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| Google Hires Intel CPU Expert, Doubles Down on SoCs as the “New Motherboard” - News Posted: 26 Mar 2021 08:16 AM PDT
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| Google Assistant using federated learning to improve hotword - 9to5Google Posted: 26 Mar 2021 07:18 PM PDT
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| It's Official...Single SIM Only for North America OnePlus 9 & 9 Pro! Posted: 26 Mar 2021 06:16 PM PDT | ||
| Google can't seem to fix (or doesn't care about) broken app update notifications Posted: 26 Mar 2021 11:38 AM PDT
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| Review of the Oppo Find X3 Pro Posted: 26 Mar 2021 10:49 PM PDT TL;DR: Pros -
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I've had the Find X3 Pro for around a week now, imported directly from China. Prior to this device, I have owned and used: HP PDA (around 2003), iphone original, HTC Desire, Samsung S2, iPhone 4, ipod touch 5th gen, Samsung S6, Nexus 6P, Huawei P10 Plus, Xiaomi Mi MIX2, Huawei Honor V20 (prior daily use), iPad 8th Gen (recently purchased). Also have done quite a bit of low level camera dev work for a few android OEMs (Xiaomi, Oppo included), but my opinions are unbiased by this. Camera This is the first Android camera that I have owned that I think is subjectively better than what I can see using my own eyes. They perform great at night and in bright daylight, however I think they have a tendency to mess up the hue (red hue for faces, completely whack colors in low light). The Ultrawide camera has low visible distortion, but the microscope camera is a gimmick, and the 2x zoom camera has fairly high noise even in bright environments. Purely from a color perspective, this is a step down from the Huawei phones that I have owned. Software issues Unfortunately the software is quite buggy. I'm generally okay with OEM skins, but subjectively the Oppo ColorOS 11.2 is littered with bugs and general UI issues:
Subjectively, this is the worst software experience I've had on a major smartphone vendor. Sure ColorOS is customizable, but the bugs are just way too many, Hardware The phone feels quite nice in hand, it has a nice solid heft to it. I purchased the glossy black version, which unfortunately is a fingerprint magnet. My phone has a top speaker that rattles (resonates) when playing back human speech with lots of low frequency content. This could possibly be an internal component (camera lens maybe?). Unfortunately the phone also very easily overheats (ColorOS will disable any video enhancement methods when overheat is detected). I think probably around 30% of the time when using this phone for non-gaming tasks, the OS itself judged the phone to be too warm. Keep in mind it is currently spring, and room temperature is around 60F. In screen fingerprint sensor is okay, it is much slower and less reliable than the one located on the back of the Huawei Honor V20. Approximately 40% of the time, I need to try again. Software Support Unfortunately Oppo does not have a way for consumers to report bugs, they have a forum that is heavily censored, and they did not approve my bug report post. ColorOS is promised to have 2 years of support. Conclusion I do not think I would buy a phone from Oppo again, especially for close to $1000. I have tried to be as objective as possible. [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 26 Mar 2021 11:35 AM PDT
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| Custom kernel boosts the refresh rates of the ASUS ROG Phone II and ROG Phone 3 Posted: 26 Mar 2021 02:57 PM PDT
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| US government's Huawei ban pushes business to Qualcomm's rival Posted: 26 Mar 2021 10:38 AM PDT
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| Action Launcher v47 Introduces Widget Stacks Posted: 26 Mar 2021 03:12 PM PDT
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| Xiaomi president says chip shortage has increased costs, may pass on to consumers Posted: 26 Mar 2021 07:31 AM PDT
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| I bought the Samsung Galaxy A52 (5G) recently, AMA Posted: 26 Mar 2021 04:17 AM PDT Towards the start of this year, it was coming up on three years of use with my Nokia 8. However, none of the options on offer looked particularly compelling at their price points, especially given my requirements. TBH, even though it hadn't received updates for a while, the Nokia 8 was actually chugging along quite nicely without any of the issues that people were complaining about in various forums, so I guess I lucked out on that front. I wouldn't even have considered a new phone, except I recently dropped the phone on a granite tiled floor which cracked the screen, and shattered some of the glass in the corner. It was still functioning just fine, but for the fact that the shattered corner glass appeared to be gradually flaking off. Initially this was just an annoyance, as the glass powder was just getting into the charging port and needed to be dusted off. But upon further reflection, this seemed like a health hazard -- I don't need my family potentially inhaling glass dust from my phone. So I decided that enough was enough, and to go through the (frankly quite painful) process of getting my hands on a new smartphone. My requirements (there might be more of these, but these are what I can remember now):
My biggest friend through all of this was the GSMArena Compare tool -- seriously, it's excellent! I'd decided to rule out the likes of Xiaomi/Realme, even though they appeared excellent value on a specs/price basis, because after getting burned by HMD/Nokia, I'd rather go with someone who has a reasonable track record of updates/promises of updates. I almost got my hands on a Pixel 5 for basically a throwaway price, but that deal fell through because reasons. This was about when I came across an EXCELLENT deal on the Galaxy A52, which was getting decent reviews, has decent specs (just short of flagship, IMHO?), Samsung had just announced 3 years of updates, and I didn't completely hate the flavour of Android. I could basically buy the A52 (5G) for £299 on the Samsung online store, after trade-in discount -- this was perfect! I pulled the trigger on this deal... Tuesday this week, had the phone in my hands on Wednesday, and have spent the last 48 hours or so setting it up from scratch and migrating things over like 2FA tokens. The phone feels pretty solid in hand -- I really liked the matte-y finish after the glossy slipperiness of the Nokia 8, although I've since put on a case + screen protector. The screen is quite excellent, and the photos and videos are REALLY GOOD! There was some amount of crapware to remove/disable, but nothing too onerous for the price that I paid tbh. I can imagine being livid at this amount of shit for anything over £500 though. The 120 Hz screen is quite an upgrade from the Nokia's... I think 60 Hz? When I bought the phone, this wasn't even a factor! However, the Nokia's pixel density was ridiculously high -- in fact, I don't think I've seen any other phone that comes even close so far! (554 ppi) Battery life so far doesn't appear to be too bad, I've gotten from Wednesday afternoon to now with only one full charge in between, and the phone's still at around 60%. This despite having it basically up and running all the time setting up stuff and playing around. There's no noticeable lag or stutter when opening/navigating apps, although the underscreen fingerprint sensor appears to be a bit slow. But then again, the Nokia 8's hardware FP sensor was considered to be among the fastest ever, so I suppose anything would be a bit of a downgrade. I also feel that customer support is quite promising -- I placed an incorrect order initially, and they were super responsive and sorted it out basically instantly. This post has ended up being WAAAAY longer than I intended, but I thought I'd lay out all of my reasoning and experience so far! :) Let me know if you have any questions about the phone, or other things that I should be looking at more critically! [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 26 Mar 2021 07:39 AM PDT
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