Android Sunday Rant/Rage (Dec 29 2019) - Your weekly complaint thread! |
- Sunday Rant/Rage (Dec 29 2019) - Your weekly complaint thread!
- Google Pixel 4a renders showcase punch-hole display and a familiar design
- Google Recorder app tests saving audio in the higher-quality WAV format
- High-End Smartphone Camera Comparison: DxOMark for smartphones is just not relevant for everyday life
- Prediction: Most phones in 2020 will have a hole-punch display. This is because Samsung kept the OLED hole-punch tech exclusive to themselves for a while, and that exclusivity has now most likely ended.
- Samsung UI 1.5 on Note 10+ allows screen recording over all copyrighted material! Enjoy!
- The smartphone tracking industry has been rumbled. When will we act?
- Huawei promises to launch P40 with Google service replacement, reports say
- My wonderful experience with the Redmi Note 8 Pro
- What mistake do you hope Google/OEM’s don’t repeat in the next decade?
- My first flagship phone coming from a budget phone (under $150)
- Smartphones in the next decade
- Why do people hate camera bumps?
| Sunday Rant/Rage (Dec 29 2019) - Your weekly complaint thread! Posted: 29 Dec 2019 03:11 AM PST Note 1. Join our IRC, and Telegram chat-rooms! Please see our wiki for instructions. This weekly Sunday thread is for you to let off some steam and speak out about whatever complaint you might have about:
Rules 1) Please do not target any individuals or try to name/shame any individual. If you hate Google/Samsung/HTC etc. for one thing that is fine, but do not be rude to an individual app developer. 2) If you have a suggestion to solve another user's issue, please leave a comment but be sure it's constructive! We do not want any flame-wars. 3) Be respectful of other's opinions. Even if you feel that somebody is "wrong" you don't have to go out of your way to prove them wrong. Disagree politely, and move on. [link] [comments] | ||
| Google Pixel 4a renders showcase punch-hole display and a familiar design Posted: 28 Dec 2019 07:05 AM PST
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| Google Recorder app tests saving audio in the higher-quality WAV format Posted: 28 Dec 2019 09:45 PM PST
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| Posted: 28 Dec 2019 10:45 AM PST Ice Universe, the well known Samsung leaker, stated a year ago that Samsung has the exclusive OLED laser hole punching technology for some time (source). This is the reason why the Galaxy flagships were the only phones using OLED with hole-punch. We did see a few Chinese phones using the hole punch, but they all used an LCD display, which uses a different cutting method for the hole punch. This year we saw OnePlus using pop-up cameras, others that have neither the pop-up or hole-punch tech keeping the notch and a few others like the Pixel embracing the forehead. All this is predicted to change as Samsung's OLED hole punch exclusivity wears off. The Pixel 4A's render shows it will be using a hole punch display, and the same goes for the OnePlus 8 rumors and leaks. Pixel 5 and the next iPhone will likely follow suit. EDIT: Looks like the Huawei P40 Pro will also have a hole-punch similar to the one on S10+. [link] [comments] | ||
| Samsung UI 1.5 on Note 10+ allows screen recording over all copyrighted material! Enjoy! Posted: 28 Dec 2019 03:46 PM PST
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| The smartphone tracking industry has been rumbled. When will we act? Posted: 29 Dec 2019 03:41 AM PST
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| Huawei promises to launch P40 with Google service replacement, reports say Posted: 28 Dec 2019 04:22 AM PST
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| My wonderful experience with the Redmi Note 8 Pro Posted: 28 Dec 2019 08:36 AM PST This is a follow up post to my last post a few users there asked me about how my experience has been with the Note 8 Pro and here you go (u/Owend12). Build Quality: When it comes to build quality, I pretty much praised the Redmi Note 8 for it's awesome build quality and this phone has the same materials but slightly better build quality. Both the front and the back of the phone are made of glass and it's gorilla glass 5, but unlike the note 8 the sides are slightly curved at the back. Which makes it feel slightly more seamless between the glass and the metal frame. Holding the phone feels incredibly premium, it's right on par with other much more expensive flagship phones because of the high quality materials they used. I think the back panel of this phone does look awesome, I have the black variant but I think this will look even more eye catching in white like the Redmi Note 8. In my opinion the front panel also looks really great. It's a 6.53 inches display and the bezels are much smaller than the Note 8. There's a tiny chin on the bottom and a curved notch on the top. Overall I think the phone looks really amazing, it's made of super high quality materials, and it feels really premium holding the phone. It has plenty of heft so you feel like you're holding something of very high quality. The difference between the Realme 5 Pro and the Note 8 Pro in build quality is night and day. Realme 5 pro feels like a cheap plastic toy, while the Note 8 Pro feels actually premium and high quality. It's not like you can't have plastic phones that don't feel good, phones like the Nexus 5 with it's soft touch back or the other Lumia models did feel amazing, but the plastic on the Realme 5 pro is more closer to the Galaxy S3 than to Nexus 5 or Lumias. Some photos I took of the phone: https://imgur.com/a/Szyelzp Performance: When I heard that this phone would have a mediatek processor I was a bit surprised because Redmi series usually uses Snapdragon processors however, this is not the same Mediatek as before, this year I extensively used the Vivo V15 which had a Mediatek P70 processor and it was apparent with that phone that Mediatek has definitely upped their game and this is true in this phone as well. I have absolutely zero complaints with the Mediatek G90T and the performance of this phone. It performs exactly like a flagship phone, it's amazing. The benchmarks put it up right next to the Snapdragon 845 and in usability it feels really really fast. I faced zero lag in the phone, it's just so smooth using it is such a fun and smooth experience. Going through the UI feels great and it handles every app perfectly even the graphically intensive apps. The phone comes in 6 or 8GB RAM variants and it has Android 9 and MIUI 11, I'm very picky and critical about Android Skins but MIUI 11 gives me all the features that I want in a phone. Features like Gesture Navigation is amazing on this phone and because the phone is so smooth you get such a fluid experience in gesture navigation. There's also system wide dark mode that I love and MIUI 11 is such well designed the icons and the entire UI is so well designed and it looks so clean. Although one problem I have with the launcher is that there's no app drawer in the launcher and usually in phones if you change the launcher you use gesture navigation but in this phone you can just download the poco launcher which is compatible with gesture navigation and you get an app drawer as well, so if you wanna continue using gesture navigation and want an app drawer then download poco launcher. Lastly, this phone also has liquid cooling so gaming is pretty much perfect on the phone again there's no lag and you play games like PUBG at the highest settings without any lag and that's really great considering the price of the phone. Overall the performance on this phone is really amazing, it's on par with flagship phones that are way more expensive and the phone gives a really smooth and fluid experience weather it's opening apps, going through the ui or heavy gaming. So in performance I'm really really happy with the phone. However, one downgrade that comes with the Mediatek processor is that it might not get as many ROMS and community developer support, so if you care about installing custom ROMs and stuff that might be a problem. Camera The camera is also really good for the price, the portrait mode is amazing and the edge detection works well for the most part. Obviously the camera is not as good as the bigger flagship phones like iPhone or Pixel but for the price it's quite amazing. I don't have many problems with the camera, I take out the phone, press the portrait button take a photo and I'm generally happy with the results. However if you are someone who does want a better camera in this price then maybe go for the Pixel 3a or wait for Pixel 4a. Display: In terms of display, there's 6.53 inches 1080p LCD panel and it goes upto 500 nits in brightness and it also supports HDR, I usually prefer AMOLED displays but the colors on this phone look really great. It is a great quality display and there aren't any latency issues like the Realme 5 pro. And it doesn't have the horrible yellow tint as the Realme 5 pro. I don't have many problems with the display, it's big, it's high quality, the resolution is great so there's plenty of clarity and it's great for watching movies and tv or looking at photos. For all intensive purposes it is a great display and I'm happy with it. Conclusion: Overall, I'm very very impressed with this phone, considering the price of this phone it's unreal how good the performance is how good the build quality is and how good the camera is. It literally ticks all the boxes for me. Thanks for reading, I hope this helps you in making a decision. Also don't wanna break any self promotion rules, but I do have a youtube channel where I post my reviews but it's in a different language it's in Hindi/urdu if you wanna support you can PM me. Alright, thank you and goodnight. [link] [comments] | ||
| What mistake do you hope Google/OEM’s don’t repeat in the next decade? Posted: 27 Dec 2019 10:03 PM PST I guess an example for me is that in the next decade, I hope Google doesn't make the same mistake of only focusing on software (specifically camera) than their hardware on their Pixel phones. I personally like their phones (I own one), but it's frustrating how it's so behind in some areas that software can't fix/help (like video recording, screen brightness, etc). I hope Google can learn from their errors/arrogance these past few years. But who knows if they do. What's yours? [link] [comments] | ||
| My first flagship phone coming from a budget phone (under $150) Posted: 27 Dec 2019 03:22 PM PST I'm very excited to make this post as I've been wanting to make it for a really long time. So I don't have very much money to spend on myself since I'm 16; and my parents don't like the idea of spending more than $200 on a phone. So my options were obviously limited. My previous phone was an LG Stylo 4. The phone got the job done but it was slow, unresponsive, and the phone had also suffered quite a few drops so the screen was less than stellar. So I had started to save up money at the start of 2019, and the phone I had my eyes set on was the LG G8 since LG's phones usually depreciate in value very quickly. Also I actually quite like LG's software since those are basically the only phones I have ever used. So I'm naturally accustomed to the software. So here comes December and my parents see that I had accumulated quite a bit of money ($325-350) and they offered up to pay the rest of the amount I needed. Now everything was starting to come together So low and behold here comes Christmas and I finally get the phone. Which just feels great. The build quality is amazing, the red back is beautiful, the screen is utterly fantastic to look at, and it just feels generally good to hold. The phone is very snappy, apps just open the second I tap on them. Which admittedly is how it's supposed to be, but I've never experienced such speed like this before! Battery life so far is great I've gotten over 6 hours of SOT on a single charge for the 2 days that I've had the phone. I'm overall just pleased with this phone. It's the first flagship that I've ever had and it's such a joy. I love my LG G8. [link] [comments] | ||
| Smartphones in the next decade Posted: 28 Dec 2019 02:52 PM PST Here is my prediction, whether r/android likes it or not - portless and buttonless phones are the future. I knew this the moment Apple removed the headphone jack and recent news just made it clearer. Jack is gone and we already saw a phone without buttons. Charging port is next. What is also an old technology that takes space? Sim cards. eSims are getting more widespread and in the coming years the sim tray will be gone. As for connecting your phone with a wire to your PC I think it will still be possible. Either by connector pins or some new near field protocol. Under display camera is a clear solution moving forward. Faster WiFi and adoption of it will bring two major things - wireless desktop experience and wireless console-like gaming through your phone. OS will have to undergo a major overhaul to make desktop experience universal, not just OEM exclusive and also make AAA game developers come to Android and treat it like a viable platform. Nintendo's success with the Switch has shown that console portable gaming is in high demand. If game streaming services are ever done right, phones are a perfect platform for it, all you will need to buy is a controller. What are your predictions for the next 10 years of smartphones? [link] [comments] | ||
| Why do people hate camera bumps? Posted: 28 Dec 2019 02:33 PM PST i know taste is person to person, but why do people hate camera bumps even smaller profile ones. i was looking at a video for the LG G8 dual screen and the back has no bump, the camera modules are flush with glass rear of device, al i can think of is if the device lays flat and it gets rested on its back like all phones do, its going to pick up scratches a lot easier this guy was saying he hoped more companies did this next year because its ugly, but again should we want a small bump to lift the glass the sensor sees through off surfaces that could scratch it? [link] [comments] |
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