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- Moronic Monday (Sep 14 2020) - Your weekly questions thread!
- NVIDIA to Acquire ARM for $40 Billion, Creating World’s Premier Computing Company for the Age of AI
- Extras for AA uses Substratum to heavily customize Android Auto’s in-car UI
- Even some basic feature flip-phones with no touch screen now use Android underneath
- Samsung will likely unveil the Galaxy S20 FE on September 23rd
- Galaxy A71 5G review: Samsung's going to sell a buttload of these
- OPPO unveils ColorOS 11 based on Android 11
- Did Samsung Fail Me Again? - Note 20 Ultra Review
- LG WING Official Announcement
- Sunday Rant/Rage (Sep 13 2020) - Your weekly complaint thread!
| Moronic Monday (Sep 14 2020) - Your weekly questions thread! Posted: 14 Sep 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] | ||
| NVIDIA to Acquire ARM for $40 Billion, Creating World’s Premier Computing Company for the Age of AI Posted: 13 Sep 2020 04:42 PM PDT | ||
| Extras for AA uses Substratum to heavily customize Android Auto’s in-car UI Posted: 13 Sep 2020 07:10 AM PDT
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| Even some basic feature flip-phones with no touch screen now use Android underneath Posted: 13 Sep 2020 10:58 AM PDT The ZTE z2332cc is an interesting device. It's a Consumer Cellular branded phone (a cell phone carrier that targets primarily older people) that runs Android, but can hardly be considered a smartphone, as it has no app marketplace at all, no web browser, and no touch screen. The features it include are text messaging, camera, FM radio, calls, image gallery, clock (timer, alarm), contacts, media player, calendar, calculator, settings, and file manager. I was setting up this new flip phone for my grandma and was very surprised to find that it actually runs Android. However, even though Android is what powers it, there's no Google Play Store or even a browser (though kind of makes sense since there's no touch screen to interact with it.) It does have a file manager and SD card slot, so maybe it's possible that you could side load APKs to it, though I can't imagine my 91 year old non-tech-savvy grandma would like that. However, aside from the fact there's no touch screen (which would make it very hard to interact with the majority of apps), I believe it could run into issues as I suspect they have taken out several parts of Android. I was shocked, as last time I had a basic feature phone (non-smartphone) back in 2012, they all had their own proprietary OSs. I wouldn't have expected this switch, as while Android is a great OS for smartphones, I'd have thought it would be unnecessarily heavy for a basic feature phone (making it need a more powerful processor, more RAM, and a larger battery than otherwise necessary.) However, the box said this uses a Qualcomm processor (didn't specify which), so my guess is that with economies of scale, it is cheaper to just use a low-end Qualcomm processor than manufacture a custom low-end SoC for a phone that caters to a very small audience. With it using a Qualcomm processor, they probably thought it'd be cheaper to just use Android versus build their own proprietary OS for a phone that likely doesn't sell much. Still, I was surprised they barely even changed the default AOSP look even if it ran Android underneath. But I guess they know their target audience doesn't care about a custom UI. Though it may look like they just loaded AOSP onto it and added buttons to interact with the UI, I think they removed several components of Android, as it has very good battery life so far in my limited testing. One last thing I found interesting, this may be the first phone I have ever seen that supports 4G LTE, but has no WIFI or browser. [link] [comments] | ||
| Samsung will likely unveil the Galaxy S20 FE on September 23rd Posted: 14 Sep 2020 02:28 AM PDT
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| Galaxy A71 5G review: Samsung's going to sell a buttload of these Posted: 13 Sep 2020 04:30 PM PDT
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| OPPO unveils ColorOS 11 based on Android 11 Posted: 14 Sep 2020 02:37 AM PDT
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| Did Samsung Fail Me Again? - Note 20 Ultra Review Posted: 13 Sep 2020 10:19 AM PDT
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| Sunday Rant/Rage (Sep 13 2020) - Your weekly complaint thread! Posted: 13 Sep 2020 04:11 AM PDT 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] |
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