Android Sunday Rant/Rage (Jul 18 2021) - Your weekly complaint thread! |
- Sunday Rant/Rage (Jul 18 2021) - Your weekly complaint thread!
- Avoid Android devices with virtual proximity sensors
- RetroArch now available on the Amazon App Store!
- Why regularly restarting your android phone is important and why manufacturers don't care?
- From the Editor's Desk: Imagining Android 17 on the Pixel 6
- Honor Magic 3 and 3 Pro specifications and renders - Yash Raj Chaudhary
- Does anyone else think flagships are a bit of a scam?
| Sunday Rant/Rage (Jul 18 2021) - Your weekly complaint thread! Posted: 18 Jul 2021 05:00 AM PDT Note 1. [Join our IRC, and Telegram chat-rooms]Please see our wiki for instructions. This weekly Sunday thread is for you to let off some steam and speak out about whatever complaint you might have about:
Rules 1) Please do not target any individuals or try to name/shame any individual. If you hate Google/Samsung/HTC etc. for one thing that is fine, but do not be rude to an individual app developer. 2) If you have a suggestion to solve another user's issue, please leave a comment but be sure it's constructive! We do not want any flame-wars. 3) Be respectful of other's opinions. Even if you feel that somebody is "wrong" you don't have to go out of your way to prove them wrong. Disagree politely, and move on. [link] [comments] | ||
| Avoid Android devices with virtual proximity sensors Posted: 18 Jul 2021 10:03 PM PDT Many of the newer phones are coming with virtual proximity sensors, meaning they don't have a hardware proximity sensor, but they utilize the gyroscope and the accelerometer to sense when the phone is raised to the ear. I am finding these phones that are listed to have a virtual proximity sensing, but I am sure there are more, especially newer phones with "full screen" design. https://www.gsmarena.com/results.php3?sFreeText=virtual%20proximity I recently used one model with virtual sensor, and came to hate it, it was pain to use for calling. There were hundreds complaints on the internet for the proximity sensor, but nobody knew that the phone in question didn't even have a hardware proximity sensor, but some software that guessed when the phone is raised to the ear. Judging by the models, it will be hard to buy a midrange or lower range device without this technology, but I will never buy a phone without standard proximity sensor again. [link] [comments] | ||
| RetroArch now available on the Amazon App Store! Posted: 18 Jul 2021 11:13 AM PDT | ||
| Why regularly restarting your android phone is important and why manufacturers don't care? Posted: 18 Jul 2021 11:24 PM PDT This is half of the question and half of the answer. I see a lot of people (especially that less tech-savvy) complaining about how their phone UI is already slow and how they need to buy a new one. But it is a very overlooked fact, that if you restart your phone regularly (like every 3 days or so) you can get much more smooth experience from weaker and older phones. Lot of people are instead wasting resources and money on over powerful phones whose power they never much use (unless they are playing demanding games, rendering something etc...), even if they would be able to fully comfortly use weaker or older setup with regularly restarting. Of course, this feels and probably is something mobile manufacturers want. Users to buy a new powerful phone every 2 years or so. I know it maybe sounds like I'm exaggerating, but this is a fact not only for Android, but also other operating systems where regularly restarting has a great impact on performance. The only manufacturer I personally saw doing something about this was Sony. They have built function into their Android skin, that automatically regularly restarts your phone. They are maybe enforcing it too much, but good job. (I am not Sony user by the way). [link] [comments] | ||
| From the Editor's Desk: Imagining Android 17 on the Pixel 6 Posted: 18 Jul 2021 06:35 AM PDT
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| Honor Magic 3 and 3 Pro specifications and renders - Yash Raj Chaudhary Posted: 18 Jul 2021 10:10 AM PDT
Not sure if the renders are concepts or based on factory CADs. The design is similar to the Huawei Mate 40 Series which makes sense since it was probably in development before the split. I'm not saying that Huawei isn't still involved with Honor, but if they are, there isn't any evidence of that (and having similar phone designs isn't solid evidence) Also, going off the Mate 40 series similarity, this could be the only (?) recent Android devices with 3D secure face unlock and GMS I'm guessing the devices will be revealed on August 12 at the Honor Global press conference [link] [comments] | ||
| Does anyone else think flagships are a bit of a scam? Posted: 18 Jul 2021 10:27 AM PDT I have owned a note 8 and a note 9, and most recently an iphone XR after my note 9 went completely insane. My last phone was stolen, and I was just fed up of spending tons on phones, so I started looking into cheaper options. I finally settled on a Samsung A52, thinking it was the best deal in terms of features for price. Since using it, I have felt like there isn't much difference in day to day use between this phone and my note 9, aside from the S pen which I really liked. This made me wonder if flagships are a bit of a rip off. This is not exactly an anti flagship rant, I am just wondering what compelling reasons there are for paying THAT much more money. [link] [comments] |
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