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- Saturday APPreciation (Sep 28 2019) - Your weekly app recommendation/request thread!
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- A few days ago I have launched an app for news and articles recommendation to open beta in Google Play Store. I'd love to know what do you guys think!!!
- My thoughts after using HTC U12+ for two weeks - and why reviewers were wrong
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- There should be a setting to play audio through the earpiece rather than the speaker.
| Saturday APPreciation (Sep 28 2019) - Your weekly app recommendation/request thread! Posted: 28 Sep 2019 04:11 AM PDT Note 1. Check out our apps wiki for previous threads and apps curated by the reddit Android community! ***NEW: Download the official /r/Android App Store based on our wiki! Note 2. Join us at /r/MoronicMondayAndroid, a sub serving as a repository for our retired weekly threads. Just pick any thread and Ctrl-F your way to wisdom! Note 2. Join our Discord, IRC, and Telegram chat-rooms! Please see our wiki for instructions. This weekly Saturday thread is for: Rules: 1) If you are a developer, you may promote your own app ONLY under the bolded, distinguished moderator comment. Users: if you think someone is trying to bypass this rule by promoting their app in the general thread, click the report button so we can take a look! [link] [comments]  | ||
| 2014 called. It wants its curved screens back. - YouTube Posted: 28 Sep 2019 05:15 AM PDT
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| Download the Google Pixel 4 Live Wallpapers for any Android device Posted: 28 Sep 2019 12:57 AM PDT
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| Sony is developing its next flagship with Snapdragon 865 Posted: 28 Sep 2019 08:43 PM PDT
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| Posted: 28 Sep 2019 08:10 AM PDT Hi folks. I am an Android developer at Reddit that is responsible for a major part of video and RPAN live streaming :) While transitioning to a different office, I had a couple of month to do whatever the heck I want. So me and my friends came up with this idea of using this time for something awesome. I always loved reading articles on the internet and think that people underestimate the power of other people sharing their experiences in form of blogs posts. You can learn amazing things from such blogs, which I did, especially about my own profession of Android Developer. The problem is however, that all the apps/services that we have now heavily recommend only mainstream sources. CNN, Fox, The Verge, whatever else.. It is of course great, but we wanted to create something special, something users would love on a personal level, something where you could personalize it to the craziest levels, or not - just use it the way you would use Apple News, it is up to you. So a few days ago we released the result of our hard work to Google Play store and it is now in open beta. I am literally shaking from excitement as this is my first independent work and it is like sending your child to a school for the first time :). Anyway, enough of me rumbling about all this nonsense. Here is the link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.readian.readian_android I'll be patiently waiting to see what you guys think and for any pat on the back or harsh critique. If you have any question or feedback, let me know. I have also created a subreddit with more info and will share it if you guys are interested. Love, peace, thank you!!! EDIT: Most of our content is currently on English. For any other languages, you can add any websites that publish articles on your selected language and those will appear on your feed. We are actively working on adding more sources on most popular languages. EDIT 2: Just asked the mods if I could post my subreddit for the app here and got green light. Seems like you guys have an interest in it after all. For those of you who would like to follow the development and help us by providing bug reports and feedback, feel free to join our subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/readian_android_beta/ Thank you guys so much. This feedback means the world to us! [link] [comments]  | ||
| My thoughts after using HTC U12+ for two weeks - and why reviewers were wrong Posted: 28 Sep 2019 11:25 AM PDT Hey guys! After going through 6 different flaghip phones from 2017-2019 this year, I put my sim into HTC's last year's (and last, period) flagship phone. Many times using all of the previous 6 phones I noticed that a lot of what I heard in the reviews was wrong, but none made it as apparent as the U12+. This phone was bashed by reviewers for being gimmicky and dismissed for "not offering anything above the competition", but here's the kicker: I don't think any of the reviewers actually used the phone for more than two days. So here's my mini review/rant Background I started the year with an iPhone X, but didn't like iOS much, so I swapped to a Mate 20 Pro. I loved that thing. It was great. By far the best phone I have ever owned. Then the Huawei ban came. And I dropped it and broke the screen, and in July it was time to move on. My financial situation didn't exactly allow me to go for my top choice (Note 10+/S10+), so I settled for an S9+. It was so bad I thought it was broken so I returned it and got a Note 9 instead. Hated that one as well, so I went for: a Pixel 2 XL, then iPhone 8. Some things about all of those weren't quite right, so I landed on the HTC. I also own a Blackberry Key2 which I use for work, but most days it stays at home so I won't talk about it much in this post. Design By far the most meh part of the phone. Don't get me wrong, the transparent back is great and all, but the sides and front are a big ?? Like, why the hell does the screen glass pertrude above the side bezel when there is no curved screen? Why is there a tall display, but no curved corners? Why are the top and bottom bezels asymmetrical? It's not great. Sigh. Whatever. Performance It's very good. Stutters a bit sometimes when opening the app drawer (which I am spoiled, because stutters never happened on iPhones or Mate 20 Pro) and ram management isn't the best, but it's A LOT better than Samsung phones. Like I know Samsung always gives reviewers Snapdragon models, but has none of them ever bothered to use an Exynos Samsung device? The performance on my S9+ and Note 9+ was so bad I thought I went back to 1999, taking a ride through my old neighborhood. The HTC doesn't actually want to make me scoop my eyes out. It's fine. Similar to the Pixel and Xiaomi, not as good as iPhone or Huawei, but WAY better than Samsung. Display HOLY SHIT WHY IS NOBODY TALKING ABOUT THIS??? The display on the U12+ is seriously so fucking good. It's LCD, yes, but it's SO MUCH BETTER than the OLED Panels Google uses. It's about on par with the Note 9 and Mate 20 Pro, the only display I liked more was the iPhone X. It's just so sharp. So beautiful. So color accurate. There's some light bleed at the bottom though, which is a bummer. But the panel quality is SO GOOD. The reviewers kept going about "it's LCD so not as good as OLED" yeah my ass lmao. It's better than most OLED panels. Camera I hate it, but you would love it. No, seriously. If you ever looked at the pictures Google Pixel phones take and thought "wow that's a good photo", you would LOVE the U12+. The photos have pretty much the same aesthetic as the ones that came out of my Pixel 2 XL. The Pixel had a tiny bit more HDR and detail when zooming in, but unless viewed at 100% crop in original quality, the pictures are indistinguishable. The color science is EXACTLY the same. Now I personally hate the pictures Pixels take because the color science is WACK (and makes them impossiblle to quickly edit to my style) and I don't understand how reviewers are always putting those on the pedestal. I much prefer the more accurate look Apple/Huawei or even Samsung give you. So I don't like the U12+. But if you don't hate the Pixel with as much passion as I do, you would love the U12+. The pictures have less information than Huawei and iPhones give you, but MUCH more than whatever oil painting Samsung decides to put out. And video recording is actually decent with great audio. Unlike the Pixel. Battery My biggest surprise about the phone. It's good. REALLY good. Like, I can almost make it through a heavy day good. It's one of the 3 (out of 7) phones that achieve this for me. And the biggest reason why I think none of the reviewers actually used the phone. How it compares to the competition:
In my heavy use it went about blow for blow with the Pixel 2 XL and bested the iPhones (which is understandable, like the small iPhone has a battery half the size). What is not understandable is how much it dunked on the Samsung phones. The Note 9, with a battery almost 15% bigger got 36% LESS battery life than the HTC. Pretty wack for a phone for the "proffessional user". The S9+ with a battery the same size didn't get HALF of the SOT the HTC gives me which is a goddamn joke. (also the Blackberry gets 6.5h with 3500mAh, but I mean, that display is smol so) Yet the reviewers claim that it's "good but if you want great battery life, you should go for a Pixel XL or Galaxy Note" ?? Sound There's no headphone jack which (please don't crucify me) I couldn't care less about as before I got the HTC I only used wireless audio (AirPods for convenience and B&O H9i for ANC and sound quality) before I got the HTC. The speakers are great though. Better than Huawei, iPhones and Pixel, only second to the Note 9 imo* *but only if you leave them on the "theather" preset, the "music" preset paradoxically makes the music sound wack I mentioned that before I got the U12+ I only used wireless audio. Well, the HTC changed that because the included USonic headphones are REALLY good. Like, reaaally good. I'm not an audiophile (I notice the difference between my H9is and something like the Bose 700s/Sony XM3s, but not between the H9is and more expensive headsets) but I'll be damed if the usonic USB C phones don't dunk all over my airpods. They are great. AND they have ANC so I don't have to look like an idiot wearing my $500 H9is when mowing the law. These included headphones made it so that I only use my AirPods at the gym, because anywhere else the sound quality of the Usonics just trumps their convenience. How many reviewers mentioned that? Not. A. Single. One. I bet most of them didn't even pull them out of the box. Elephant in the room Yes. The buttons aren't great. Yes. The squeeze is a gimmick. No. It doesn't bother you after 2 days when you get used to it. Conclusion The HTC U12+ was a great phone when it came out, much better for the general consumer than its direct competition, the S9+, which had a similarly good screen, worse camera and MUCH worse battery life. There is NOTHING about the S9+ that would make me pick it over the U12+. I'm kinda mad because this happens with every phone that isn't a Pixel, iPhone, Samsung or OnePlus. People just ignore them, while brands like HTC, Sony, LG, Xiaomi, Oppo and Huawei (rip in peace sweet prince) will each offer a better experience to a specific kind of user. If only we had people whose job it was to relay this kind of information to the consumers... Who is it for? Even a year later, it's a great phone for most people. It has a good camera, great display, decent performance and very good battery life, wrapped in a meh design. If you are in the market for a phone that offers these things, don't want to spend money on 2019 flagships, I would totally recommend it over something like a Galaxy S9+, Pixel 3 or iPhone 8 Plus, all of which are going for the same price. [link] [comments]  | ||
| Samsung Galaxy A70s launched in India: Key specs, price in India, sale date and more details Posted: 28 Sep 2019 04:08 AM PDT
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| OnePlus 7T Vs. Asus Zenfone 6 Vs. ZTE Axon 10 Pro | Spec Comparison Posted: 28 Sep 2019 08:54 PM PDT
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| There should be a setting to play audio through the earpiece rather than the speaker. Posted: 28 Sep 2019 08:52 AM PDT Sorry if this suggestion has been posted before - I can't be the only one. I take a train pretty much every day, and I usually have my headphones with me. Sometimes I forget them, but I'd still like to listen to my podcast or Spotify or whatever. I'm not an animal, I'm not going to blast my music for everyone on the train to hear, people who do that are the worst. So my options are to not listen to anything, which is fine I guess, or to hold the speaker at the bottom of the phone to my ear with the volume very low. So here I am, holding my phone upside down and at a bit on an angle against my ear. It's a bit uncomfortable because of my phone case, and I look like a total dingus. The I get a call, I flip my phone around, and I have a pleasant and comfortable listening experience that I'm sure both looks normal and isn't disturbing anyone around me. My suggestion - why not have a setting that forces all audio through the ear piece, rather than just calls. For us forgetful folks who left their headphones at home but still want to listen to something without bothering everyone around them this would be a godsend. [link] [comments]  |
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