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    February 05, 2020

    Android Help Netflix Now Streaming AV1-encoded content on Android

    Netflix Now Streaming AV1-encoded content on Android

    Posted: 05 Feb 2020 11:19 AM PST

    Galaxy Buds+ are going to have a gaming mode

    Posted: 05 Feb 2020 09:01 AM PST

    Opinion: Samsung is fast becoming the Android update king

    Posted: 05 Feb 2020 01:52 PM PST

    Here Is a Link to the Shadow Inc. App that Blew Up the Iowa Caucus - VICE

    Posted: 05 Feb 2020 03:06 PM PST

    Artist lugs around wagon full of phones to create virtual traffic jams in Google Maps (Update: Google statement)

    Posted: 05 Feb 2020 05:54 PM PST

    Chrome 80 for Android rolling out: New notifications prompt, audio/video over HTTPS

    Posted: 04 Feb 2020 11:23 PM PST

    What do you miss and do not miss from the early days of Android?

    Posted: 04 Feb 2020 11:37 PM PST

    For me, I trawled the XDA forums for my then-devices - a Galaxy Gio. It came with Android 2.3.6 out of the box.

    What I miss:

    • the sheer amount of customization. Browsing the forums for any half-popular device would yield dozens and dozens of ROMs and themes created by the commuity. My Gio ran a modified version of Android 4.4, Kitkat, before it died. Sure, battery life was awful by then and it was slow as hell, but it sure had some cool tricks.
    • The size of phones - back then they were 4.2" max.
    • The ridiculous variation in phone and software designs. If one were to go to GSMArena, they'd see such things as the Motorola Backflip, the HTC Hero, and the Samsung Behold 2. HTC Sense and Touchwiz really were different.

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    What I don't miss:

    • The bottom-tier "low-end" phones, with bloated software running on top. My Gio had around 278MB of RAM and 512MB storage, of which only 151MB was usable. SD Cards were a BIG deal back then, with applications like Link2SD that would as move as much data as possible to a phone's SD Card.
    • The lack of functionality and under-the-hood performance improvements now taken for granted.
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    uBlock Origin support has landed on Firefox Preview Nightly

    Posted: 04 Feb 2020 05:46 PM PST

    As many of you know, Firefox Preview initially launched without add-on support. This feature has been in the works for a while and enough progress has now been made for uBlock Origin to be the first add-on to be supported. (Why uBlock Origin? High demand.) Support for more add-ons is incoming.

    To add uBlock Origin, navigate to Settings -> Advanced section -> Add-ons, and tap on the + sign next to uBlock Origin's entry. You can configure filters just like on the desktop version.

    Work is still in progress and some actions will make Firefox Preview Nightly crash (e.g. tapping on a filter's hyperlink). You can have the app automatically generate and send a report to Mozilla if you so wish.

    You can get the newest Firefox Preview Nightly on the Play Store and out of it.

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    Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra (Live picture)

    Posted: 04 Feb 2020 06:38 PM PST

    Jon Prosser on twitter "Okay, one more. In all it's potato quality glory. That S20 Ultra tho... "

    Posted: 04 Feb 2020 09:46 PM PST

    Leaked comparison of Galaxy Buds with the new Galaxy Buds+

    Posted: 04 Feb 2020 04:47 PM PST

    Samsung S10 Left on Beach - Survives 2 High Tides!

    Posted: 04 Feb 2020 07:15 AM PST

    My wife and I were taking a walk with our children at a nature preserve in Maine, and we got down to a rocky beach on a tidal river (at low tide...) and she took some pictures of the dogs and kids with her S10. We spent some time there but as we started to head back our 3-year old daughter asked to get carried (a rarity at her age but it's a long hike so we came prepared) so my wife got her strapped into her carrier. I had our sleeping 6-month-old in a carrier on my chest or else I would have carried her. After the kiddos are all set we head back up the trail to the parking lot - a hike we do dozens of times a year.

    When we get near our car, my wife realized she didn't have her phone. I dropped her and the kids off and raced back down the trail, but when I got to the beach, our photo spot was covered in about 18 inches of saltwater. I didn't have waterproof boots but still did my best on a relatively mild January day in Maine (temp was around ~32 F). I looked everywhere, but couldn't find the phone under the water. What made it more difficult is she had a wood-grain colored case that matched the brown sand/mud pretty well.

    This was a dead spot for Verizon, so while I could get the phone to ring (the ringer was off), I couldn't get Android Device Locator to work, it couldn't connect to the phone. Being underwater surely didn't help either. Knowing the two kids were probably starting to drive my wife crazy up at the car, I headed back empty-handed.

    That night (~11 PM) at low tide, I tried the device locator again - but no luck, it couldn't connect. The phone would ring - so I knew it was still on, but I couldn't get a location on it. I was about to head to the trail to do the ~5-mile round trip hike at midnight in the hopes that the screen lighting up while I called would help me find it - but just as I got my boots on and was headed to the car, the phone started going straight to voicemail. I feared all was lost and abandoned my rescue mission.

    The next morning, at the next low tide, my wife set out with our infant while I stayed with our 3-year-old at home to find it herself. It wasn't ringing anymore so it would have to be located by eye. Miraculously - she found it, covered in mud, the wood-grained side facing up, but in one piece. We knew this was the ultimate test of the S10's waterproof seal.

    She left it powered off, we brought it home, took it out of its case, rinsed it with fresh water to remove all the salt off of it, and then tried to shake out all the water out of the USB-port as we could. Placed it in a bowl of rice, and waited for 24 hours...

    The next day, we powered it up. It behaved like nothing had happened at all. It still had a 50% charge too. I don't know why it shut off, maybe as a safety precaution if it could detect being submerged? Either way, it's still working/charging perfectly 3 days later. As someone with no phone insurance - I am pretty happy today - well built phone Samsung!

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