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    Android Sony makes it so difficult to get excited about their phone line.

    January 19, 2021

    Android Sony makes it so difficult to get excited about their phone line.

    Sony makes it so difficult to get excited about their phone line.

    Posted: 18 Jan 2021 08:48 AM PST

    For just a bit of background; I'm a photographer and I shoot Sony mirrorless. I've used a Samsung Note since the Note 8, and before that was mainly using LG. For the last few years I've been hoping Sony would actually partner up their phone and camera division to get some real interaction between devices, because they have one hell of a competitive advantage with the fact that Sony Alpha is the most adopted mirrorless range.

    Well, come to find out, when they announced the Xperia 1 II, they also teased the Xperia Pro. It was essentially an Xperia 1 II, but it bumped up to 12GB RAM and 512GB of internal storage, and it includes and HDMI Input. It can function as an external monitor, and allows tethered shooting with FTP uploading for captures.

    I worked in a camera shop when it was announced. We had Sony reps in house every month. This thing was quite literally made for me and people like me. And the first I heard of it was this morning, when I was googling to see when the next Xperia phone might come and if they would actually do anything new with the Alpha brand. Suddenly I was all onboard with the Xperia Pro, then I realized it's still running a 865, and has taken more than a year to get a "Coming Soon" for US release. So now, I'm right back where I was. I'm real leery of buying a year old phone for likely $1400, but even if they update the line we'll probably be waiting another year for it to even release in the US.

    What the hell is Sony doing? Do they have someone's nephew in charge of the phone division? How have they not already taken advantage of their huge pro photographer base for something like the Xperia Pro? They could even go a step further and put external recording capabilities in the Pro line, and they wouldn't even be cannibalizing sales of another division, because they don't offer anything that competes with something like the Atomos Ninja.

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    India asks WhatsApp to withdraw changes to privacy policy

    Posted: 19 Jan 2021 03:01 AM PST

    WhatsApp asked to withdraw new privacy policy by Indian government

    Posted: 19 Jan 2021 03:29 AM PST

    Samsung Galaxy S21 5G Disassembly Teardown Repair Video Review

    Posted: 18 Jan 2021 09:57 AM PST

    This video shows that the Galaxy S21 is not as difficult as some people may have feared in terms of repair.

    The plastic back helps make it easy to open up. One drawback though is the extensive use of adhesive on the screen and back.

    Here is the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voYbbwkg-yo

    They awarded it a 7.5 out of 10 score.

    I would wait though until iFixit comes out with their more rigorous score for firm conclusions though.

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    One UI 3.0 is out for Samsung Galaxy Fold

    Posted: 18 Jan 2021 11:21 AM PST

    http://imgur.com/a/cNCA4iI

    For the few of us that have one of these one ui update is out in the EU.

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    If either hard keys of your android phones malfunctions and stop working, say, power button or volume key, here's what you can do.

    Posted: 18 Jan 2021 11:12 AM PST

    1. Go to settings>> system>> gestures>> swipe up on home button. This would create soft navigation keys at home screen
    2. Then go to settings>> accessibility >> accessibility menu>> and turn the service on

    Above steps would add navigation and accessibility key at home screen which you can use to restart your phone, take screenshot, volume up or down without use of your hard keys.

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    Edit: My phone is Xiaomi MiA1 currently running android 9 (stock version). My phone has hard navigation keys. If your phone has similar features By following above steps you can put soft navigation keys including accessibility menu on screen and use functions such as restart, volume up and down, lock screen in case your hard keys (power button or volume buttons) aren't working.

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    Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra Unboxing and Camera Test Samples

    Posted: 18 Jan 2021 09:05 AM PST

    Gmail delayed notifications workaround by forwarding your email to your SMS (or another email w/ an app that supports real-time notifications).

    Posted: 18 Jan 2021 12:41 PM PST

    I've seen many posts about Gmail delaying notifications over the past year or two but it didn't really affect me until recently. Googling didn't really get me anything feasible, the most credible workaround was to use ADB to turn off doze, which is not really what I wanna do.

    Most cell phone provides in the U.S, maybe other countries too, provide an email to SMS gateway, for instance for T-Mobile it's [your 10 digit number]@tmomail.net. Any emails to that address will get sent as an SMS to your number. I set up that as a forwarding email in Gmail (via desktop version), and I get the emails on Google Messages (even nicely formatted on Google's Messages app, they arrive as MMS). You can set a filter to only forward some emails as well. This puts the notifications as high priority because now they're not only real-time, but also they're in the "conversations" group reserved for chat apps. As a bonus, you don't even require internet for it to notify you.

    Here is an article with more info, plus domains for prominent U.S. carriers: Use Email to Send Text Messages (SMS) to Mobile Phones for Free (howtogeek.com)

    Make sure to test this because they can have over-aggressive spam filters. For instance T-mobile's gateway seems to be blocking www.bestbuy.com so I never got those emails to my SMS.

    Of course, you can also do this to auto-forward to another email service which has an app with real-time notifications, such as Outlook. And obviously you can also just switch to that other email service for important emails in the first place but it may be more cumbersome to give your new email address to other people (Outlook in particular is unreliable with its spam filter though in my experience).

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    [Guide] Swap back and recent keys on Android 11 in unsupported roms like Pixel Experience

    Posted: 18 Jan 2021 11:20 AM PST
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