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    Android Help What should I buy Thursday (Dec 12 2019) - Your weekly device inquiry thread!

    December 12, 2019

    Android Help What should I buy Thursday (Dec 12 2019) - Your weekly device inquiry thread!

    What should I buy Thursday (Dec 12 2019) - Your weekly device inquiry thread!

    Posted: 12 Dec 2019 03:11 AM PST

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    Evidence is mounting that people are fed up with the sky-high cost of smartphones, and it's sparking a massive change in the industry

    Posted: 12 Dec 2019 12:54 PM PST

    Fewer than 10% of Americans are buying $1,000 smartphones, report says

    Posted: 12 Dec 2019 01:31 AM PST

    Samsung has sold 1 million Galaxy Fold smarthphones

    Posted: 12 Dec 2019 10:53 AM PST

    Windows 10 Your Phone app: Now all Android users can make calls from their PC

    Posted: 12 Dec 2019 04:41 PM PST

    Safer conversations in Messages with Verified SMS and Spam Protection

    Posted: 12 Dec 2019 09:25 AM PST

    The Firefox Preview 3.0 update is gradually getting rolled out in Google Play now

    Posted: 12 Dec 2019 12:17 PM PST

    Interpreter mode brings real-time translation to your phone

    Posted: 12 Dec 2019 07:03 AM PST

    Google wants to fix Android 10's terrible workflow for opening links by default in your chosen apps

    Posted: 12 Dec 2019 12:47 AM PST

    RCS adoption seems great! (Pixel 2 XL)

    Posted: 12 Dec 2019 02:49 PM PST

    The road to RCS has been a very bumpy one, but with the recent pushes that Google has made to roll out their own flavor of RCS to users irrespective of carrier, RCS is working great for me.

    Quite a few of the people I still use texting with (my parents, some school friends) use Pixels, and they have absolutely no idea what RCS is. Nevertheless, with the recent rollouts, I'm now happily using RCS with them. This represents the majority of people I text (aka not using Messenger, Telegram, or Signal) and for me, it has worked great.

    I'd like to hear how the RCS rollout has affected you!

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    Unofficial LineageOS 17 brings Android 10 to the Moto G 2013 and Moto G 2014

    Posted: 12 Dec 2019 07:27 AM PST

    AMD Hypervisor,added support for running the emulator on AMD CPUs on Windows: With CPU acceleration Without requiring Hyper-V With speed on par with HAXM Without requiring Windows 10!!!

    Posted: 12 Dec 2019 06:37 AM PST

    Samsung Note 10+ Star Wars Edition

    Posted: 12 Dec 2019 04:50 PM PST

    WhatsApp will soon pull support for older smartphones

    Posted: 12 Dec 2019 05:01 AM PST

    Galaxy M20 & Galaxy M30 Gets Android 10 Update

    Posted: 12 Dec 2019 07:21 AM PST

    Official Google Australia Blog: Your Pixel phone just got helpful with the new Google Assistant and feature drops

    Posted: 12 Dec 2019 08:46 AM PST

    Samsung Galaxy A Official Launch video

    Posted: 12 Dec 2019 02:31 AM PST

    Canadian Galaxy S10 users to start getting Android 10 on December 16

    Posted: 12 Dec 2019 07:33 AM PST

    Nexus 6P vs Pixel 4 Photo Quality - Legacy Testing

    Posted: 12 Dec 2019 04:25 PM PST

    Android Skins like FunTouch OS shouldn't exist in the next decade.

    Posted: 12 Dec 2019 06:58 PM PST

    Android as a platform is awesome, the flexibility, the number of choices, the experiments among the brands are all amazing yet it is still a weird mess that is being created by different OEMs. Hear me out:

    Why did we choose Android in the first place? The shear number of choice of devices is massive. Its like there is an Android phone specifically designed for us.

    Why did we fall in love with Android? Most folks who are students or very young and are introduced to Android love it because we tend to fiddle and experiment more and learning new things is a part of our behavior. Ability to customize a phone any way we would want meant that it reflected my personality my thinking and hence our mad love for android

    As we grow used to that operating system we find a niche about things that we are used to because we have specifically designed the home screen, the app drawer the color of icons, the Tasker shortcuts to our liking and we know what works for us and what doesn't ( we disable or uninstall those applications) and it gets harder to stay away from those comforts of Android customisation.

    However, because every company sees Android in different light and most manufacturer sees their version of Android as just an iOS competitor and a platform that can push out advertisments and do brand deals. However, Android is so much more, it's a free canvas see you can make anything that you want and then companies create Android skins like FunTouch OS. The name is a joke and as so is the UI. The icons look comical because of their poor iOS inspiration, they try to emulate the gaussian blur effect on phone with entry level chipset and ends up with performance issues after a few months when the phone has some background activity.

    Then there is Color OS, MiUi etc they used to have similar issues but now they are trying to be their own skin which is awesome and they have their own user base but their settings page is just bonkers. In MiUi, the screen time out is under lockscreen? In color OS, Nova launcher crashes. What is the point of a software if it can't support popular applications. Also, color OS uses its own font and spacing and lining in the UI and it doesn't look cohesive along with the apps installed in the phone.

    Companies like Samsung, one plus, Asus make skins too but except for Samsung the others are smart enough to keep all the essentials of stock Android And add their custom flare to keep them standing out which results in a more cohesive design along with other applications of the platform and more stability. Samsung has huge R and D hence their skin is unique and functional and now companies like Oppo are copying one UI's aesthetics.

    There is a massive following for stock Android and every OEM knows that, but they also know how important it is for them to differentiate. So, why can't a skin look like it's designed by a team of professional UI designers and not something that a backend team up.

    What is your take on this? I used a moto x play from 2016-18, so spoiled by stock Android, Honor 7x from 2018-19, apart from the functioning dark mode I didn't have any complains, the number of preinstalled apps were Huawei's own apps and easily uninstallable plus they were not add pushing platforms; the icon pack was garbage but you could switch it easily. Also, I never had any app that constantly kept crashing. My recent phone is Realme X2 pro and the UI is holding the entire potential of the phone, from unrefined ideal battery drain, to app crashes, to constant unnecessary notifications and slow or rather heavy app animations (by default, I have reduced them to 0.5x in developer settings to keep the phone snappy).

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    Missing screenshot feature from google assistant

    Posted: 12 Dec 2019 07:51 PM PST

    I heavily used the screenshot feature through google assistant because it allowed me to take a screenshot and send the image right away without needing to save the image on my phone.

    Unless I'm missing a way to get the "Share Screenshot" button back to the google assistant drawer that pops up when you activate the assistant, all google has done is remove a really efficient service and force you to go through multiple steps to take a screenshot and send it to someone. I guess I shouldn't be surprised that google is messing with their own product and making it worse for users...

    Anyone know if it's possible to get that "share screenshot" button back to the drawer?

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    Tasker v5.9 exits beta with Logcat events, improved location and camera tools

    Posted: 12 Dec 2019 01:52 AM PST

    Why are more and more manufacturers moving more towards using default Google apps?

    Posted: 12 Dec 2019 05:47 AM PST

    Earlier, there was pretty much always a guarantee of 2 calendars, 2 clocks, etc on every phone. But now I've noticed lots of phones just come with Google messages, Google calendar, Google phone etc installed and no manufacturer alternative. Of course I kind of like this because tbh their alternatives never really match up to Google's, but it seems weird.

    You'd think they'd want to keep pushing their apps to increase their data collection and retain their brand identity. Motorola had their own messaging app but shifted to Google's a while ago and with pie they even started using Google phone instead of their phone app. Noticed this with several manufacturers like LG. Even xiaomi is doing it with their phones sold in Europe.

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    Samsung Galaxy A51 and Galaxy A71 announced: Infinity-O displays and L-shaped quad cameras

    Posted: 12 Dec 2019 04:45 AM PST
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