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    October 06, 2020

    Android [MKBHD] Why do people not buy Sony Phones?

    [MKBHD] Why do people not buy Sony Phones?

    Posted: 05 Oct 2020 04:27 PM PDT

    Introducing Night Mode + HDR on Camera Go - YouTube

    Posted: 05 Oct 2020 01:25 PM PDT

    Ice Universe - Qualcomm will soon release the Snapdragon 875, which may be the only processor we know of that uses the X1 core.

    Posted: 05 Oct 2020 10:20 PM PDT

    Android Security Bulletin—October 2020 | Android Open Source Project

    Posted: 05 Oct 2020 10:16 AM PDT

    Confirmation of the review embargo for the Pixel 5 and Pixel 4a 5G

    Posted: 05 Oct 2020 10:37 AM PDT

    Samsung is killing Bixby Vision's AR-powered abilities

    Posted: 05 Oct 2020 02:58 PM PDT

    Google Assistant adds Snapshot settings to control your feed - 9to5Google

    Posted: 05 Oct 2020 08:10 PM PDT

    Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, and Meet getting new icons as part of Google Workspace

    Posted: 06 Oct 2020 05:16 AM PDT

    More Hands-on videos of a Pixel 5 demo unit found in a German electronics store

    Posted: 05 Oct 2020 03:32 PM PDT

    Why hasn't google put Duplex's AI voice into Assistant?

    Posted: 05 Oct 2020 09:25 PM PDT

    Google announced Duplex at I/O 2018, so why haven't they put that human like voice into assistant yet? That would really up the experience of assistant when you feel like you're talking to an actual human being.

    Edit: Hoping someone from Google/Android team sees this post and makes the necessary changes because I really think that can do it without too much effort.

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    Google is creating a special Android security team to find bugs in sensitive apps

    Posted: 05 Oct 2020 01:06 AM PDT

    Samsung wireless Dex is the coolest new feature that no one is talking about

    Posted: 06 Oct 2020 01:48 AM PDT

    I have been a long time occasional Dex user.

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    It has been a really cool feature for years, but the need for additional equipment has really made it a niche feature.

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    While I as a nerd had no issue adding a USB C adapter, HDMI cable, and wireless keyboard to my travel bag I can understand why it was high bar for entry for a lot of people.

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    However I just got the One UI 2.5 update, and I am now lounging on my couch with a wireless desktop projected on my TV typing this out, with a youtube video going, and another widow with my Telegram chat.

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    It is almost lag free, and using the Note as a trackpad/keyboard is a surprisingly polished experience.

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    This feels like the future.

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    POCO C3 with MediaTek Helio G35, 5,000mAh battery, and triple cameras launched in India

    Posted: 06 Oct 2020 01:28 AM PDT

    The Motorola Edge+ is totally underrated. What do you think?

    Posted: 05 Oct 2020 04:23 PM PDT

    Recently picked up a Motorola edge+ and I absolutely love it.

    • Probably one of the few phones that has international 5g bands. The other phone that I know has NA bands and N78 is the Rog phone 3 version A.

    • Qi charging and 5000mah battery

    • 21:9 screen ratio, one of the features I really enjoyed from the Sony Xperia 1 ii. My screen is not suffering from the green tint.

    • 3.5 mm headphone jack

    • Camera is OKAY. Not as good as other flagships but definitely good enough for most situations. The camera bump is ugly tho.

    • 90Hz refresh rate. I think 90 is the sweet spot for me in terms of smoothness/battery balance.

    • Raw power with near vanilla android.

    • The indented top and bottom makes it very comfortable to hold in landscape mode.

    • The speakers are loud and solid. Definitely one of the best out there.

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    Google Chat now available in Saudi Arabia

    Posted: 06 Oct 2020 12:45 AM PDT

    Qualcomm Snapdragon 662 is actually a less powerfull Snapdragon 665

    Posted: 05 Oct 2020 06:26 AM PDT

    So I just bought a moto G9 play and ran CPU Z on it. This is what shows up

    https://i.imgur.com/0BOZVPO.png

    It's not a big deal at all but I thought some people might find it interesting. They probably had a bad batch and decided to rename it to 662.

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    Hidden but convenient Android 11 feature.

    Posted: 05 Oct 2020 07:53 PM PDT

    Android 11 quick access with one tap to alarms, sound and network settings. It's brilliant.

    Notification bar is pulled down just press on the clock, sound or network to open it immediately.

    Edit: added link

    https://youtu.be/4DmrGJ5vXng

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    [Sean Hollister] My biggest Google Pixel 4A annoyance — auto-brightness — is apparently about to go away

    Posted: 06 Oct 2020 01:49 AM PDT

    Mauri QHD on Twitter: Exynos 2100? the successor of the Exynos 990 is gonna be announced at any moment now; they have everything ready for it; it should be way better than the 990

    Posted: 04 Oct 2020 11:01 PM PDT

    WearOS vs Tizen comparison for Android users

    Posted: 05 Oct 2020 04:19 PM PDT

    I recently bought a TicWatch Pro 3,and quite frankly, this has exceeded expectations and marks a huge change for wearables. I've owned several smartwatches with different OS's, including Samsung and previous WearOS watches, and thought I'd share my experience with how well this works with Android, and why I think this is a game changer.

    My previous WearOS watch was a Fossil Sport Gen 4 and my Samsung watch is a Galaxy Watch Active 2. The low RAM and poor CPU made the Fossil almost redundant. It was almost always quicker to get my phone out than to grind through the watch, which made it basically redundant. Well I can happily say, not any more; this TicWatch with the new 4100 CPU and 1gb of RAM is smooth and WearOS becomes useful. Read on for more!

    Notifications

    Nothing compares to WearOS here. The notifications match what's on your phone and they do it well.

    The most common thing I want to do with notifications is acknowledge and dismiss them. There is no quick way to do this in Tizen – it takes 2 'touches' and a scroll from the alert screen. You can dismiss all notifications from a single app quite quickly with a sqipe, but usually I don't want to dismiss all my notifications in one go so that's basically redundant. On WearOS it is a single swipe just as it is on your phone.

    Canned responses actually work, whereas on Tizen, it'd jumble your chosen responses in with a load of random suggestions, even if I told it not to.

    Writing my own responses is actually possible and surprisingly easy on WearOS's swipe keyboard. Not so on Tizen…

    On the whole WearOS destroys Tizen here for useability, and it isn't even close.

    Winner: Ticwatch

    Smoothness

    Both are pretty even here. I'd say WearOS has more well-designed watch faces, but Tizen has more animated watch faces. I think that'll change now WearOS has a decent processor. Neither are as smooth as an Apple watch, but that thing can't even make it through 24 hours on a single charge, so if you want sleep tracking it's not really an option.

    Winner: Tie

    Sports Tracking

    Both very similar here. Samsung Health has more options than Goole Fit/Tic Health, but I wouldn't necessarily say it is better. I don't like that Samsung Health is full of ads, so maybe that gives the edge to WearOS.

    Ultimately, you're likely to put your own fitness tracking apps on either, and in that regard WearOS seems to have more options. Also, the Strava Sync actually works properly on WearOS, whereas its integration with Samsung Health is... questionable. It also logs your activities in Samsung Health twice (once via Health directly, and once in Health again after it has been sync'd with Strava). Samsung's software leaves a lot ot be desired and this is typical of their glossy UI, but poor implementation.

    Winner: WearOS

    Health Tracking

    The watches are similar here.

    Ticwatch seems to get my pulse much more quickly and reliably and also does blood oxygen.

    Samsung Watch Active 2 allegedly will do ECG and Blood pressure, but after a year, neither have made it out of Singapore, which really irritated me. So for now, unless you're in Singapore, TicWatch has more sensors and better ability to sync across more apps.

    Winner: Ticwatch

    Music

    Samsung has official Spotify (although the UI is flakey) and Tidal with offline support, but WearOS has Play Music offline until the service is retired. It also unofficially has Spotify offline support with an app. Neither have Youtube Music which is my preferred service, so both are losers in that regard.

    This pushed me to revert to classic MP3 transfer. The Samsung watch made this miserable – I had to sync every MP3 one by one (no playlist support) or tell it to sync automatically, which would sync everything on the phone, including podcasts, audiobooks and my white noise. It filled my watch's memory up every time I downloaded a white noise track and was infuriating and there was no way to exclude folders.

    On WearOS, there are multiple ways to get MP3s onto the watch.

    Winner: WearOS.

    Payments

    Both watches support mobile payments. Samsung Pay supported very few banks, and didn't support my main bank.

    Samsung's watch also requires you to long-press to wake the pay app, and then put in a fiddly pin code every time.

    WearOS supports all of my banks, the tap-and-pay launches with one button press and it seems to be way more reliable.

    Winner: WearOS

    Sleep Tracking

    Samsung Health's sleep tracking is notoriously poor. I had two Watch Active 2's, and both tracked so little 'deep sleep' that I'd probably be dead if it was correct. I tried the Sleep as Android app, but found it unreliable and the UI poor.

    The Tic Sleep app on my Ticwatch is absolutely fantastic and matches my Mi Band.

    Winner: WearOS

    Voice Assistant

    Bixby is a joke – nothing integrates with it unless you have a physical SmartThings Hub. I believe even Samsung are dropping it.

    Google Asistant works with Google Home right off the bat, with no hardware required. It is also way better at answering questions. Google Assistant also launches more quickly.

    However, the 'OK Google' listening seems to be broken across all wear devices, and the assistant itself has some missing UI elements. On the whole, it wins, but it could be better.

    Winner: WearOS

    Battery

    I'm getting almost 3 days from both watches with always-on-display and all features activated. The Ticwatch has an additional LCD screen which I don't like the aesthetics of, but I believe this would take me well over 3 days if I could stand to look at it.

    Winner: Tie

    Design

    This is subjective, but for me, the Galaxy Watch Active 2 is the best looking smartwatch bar none. It looks basically like an Apple watch, but round, which I prefer. The build quality is amazing and its minimal design lets you dictate the look from your chose watch face.

    Samsung also has a fantastic native watch face creator which is easy to use and doesn't require you to have adware-ridden battery hogs like Facer installed.

    The Ticwatch looks more like a regular Galaxy Watch, which is modelled on traditional watches. It isn't bad, but I'd rather have something less polarising as the physical design of the watch kinda dictates what faces will 'work', and the bezels feel huge. I really wish the bezel didn't have numbers on it as I prefer my watch faces without numbers.

    Winner: Samsung

    So there you have it. I think with the Qualcomm 4100(+) CPUs, WearOS has suddenly become viable, and the Galaxy Watch series has been knocked off the top spot as 'best wearable for Android users'. In every category that make up my criteria, the Ticwatch matches or supasses the Samsung counterpart.

    When more models are release on 4100 and consumers start picking these up, I think we'll see rapid dev interest and improvements to the platform.

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