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- Moronic Monday (Mar 16 2020) - Your weekly questions thread!
- Coronavirus tracking app locks up Android phones for ransom | SC Media
- Samsung Galaxy A51 vs Google Pixel 3a: best budget phone face-off
- What are the best Android apps/games that would be worse on other devices?
- Google's Podcast for Game Developers - Apps, Games & Insights
- There is a huge problem with the process of samsung flagship reviews
- Opinion: It's about time we start expressing camera "zoom levels" in terms of their full frame equivalent focal lengths.
- Zenfone 4 ZE554KL Android 8.0 update decreses Netflix Resolution from 1080p to 540p
- What if smartphones didn't have selfie cameras at all? - Android Authority
| Moronic Monday (Mar 16 2020) - Your weekly questions thread! Posted: 16 Mar 2020 04:16 AM PDT Note 1. 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 IRC, and Telegram chat-rooms! Please see our wiki for instructions. [link] [comments] | ||
| Coronavirus tracking app locks up Android phones for ransom | SC Media Posted: 15 Mar 2020 07:57 AM PDT
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| Samsung Galaxy A51 vs Google Pixel 3a: best budget phone face-off Posted: 16 Mar 2020 03:02 AM PDT
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| What are the best Android apps/games that would be worse on other devices? Posted: 15 Mar 2020 09:54 AM PDT I like to play games as much as the next guy, and there's many apps that I use exclusively on my phone; but here, I'm really interested in stuff that simply works much better on a phone. e.g. you might like shooters or racing games, but there's really no point in comparing the best PC/console shooters to Android ones; the same way as a computer is kinda bad for making calls, or that you don't really get the same feeling on a PC when comparing games designed around using your phone's accelerometer. [link] [comments] | ||
| Google's Podcast for Game Developers - Apps, Games & Insights Posted: 15 Mar 2020 09:56 AM PDT | ||
| There is a huge problem with the process of samsung flagship reviews Posted: 14 Mar 2020 08:15 PM PDT Samsung flagship reviews are missleading to 80% of the world and this is not the fault of the reviewers, the fact that for the past years the exynos SoC is way inferior that the snapdragon when it comes to battery life, thermals, and consistent performance/GPU causes a huge problm, the most famous sites and youtubers around the world are based in the US and they get the SD varient so the conclusion and 30-40% of what they are saying cant be applied to the experience of 70-80% of the people watching that video if the decide to buy the phone based on it , most of the times the SoC is stated but with all the features packed and all the details in the review its easy for the average person to miss it.... Since the Note 5 days every person i talked to and every samsung flagship i used suffered from idle battery drain that just happens randomly , many people reported more problems and even inferior camera quality... Even if they dont mean it this is way too misleading and its on the border of false advertising (on the border i dont mean its there yet) ... This needs to be adressed clearly and directly, i gave up on samsung flagships a while ago, they dont even excite me any more and to be honest i cant believe how Samsung has been getting away with this for the past couple of years... If Apple, Huawei or even Xiaomi sold an inferior product to 80% of the world year after year and for astronomical prices we would never hear the end of it.. [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 14 Mar 2020 10:27 AM PDT For those of you who don't know, lenses for real cameras are always expressed as "Xmm" lenses - it's a slightly weird system, but it's an actual mathematical number that you can tie things to in your mind, so I know that if I have a 35mm lens and a 70mm lens that the 70 is twice as zoomed in as the 35. We know what the framing of a 35mm looks like, that's a very standard focal length, so we can pretty easily understand what a 70mm would look like too. In a smartphone, we would call that 70mm lens a "2x" lens... Right? The issue is that sometimes no, not always. Sometimes things that get labelled as "3x" are actually 2.25x, and it gets even weirder when you're going in the other direction, with ultrawides that get labelled with things like "0.6" or "0.75" - and now we have periscope lenses that go to 100x (but they actually don't because most of that is software but we're not sure exactly how much) and it's just an absolute bag of sticks that makes no goddamn sense. What's even WORSE than that is that there's no guarantee that the "standard" lens (what we might call a "1x") is actually the same focal length between different phones. I know from my own testing here that it isn't - my personal OnePlus is wider than my work iPhone when they're both set to "1x" - so clearly those focal lengths are different, which then throws the entire thing completely off - the "2x" on the iphone and the "3x" on the oneplus are starting from different points, so compounded with the fact that oneplus is lying about the focal length means that the numbers in use here are actually worthless So here's a better idea - just list the 35mm equivalency on the spec sheets. It's an actual number that actually means something and is much more accurate for comparing phones against eachother AND for comparing them to actual cameras. Everyone is speaking the same language, so there's no confusion. The only argument I can think of against this is "But the idiots won't understand! It'll confuse their poor wickkle bwains!!" - and guess what, they probably don't understand the difference between mmWave 5g and low band 5g either, but it's still printed on the spec sheet! It's even possible that some of the idiots might learn something - if they can understand that a 4000mAh battery is better than a 2000mAh battery then they maybe they can understand focal length too, and maybe just maybe when they look it up they'll also stumble onto articles called "how to take better photos" and then the world will be a better place. Tldr - Take your "100x space zoom" and throw it in the bin, tell me the actual focal length you weird barons. [link] [comments] | ||
| Zenfone 4 ZE554KL Android 8.0 update decreses Netflix Resolution from 1080p to 540p Posted: 14 Mar 2020 12:08 PM PDT So, I discovered something very interesting and very upsetting. Even though I had a powerful cell phone with Full HD (1080p) screen, my Zenfone 4 was receiving from Netflix stream in SD only (540p approx). When I downloaded an episode, instead of watching it through streaming, the quality was even worse, full of artifacts and flaws in the images, especially in the dark ones. After much research, I discovered that this was due to a DRM control implemented on Android by the company Widevine, which was purchased by Google a while ago. Each device needs some security settings to obtain Widevine L1 or L3 certification. L1 is safe and can run 1080p, while L1 cannot. Although my device was L1 (possible to check by downloading an app called DRM info or something), Netflix recognized it as L3, probably due to a bureaucratic issue between Asus and Netflix (I read articles that said there needs to be a Netflix, etc ..) Researching, I found that users of Asus Zenfone 5z, who upgraded to Android 10, had the same problem. That was when I had the idea that probably the previous version of Android that ran on my device, version 7.1, would not have this problem that version 8.0 (final version, which will no longer be updated, commonly abandoned by the manufacturer, nor received an update) more security). After researching a lot I found a way to restore / downgrade the version of my device. There is always a risk of breaking your phone, or some security problem, because you never know what is in the image that is made available on the internet. It was not an image provided by Asus ... For now it's working well. I have to say I'm very disappointed in Asus and don't intend on buying from them on the future, or updating any major release. [link] [comments] | ||
| What if smartphones didn't have selfie cameras at all? - Android Authority Posted: 15 Mar 2020 12:04 PM PDT
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