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- Pixel 2 unlimited Google Photos storage ends today
- Facing backlash , whatsapp to delay their new privacy update by 3 months
- Samsung Galaxy Buds Pro Review: The Audiophile’s Perspective
- Rise of third-party phone designs: ODMs
- ASUS ROG Phone 4 First Teaser Out, Shows A Nearly Bezel-Less Display And Dedicated Gaming Features
- Android may not have an update cycle as long as iOS (Samsung longest so far with 3 yrs of software updates, 4 yrs security), but their update system is smart and practical.
- Galaxy SmartTag: Tag it. Find it. Control it.
- Samsung Galaxy M62: American FCC certification has just confirmed it will be a phablet
- Samsung Galaxy Buds Pro Review
- Alleged ASUS ROG Phone 4 or ROG Phone 5 with 65W Fast Charging Support Clears 3C
- Thoughts on Android tablets after my experience with the Galaxy Tab S6 Lite
- What are some uses or what type of people actually need the high spec phones?
- Not Receiving Some Text Messages After Making Signal Your Default SMS App?
- iQOO 7 debuts with Snapdragon 888, 120W charging, 120Hz FHD+ screen ("up to 1000Hz sampling rate"), dual stereo speakers (8/128 - ¥3,798/$586)
- What DPI did you set on your phone?
- Oppo A93 5G announced with Snapdragon 480 and 90Hz FHD screen (8GB/256GB ¥1999/$310)
- Am I imagining things or current flagships are starting to feel like a straight up downgrade?
| Pixel 2 unlimited Google Photos storage ends today Posted: 15 Jan 2021 04:04 PM PST
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| Facing backlash , whatsapp to delay their new privacy update by 3 months Posted: 15 Jan 2021 07:19 PM PST
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| Samsung Galaxy Buds Pro Review: The Audiophile’s Perspective Posted: 15 Jan 2021 10:59 AM PST
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| Rise of third-party phone designs: ODMs Posted: 15 Jan 2021 06:26 PM PST It is not well known, but a majority of budget smartphones are designed by just five companies: Huaqin, Wingtech, LongCheer, CNCE, TINNO. Together, these five companies have near 85% of the ODM market share. These smartphones are branded by companies like Xiaomi/OPPO and sold. The ODM is not only responsible for physical design of a phone, but is also responsible for the manufacture and software customization. Here is a look at the percentage of phones by each brand for 2020 that are designed by ODMs. From top to bottom:
These ODMs are responsible primarily for budget devices, while the companies themselves usually design the flagships. This is the reason why so many budget smartphones look so similar, the ODMs generally do a good job synthesizing the popular hardware designs. So it is quite likely that your Xiaomi/Oppo/Huawei/Vivo smartphone was designed by the exact same company, if not the exact same team inside an ODM. Example 1 suspiciously similar devices by Huawei, Realme (Oppo), Xiaomi Edit: News of Samsung outsourcing more phone designs to ODMs News of LG outsourcing budget & midrange phone designs to ODMs Majority of Xiaomi's Redmi & Huawei's non-Kirin phones are designed by ODMs
Ultimately, this is a reason why you should buy flagships, regardless if the phone is branded Samsung/Huawei/Xiaomi/Oppo/Vivo/Oneplus. You never know who is responsible for the updates for budget phones. [link] [comments] | ||
| ASUS ROG Phone 4 First Teaser Out, Shows A Nearly Bezel-Less Display And Dedicated Gaming Features Posted: 15 Jan 2021 05:28 AM PST
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| Posted: 15 Jan 2021 06:05 PM PST You can separately update your stock apps through the Play Store. Your phone may not be on the latest Android software but your stock apps can be updated to the latest version. For example. Samsung stock apps like Messages, Contacts, Phone, Calendar, Calculator, Email, Weather, Keyboard, Camera etc can be updated separately on the Play Store or Galaxy Store. You can also force update em thru APKs. Every Samsung app has a special "check for updates" toggle on its settings that notifies you if an update is available for that specific stock app. You can't do this in iOS, there needs to be a general software update that will then bring updates to the stock apps. Edit. These comments. I'm NOT arguing which OS is better. I'm just stating a good old Android feature that people seems to forget about lately. [link] [comments] | ||
| Galaxy SmartTag: Tag it. Find it. Control it. Posted: 15 Jan 2021 02:58 PM PST
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| Samsung Galaxy M62: American FCC certification has just confirmed it will be a phablet Posted: 16 Jan 2021 02:38 AM PST
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| Samsung Galaxy Buds Pro Review Posted: 15 Jan 2021 10:37 AM PST
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| Alleged ASUS ROG Phone 4 or ROG Phone 5 with 65W Fast Charging Support Clears 3C Posted: 15 Jan 2021 11:02 PM PST
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| Thoughts on Android tablets after my experience with the Galaxy Tab S6 Lite Posted: 15 Jan 2021 12:17 PM PST Just in case you were about to buy an Android tablet... hear me out. (tl;dr at the end) Also I should mention for the record, prices are in USD. Right, so I should probably start off by saying that I really wanted to love my Tab S6 Lite. I wanted to tell myself that it was "good enough" for what I was using it for. But after a few frustrating and disappointing months, I eventually came to the conclusion that there are too many fundamental flaws with the experience, and I just can't bring myself to recommend it to anyone. The amount of missteps and cost-cuts they made when putting this together, and the amount of issues compared to my old iPad mini 4 that was $499 in 2015, is honestly baffling to me. That being said, I think that Android tablets certainly have their place with sub-$100 devices from the likes of Amazon, meant for people who can't afford (or don't want to spend more on) the more premium devices, or for children who will easily break them. But I believe that these premium tablets that are being pushed as iPad-killers (mostly from Samsung) are just too flawed to be viable. Don't be fooled by the impressive low prices of things like the Tab S6 Lite or the Tab S7, with their nice designs and included s-pen. It's just simply not worth it. The following is a general list of reasons why I believe iPadOS is currently better for tablets than Android. (note: This applies to even comparing a $329 iPad to an $849 Tab S7+) • Better optimization for large screens in apps, especially in landscape mode (Twitter, Discord, and Firefox are all good examples of popular apps that are better on iPad, also the wasted space vs the iPad in apps like the Play Store and Facebook) The following is a list of gripes I have with the Tab S6 Lite; these may not apply to all Android tablets. • Unreliable and insecure biometric authentication compared to any iPad, or most other Android tablets for that matter (it's only facial recognition with the camera, so it doesn't work in the dark, it's not very secure, and even in ideal conditions it only works about 70% of the time, and you need to put in your pattern/pin every 24 hours for security reasons) Of course there is a list of reasons why these premium Android tablets are better (DeX on some models, micro SD card support on some models, launcher and icon customization, emulators that are easy to install and work pretty well, FoRtNiTe, third party app stores like F-Droid [and some other apps and stores for dirty people who hate spending money], also pricing outside of the US is different I get that) but to me personally, these are vastly outweighed by the fundamental improvements to the tablet experience that iPadOS has by design. Sooo… yeah. Probably going to switch back to an iPad once I get a chance. Really unfortunate as I was hoping that this tablet would integrate better with my phone, but oh well. *side note: This last point may be purely speculation, however Signal is already syncing with iPads but not Android tablets, Apollo dev has confirmed that an iPad version is in the works, and we have no word on any of the problematic apps that I've mentioned getting improvements on Android (except for Signal but who knows how long that will take) tl;dr: iPads are better than Android tablets in pretty much every single way these days. Cheap Android tablets are fine for the price and all, but if you're looking for anything over $300 you should probably be looking at an iPad. [link] [comments] | ||
| What are some uses or what type of people actually need the high spec phones? Posted: 15 Jan 2021 06:06 AM PST I was wondering who actually takes daily use of the higher end features of their phones. I don't mind the people who just want the high end just because but I was wondering what are some practical uses that enables people to need to use all their ram or their camera or what uses do they need for hundreds of gigs of storage or a highly upgraded 120hz screen. Who's paying over a thousand dollars to constantly use their phones for playing games? Who pays that much to need the camera systems provided in a phone compared to a camera? Setting aside ecosystems and buying it because it's high end what are some practical situations that would require someone to buy a high end phone for its specs? I just want to reiterate that this is speculation and not a rant on people with those types of phones as I also like to indulge on getting phones that provide me more than I need for daily use. This is just a question I wanted to ask to see If I can get some repsonse and start a discussion on this topic. edit: This is a question I just thought of. I am also one of these people who ends up buying a higher end phone and wondered what I actually did use it for. As an owner of all tiers of phones I honestly have no idea what my use for all these features are. The only thing I can say is that I appreciate being able to have many many many chrome tabs open without my phone crashing or slowing down. [link] [comments] | ||
| Not Receiving Some Text Messages After Making Signal Your Default SMS App? Posted: 15 Jan 2021 06:50 AM PST If you're wondering why some text messages aren't coming through after making Signal your default SMS App it's likely because you had an RCS conversation in progress with that contact before. To fix this, go back into your previous messaging app and turn off RCS (called "chat features" in android messenger). I hope this helps someone! [link] [comments] | ||
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| What DPI did you set on your phone? Posted: 15 Jan 2021 02:49 AM PST My phone's original DPI was 392 but i set it to 450 to be more compact. Was just wondering what was other people's original DPI and what did they change it to How to find that setting: Settings>About phone (sometimes Additional settings instead)>Developer options>Smallest Width edit: dont try to put dpi higher than 800 on MIUI, just saw it bricked someones phone so not worth the risk [link] [comments] | ||
| Oppo A93 5G announced with Snapdragon 480 and 90Hz FHD screen (8GB/256GB ¥1999/$310) Posted: 15 Jan 2021 11:16 AM PST
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| Am I imagining things or current flagships are starting to feel like a straight up downgrade? Posted: 14 Jan 2021 02:30 PM PST As said in the title, I'm still on my S9+ and all I've seen here its novelty in exchange of a lot less of functionality, sure your phone will look a tiny bit sharper and photos will improve if you upgrade to the flashy s21 ultra but you will lose good audio (bt it's worse than wired), expandable memory (so rip if you offload big files frequently), the charging brick (because the environment? Somehow?) and the iris scanner (bye bye to opening the phone in dark environments with gloves) I've been waiting for the right phone to upgrade but each time I just feel that my current phone it's overall better in almost every way. [link] [comments] |
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