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    March 06, 2020

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    Google Messages to send iMessage-like reaction texts - 9to5Google

    Posted: 05 Mar 2020 08:56 PM PST

    Unfolding the first trifold phone.

    Posted: 05 Mar 2020 06:07 AM PST

    Exclusive: Motorola Edge+ renders reveal waterfall display and tiny punch-hole camera - Pricebaba.com Daily

    Posted: 05 Mar 2020 11:52 AM PST

    The Exynos990 version of the Galaxy S20 / S20+ uses an ISOCELL S5K2LD sensor instead of the IMX555 adopted by the Snapdragon865 version.

    Posted: 05 Mar 2020 12:06 PM PST

    Oppo Find X2 Pro: 120Hz 1440p screen, periscope camera, orange leather

    Posted: 06 Mar 2020 02:12 AM PST

    I got better battery life through vigorous changes but at what cost?

    Posted: 05 Mar 2020 02:45 PM PST

    S10 Plus Exynos. The cost is convenience and sanity.

    I did everything from disabling chrome, only using duckduckgo, no web and location activity, deleted all my web and location history, deleted everything from drive and photos and stopped syncing for nearly everything, installed NetGuard and set it to manage all system apps and turn it on all the time when phones off...

    The result is now all my files and music and photos are on my sd card. If I lost it or the phone was stolen... I'd lose everything. Duckduckgo is a pain in the ass for bookmarks and settings... have to set a reference phrase and remember what it is and use that on every duckduckgo browser.

    I did all that and got better battery by about 20% but increased my anxiety of losing everything, reduced my convenience and user experience due to no chrome and no google drive or google photos, and sometimes forgetting that NetGuard is on and I'm wondering why my apps aren't doing anything and why my phone isn't getting security updates... cos NetGuard blocks EVERYTHING if you set it to do so.

    I also got manipulated by articles and shit on the news about peoples privacy and how google and apple know way too much about you in order to target ads to you.

    Now I'm thinking.... I dont give a fuck. So what if google would know everything about me. I'm just 1 average joe out of 7 something billion people in the world. Why does it matter? I'm not a criminal or a celeb, I'm not some money launderer, or two faced piece of shit high profile lawyer... I'm just human number whatever. Them knowing too much isn't going to negatively affect my life.

    Plus you can turn off personalised targeted ads on your Google account settings despite them knowing all about you.

    So yeah... I give up. I'm just going to turn it all back on and delete NetGuard. I'm tired of jumping thru so many hoops and pain in the ass settings and shit to force better battery life. I'm just gonna bend over and take it from now on. It's easier.

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    Night mode on the Galaxy S20 creates a grid. If you take a close look at this photo, which was taken in pretty much complete darkness, you can see a 4x3 grid ghosted in.

    Posted: 05 Mar 2020 10:25 AM PST

    [MKBHD] Oppo Find X2 Pro: One-Upping the Champ?

    Posted: 06 Mar 2020 02:16 AM PST

    TCL unveils world's first rollable screen phone concept

    Posted: 05 Mar 2020 07:49 AM PST

    Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra Teardown - iFixit

    Posted: 05 Mar 2020 02:38 PM PST

    Anyone waiting for the successor to the Cortex-A55?

    Posted: 05 Mar 2020 02:59 PM PST

    Improvements to the "Gold"/performance cores are great, but I'm hoping ARM introduces a new efficiency microarchitecture this year, so SoCs next year can use them.

    A53 was announced in 2013. First SoCs implementing it came out in 2014.

    A55 is being announced in 2017. First SoCs implementing it came out in 2018.

    Hopefully the refresh comes sooner than 4 years.

    "The Cortex-A55 cores remain practically the same, which to be honest are getting a bit long in the tooth as they've essentially not changed in 3 generations now. We're very much overdue a large microarchitectural update from Arm as the yearly small efficiency core updates from Apple now put the Android SoCs to shame in regards to performance and efficiency."

    Source: https://www.anandtech.com/show/15178/qualcomm-announces-snapdragon-865-and-765-5g-for-all-in-2020-all-the-details/2

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    TCL doesn't have a folding phone to sell you, but it does have more ideas for one

    Posted: 05 Mar 2020 07:38 AM PST

    OnePlus launches doorstep service initiative for customers in India

    Posted: 05 Mar 2020 10:23 AM PST

    My S20 Ultra review, coming from a Pixel and iPhone user

    Posted: 05 Mar 2020 08:46 AM PST

    This phone should have a Chinese brand name on the back and cost $750. The S20 Ultra is not a "premium" phone. From hardware to software, it shouldn't cost $1400. It probably shouldn't even cost $1000. It's buggy, and completely lacking in the polish you would expect from a premium phone at a high price.

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    The Bad:

    The back glass feels exactly like plastic. It flexes when I push on it, and the entire phone sounds (and feels) hollow when you tap on it. It rattles when shaken. Everyone else has moved on to matte or frosted glass, but this thing is just gross looking after you touch it once. The glossy glass also means you'll inevitably see scratches that wouldn't show up on frosted glass. Despite seeing many early reviewers claiming the display is now flat, it's not. It's curved, and results in noticeable light bleed/distortion along the edges when viewed from any angle. This also has resulted in a lot of accidental touches from my palm.

    You can see the inside of the phone through the camera bump, because the camera hole cutout is significantly larger than the camera module itself. Haptics are nowhere near the quality of the iPhone or Pixel. You can tell they tried, because some of the system haptics give you little "clicks" or "thunks", but it's so weak that you can barely feel it. It also contributes to the hollow feeling of the phone. Other times, the vibrations revert to the old loud and buzzy style that you hear more than you feel.

    It's buggy as all get-out. Half of my pictures are completely out of focus, and not just on the main sensor, but the telephoto lens as well. Samsung is supposed to fix this issue, but it's a $1400 phone. This should have been done before release, and what if it doesn't get fixed? I have had issues where the phone suddenly slowing down for no reason, chugging along at maybe 30fps, requiring a reboot. I've also had apps randomly crash, something I haven't experienced on my 4 XL.

    Sometimes the camera app opens on the telephoto lens, but thinks it's using the main camera. This requires "zooming" (which doesn't do anything because it's already zoomed), then switching back to the main camera. Similarly, there's no way to get back to 5X zoom (the default) if you choose a different zoom level. You have to back out to either the main camera or ultrawide, then choose the telephoto again. The zoom list only allows for 4X or 10X, not 5X.

    One UI is very jarring. It's distinctly different than the look of stock Android, and it sticks out like a sore thumb. All of the apps I use or see are styled very similarly, they all have that "Android" style. But One UI is very different looking, using it's own style. It feels like using a Windows computer, but if all your programs were styled after Mac programs. They just don't fit. I also find One UI to be very amateur and cartoonish. The status bar icons on the right (battery, wifi, etc.) are noticeably smaller than the clock. The quicksettings panel was initially filled to the brim with things nobody needs in there. Settings that you would set up once, and never toggle again. But when I emptied it out, and brought the number of toggles down to the 8 that I needed, I was greeted by copious amounts of white space, as the UI didn't adjust properly to having less toggles. The icons themselves are nothing like the typical material style of icons on Android.

    Using a third party launcher results in the loss of Android 10's gesture navigation, because while other companies have fixed this issue, Samsung has not. So you are either stuck with buttons, or with Samsung's launcher, along with it's horrible horizontal app drawer and laughably gigantic icons.

    The fingerprint scanner is slow and finicky.

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    The Good:

    The cameras are great. Samsung's processing is not, and often results in HDR halos, overexposure, and oversaturated colors, but the detail is insane. And not only in 108mp mode, which is mindblowing. Zooming at 30X can be ok, but 10X is great. 5X and 4X look incredible. The ultrawide camera is able to use night mode (unlike the iPhone), and is surprisingly good all around. I never used that camera on the 11 Pro because the quality was so dismal. In terms of detail, looking at pictures from the S20U make the 11 Pro and 4 XL look broken.

    The battery and screen (aside from the curved display issues) are phenomenal. I love the size, and the shape of the phone is great, ergonomically. While it's the same width as my 4 XL, it actually feels narrower and is easier to handle because of the curved back.

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    Overall, my 4 XL (costing nearly half as much), or the 11 Pro (still hundreds less) feel like significantly more premium phones. They feel more dense and solid, and have much more polished hardware and software. Little things like haptics, not rattling when shaken, less bugs, and face unlocking really add to the experience. I'm just really baffled by the S20U. It's got high end specs, but so do a lot of much cheaper phones. Every phone this year will have an 865. Plenty of phones already have 12GB of RAM. Aside from pure camera detail (which is only part of the photo formula), and screen size, it really doesn't do anything better than any other phones, except get less updates.

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