebook has been updated
- OnePlus 7 Pro Marketing Shots Leak
- I didn't know this about the Chrome app.
- Google opinion rewards updated to material design and adaptive icon support
- Switzerland's Sunrise Starts Selling Huawei Mate 20X 5G & Xiaomi MIX3 5G Phones
- A month after shutting down, I'm still rocking Google Inbox. Sync & Notifications working Perfectly.
- Xiaomi Black Shark 2 Teardown - JerryRigEverything
- New Playmoji: POKÉMON Detective Pikachu
- How expensive phones are strangling Android version distribution
- Review of S5E (and emulator use)
- Joey adds advertisements with pay option to remove ads.
- Greener grass
- Fuchsia's Ermine user shell in Android Emulator
| What should I buy Thursday (May 02 2019) - Your weekly device inquiry thread! Posted: 02 May 2019 04:13 AM PDT Credits to the team at /r/PickAnAndroidForMe for compiling this information:
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| YouTube Music's offline playback policies aren't just a nuisance, they're a disgrace Posted: 02 May 2019 10:42 AM PDT
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| Whoops, looks like Best Buy already put out some Pixel 3a XLs Posted: 02 May 2019 06:23 PM PDT
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| My first look at Google's all-new Android Automotive on the Polestar 2 was very promising Posted: 02 May 2019 04:44 AM PDT
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| De-bullshified version of Facebook has been updated Posted: 02 May 2019 08:07 AM PDT
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| OnePlus 7 Pro Marketing Shots Leak Posted: 02 May 2019 10:51 AM PDT
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| I didn't know this about the Chrome app. Posted: 02 May 2019 02:53 PM PDT Apparently, if you press and hold the back button it pops up with a brief list of your history to select from. This is handy for those websites that try to keep you on their page no matter how many times you back up. I don't know if this is common knowledge, but if even one person can use this post, it will not be in vain. [link] [comments]  | ||
| Google opinion rewards updated to material design and adaptive icon support Posted: 02 May 2019 06:39 AM PDT | ||
| Switzerland's Sunrise Starts Selling Huawei Mate 20X 5G & Xiaomi MIX3 5G Phones Posted: 02 May 2019 04:15 AM PDT
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| A month after shutting down, I'm still rocking Google Inbox. Sync & Notifications working Perfectly. Posted: 02 May 2019 09:06 AM PDT I've been using version 1.77.211 for a while now, but I flashed a new ROM a week back (which of course led to losing data). Luckily, I had a backup from TiBu and can confirm that if you managed to create a Titanium Backup of app+data, you will be able to continue using Inbox if you just restore the backup bypassing the sign in prompt and error. [link] [comments]  | ||
| Xiaomi Black Shark 2 Teardown - JerryRigEverything Posted: 02 May 2019 03:10 PM PDT
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| New Playmoji: POKÉMON Detective Pikachu Posted: 02 May 2019 09:09 AM PDT | ||
| How expensive phones are strangling Android version distribution Posted: 02 May 2019 12:42 PM PDT TL, DR: The dramatic increase in phone prices over the past few years has forced users to lengthen their hardware upgrade cycles. At the same time, the rate of Android updates hasn't matched this increase. As a result, the share of Android phones running less than the latest Android release is increasing. __________________ Google's original vision for hardware was for it to be inexpensive and easily replaced. However, Apple shifted the market perception preference (read: even if people can't afford top end devices, they judge the ecosystem based on top end devices) toward ultrapremium phones, forcing Android OEMs to follow suit. Unfortunately, underlying ROM development and update methods didn't change nearly as much. Treble only meant that device OEMs no longer had to wait for SoC OEMs to provide them with kernel updates to push new ROM versions; it didn't change the work necessary to develop said ROMs. Most Android OEMs still aren't optimized for or organized around the software development methods necessary to push even regular security updates, much less feature/version ones. And so now we have no Android OEM with global retail channel omnipresence (meaning you can get them from multiple retail channels nearly anywhere in the world) that pushes rapid monthly security updates and feature updates. At the same time, because phones have gotten expensive, consumers can't afford to replace their hardware often. Even worse, due to locked bootloaders, the expertise required, and spotty custom ROM support, they often can't update their phones to the latest version of Android even if they wanted to. Google therefore finds itself in a serious jam: it needs the latest Android versions to penetrate the Android marketshare so that it can 1) provide improved device security and 2) incentivize devs to adopt new Android features and polices, but there's nothing they can do to push said updates. Even forcing devs to target Android API versions in the Play Store might not have much effect because, again: OEMs would rather release new devices with feature updates than push these updates to existing devices, and users neither care deeply about updates nor can they afford to upgrade devices. Also, it's tough for Google to make an argument for 2) above if their own numbers show no one is using the Android version they're telling devs to build for. As an example, consider the developer backlash against Scoped Storage* that forced Google to delay enforcement for it. Ironically, if competitive Android flagships were less expensive, it would make the above problem easier to solve (while admittedly harming Android's brand perception) because people would be more likely to upgrade their devices. As for the distribution numbers themselves, I've seen Statcounter numbers bandied about a bit. Small reminder that Statcounter counts pageviews, which inflates numbers for new releases as new users typically visit a lot pages getting their devices set up. In other words, Statcounter tracks activity, not install base. NetMarketShare, OTOH, counts sessions, which tracks closer to number of users. NetMarketShare puts Android 9.0's share of the overall mobile OS market at 1.18%. Since it also puts Android (all versions) at 70%, this means that 8 months after launch, only 1.18/70 = 1.7% of Android devices run Pie. A little Excel polynomial fit Kung Fu of the last 6 Pie distribution data points show Pie will take nearly 1.5 years to reach just half of Android devices at its current rate. Obviously, that's not something Google wants people talking a lot about. *I think the Scoped Storage fiasco is more of an indictment of Google for communicating poorly and not explaining the benefits and functionality of the feature sufficiently than an indictment of the feature itself, but that's another discussion. [link] [comments]  | ||
| Review of S5E (and emulator use) Posted: 02 May 2019 01:50 PM PDT I bought the black 128GB, 6GB RAM version. For perspective, I also have devices Androids with the 835, 845, 950 Kirin and the 960 Kirin. I saw no performance difference with the 960 over the 950 Kirin, so kept the older Media Pad. I mainly bought it to see how it performs with higher end emulators. Quick gloss over: Build = Great Weight is light Speakers sound unusually good for a tablet, and better than my iPad Pro 256GB Display = Great Battery life = Great- easily over ten hours with mixed use. No 3.5 jack sucks, but using my Airpods and mainly the speakers since sound very good WIFI: Not experiencing the signal drop issues. WIFI seems strong. I have had a few ASUS tablets in the past and they DID have AWFUL- WIFI Performance is smooth Device does not seem to get too warm under stress Plays every game smoothly thrown at it. I do not like playing PUBG on a tablet, so not tested. This thing is SLIPPERY. Have not found a case for it, so might have to go back to Best Buy and get the $60 case that is Apple level overpriced. In spite of the benchmarks being the same as the 950 Kirin and a little less than the 960, this device plays emulators MUCH better. No comparison on the heavier resource ones like MAME 139, PPSSPP, Reicast, uoYabause, N64 and Dolphin. Games that chugged on the Media Pads are smooth on this device. In other words, more games play a lot better. As example, Dolphin chugs on the Kirin chips, but plays better (same as 835). On MAME, Dead or Alive Plus is arcade smooth, which is a good test for the CPU, sans synthetic benchmarks. For emulators, I notice no difference with the 835 in my S8. Seems exact same performance. I do notice a big difference with the 845 in my Note 9. Still, not sure I'm keeping it….. The S5 will have either the 845 or 855 in it. That would be huge for emulators. If you are not into emulators though, this tablet seems the best overall tablet. I prefer the S5e over my access constrained Apple and iTunes gated iPad. I have a TON of comics and magazine subscriptions on the iPad though….. Meh. [link] [comments]  | ||
| Joey adds advertisements with pay option to remove ads. Posted: 01 May 2019 10:40 PM PDT | ||
| Posted: 01 May 2019 11:51 PM PDT I'm using an XR now and it's a joyless iMessage machine. I've come to hate faceid, the notch is still annoying (why would anyone copy that?!), it's heavy and slippery and after using a friend's Note 9 on the same network, his was so much faster I thought my phone was broken. I've also had 2 Notes, an s7, and HTC One. But security issues, update issues, lag issues, nonexistent customer support and the goog's history of killing things seemingly because they found out I relied on them (not an android beef, I know) all made me switch back at different times. So I'm torn. I found my old s7 edge and charged it for fun and aside from the lag, it reminded me of what I miss about android. I'm thinking about the next Pixel but worry about the hardware after seeing the 3. So if you love what you're using, what is it and what killer androids are you looking forward to this year? [link] [comments]  | ||
| Fuchsia's Ermine user shell in Android Emulator Posted: 02 May 2019 03:31 AM PDT
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