Android Xperia 1 III - the engineer expertise behind new Xperia audio features

Xperia 1 III - the engineer expertise behind new Xperia audio features
Found a way to use Apple Watch cellular with Android with all features except text message *IF you have family with an iPhone
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How often do you upgrade your phone?
Google seems to be rebranding Wear OS to just "Wear"
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Xperia 1 III - the engineer expertise behind new Xperia audio features

Posted: 30 Apr 2021 04:46 PM PDT

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Found a way to use Apple Watch cellular with Android with all features except text message *IF you have family with an iPhone

Posted: 30 Apr 2021 03:36 PM PDT

I think I may have found found a partial workaround to use Apple Watch and an android phone, but it may not work for everyone. I am looking to upgrade to a Pixel 5 from an iPhone 6s, but want to keep the ability to listen to Spotify on a run via Apple Watch. I have an iPhone 6s and am looking to upgrade.

I have found how to get most all Apple Watch features, except text messages.

I just talked to my carrier (T-Mobile) and since my family members have iPhones I could use the new Apple Watch family plan to use most Apple watch features without me personally having an iPhone. This would exclude messages and calls, but include cellular service, maps, Siri etc. Catch: for the occasional software update my watch would need to be next to their phone for a while to update. Catch: I would get a completely different phone number for my watch at the same price I currently pay for cellular of $10/month. BUT T-Mobile and many other carries offer conditional call forwarding, meaning if I do not answer my phone or do not have service or will immediately ring my Apple Watch number and I can answer there.

So what this would look like is: 1. I can stream Spotify while I run 2. If someone calls my android phone I have left at home the call will be forwarded to my watch 3. I could still call someone from my watch, but they would not recognize the number 4. Fitness tracking for my runs may still work though I don't know where the data would be saved after (usually saved in the Apple activity app, but I don't view it that much anyways)

Thoughts? Has anyone tried this?

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OnePlus sees huge growth in EU, doesn't see global chip shortage affecting it

Posted: 30 Apr 2021 06:10 AM PDT

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How often do you upgrade your phone?

Posted: 30 Apr 2021 06:05 AM PDT

I've been using the Huawei Nova 2i/Mate 10 lite for almost 3 years now. My phone hasn't received a security update since September of last year and is still stuck on Android 8 + EMUI 8. I'm usually one to keep using something until it breaks (which was the original plan) but I also don't want to compromise my data. The phone runs okay, obviously not the best but it meets my basic needs.

I'm curious about: 1) How often do you upgrade your phone? 2) How important do you reckon Android security patches, updates, etc are as long as you don't go on any dodgy websites or download random APIs?

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Google seems to be rebranding Wear OS to just "Wear"

Posted: 29 Apr 2021 03:57 PM PDT

According to these Google I/O event titles, Wear OS is dropping "OS" from the name

It's also referred to this in one of the speaker bios, so it seems to be pretty consistent