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    August 12, 2021

    Android How Samsung beefed up its new folding phones: metal, tape, and a dab of goo

    How Samsung beefed up its new folding phones: metal, tape, and a dab of goo

    Posted: 11 Aug 2021 11:26 PM PDT

    Android 12 Beta 4 hints the Pixel 6 has Samsung’s 50MP GN1 sensor and Exynos 5123 modem

    Posted: 11 Aug 2021 02:27 PM PDT

    Android 12 Beta 4 now available

    Posted: 11 Aug 2021 10:01 AM PDT

    Alright, so as it stands, this whole incident was fake (Nord 2 Exploding)

    Posted: 11 Aug 2021 07:36 AM PDT

    New YouTube Music, Google Maps apps for Wear OS won't be released on older watches

    Posted: 11 Aug 2021 07:48 AM PDT

    Samsung Galaxy Buds 2 review: nailing the basics with style

    Posted: 11 Aug 2021 11:26 PM PDT

    Samsung Unpacked August 2021 megathread

    Posted: 11 Aug 2021 07:22 AM PDT

    Livestream link

    Press releases

    Samsung Electronics Announces Sustainability Vision for Mobile: Galaxy for the Planet

    Galaxy Watch4 and Galaxy Watch4 Classic: Reshaping the Smartwatch Experience

    The Next Chapter in Mobile Innovation: Unfold Your World with Galaxy Z Fold3 5G and Galaxy Z Flip3 5G

    [Infographic] Galaxy Buds2: Immerse Yourself in Deep, Rich Audio

    [Infographic] Samsung Takes the Smartwatch Experience to the Next Level With Galaxy Watch4 and Galaxy Watch4 Classic

    [Infographic] Galaxy Z Fold3 5G: Unfold Next-Level Productivity and Entertainment Experiences

    [Infographic] Galaxy Z Flip3 5G: Unfold New Ways To Create, Capture and Play

    Hands-on videos

    Hands-on with Galaxy Watch4 Series (Samsung)

    Hands on with Galaxy Z Flip3 5G: Turn Heads with an Iconic Design (Samsung)

    Hands-on with Galaxy Z Fold3 5G: Immersive, Durable Design (Samsung)

    I tested Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold3 5G early and it's AWESOME! (Linus Tech Tips)

    Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3 Impressions: 3 New Features! (MKBHD)

    Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3 / Galaxy Z Flip 3 – Hands On With 2021's Newest Foldables! (MrMobile)

    Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3, Galaxy Z Flip 3, Galaxy Watch 4 and Galaxy Buds 2 Mega Unboxing... (UnboxTherapy)

    Galaxy Z Fold 3: Everything you need to know (CNET)

    Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Z Flip 3 hands-on (The Verge)

    Galaxy Watch 4 and Galaxy Watch 4 Classic hands-on (The Verge)

    Galaxy Z Flip 3 hands-on: BIG upgrades! (9to5google)

    Galaxy Z Fold 3 hands-on: Note taker! (9to5google)

    Galaxy Watch 4 hands-on: Wear OS 3! (9to5google)

    Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3 w/ S-Pen Hands-on! (XDA)

    Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 3 Hands-on: the cheapest foldable phone ever (XDA)

    Articles

    Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3 announced with S Pen support and water resistance (The Verge)

    Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3 Hands-on: Unpacking the future of foldables (XDA)

    Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 3 Hands-on: The first foldable with mainstream appeal (XDA)

    Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3 vs Galaxy Z Fold 2: Practical improvements for the generation bump (XDA)

    This is what the in-display camera on the Galaxy Z Fold3 looks like (Android Police)

    Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3 and Flip3 first impressions: We've hit mainstream (Android Police)

    Galaxy Z Flip 3 hands-on: Little-but-large improvements (9to5google)

    Galaxy Z Fold 3 hands-on: Time to take Notes (9to5google)

    Galaxy Watch 4 series hands-on: Wear OS reinvigorated (9to5google)

    Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Z Flip 3 impressions: Foldables all grown-up (Android Authority)

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    OnePlus' "foldable" teaser from yesterday was actually just for a 50% off sale.

    Posted: 11 Aug 2021 09:59 AM PDT

    How Samsung and Google reunited to save Android smartwatches

    Posted: 12 Aug 2021 03:02 AM PDT

    Android 12 beta 4 now available

    Posted: 11 Aug 2021 10:08 AM PDT

    Xiaomi is giving refunds to people who bought its first phone

    Posted: 11 Aug 2021 07:06 AM PDT

    Mediatek unveils 6nm Dimensity 920 and Dimensity 810 chipsets

    Posted: 12 Aug 2021 03:51 AM PDT

    App Store Competition Targeted by Bipartisan Senate Bill

    Posted: 11 Aug 2021 01:04 PM PDT

    5 things to try with Wear OS on the Samsung Galaxy Watch4

    Posted: 11 Aug 2021 07:53 AM PDT

    New YouTube comment translation feature

    Posted: 11 Aug 2021 09:23 AM PDT

    Title- *YouTube's new comment translation feature**

    Just found a new feature on YouTube!

    You can now translate comments to English if they are in any other language.

    Here are the screenshots-

    Original Comment (Russian)

    Translated comment

    My YouTube version is 16.32.32 (Android)

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    Here’s everything new in Android 12 Beta 4 [Gallery] - 9to5Google

    Posted: 11 Aug 2021 10:35 AM PDT

    Google Home 2.42 adds Nest Cam/Doorbell support, preps setting per-Device DNS and ADT

    Posted: 11 Aug 2021 10:33 AM PDT

    Yoga Tab 13 2021 Review (Yoga Pad Pro Review) [TechTablets]

    Posted: 11 Aug 2021 05:01 AM PDT

    Android desk build

    Posted: 11 Aug 2021 08:54 AM PDT

    I've always been a heavy Cell Phone user while at my desk, for work, fun, and the regular things you use a phone for. Since that pesky little scrap of RNA has us all working from home, my usage increased dramatically, and now I use my phones almost like a laptop. My setup has evolved over the years, and I'm pretty happy with it, and thought I would share it with y'all. Perhaps others can find it useful, it's taken a lot of testing to find what works together.

    I'm currently running three OnePlus 7 Pro handsets with Lineage 18.1. My first one was a retail dual SIM on Verizon (US-Mobile) and AT&T (AT&T). My other two are the T-Mobile (US-Mobile) and T-Mobile (SimpleMobile). The three phones are for: personal, work, and security work / integration testing.

    For mounting it, I use a microphone base plate,with camera arms,and a cellphone tripod holder. I find this holds the phones much more rigidly, and I don't have to play like I'm holding it. This adapter together with these adapters let you connect the camera arms to the base plate. Also, strap loop screws from the second set, if you put that on the tripod holder, are a good point to use Velcro or zip-ties to hold the phone cables securely. This gets the phones where you can see and use them easily.

    Then, feeding a USB extension cable with power and data, I have a splitter,that lets me power it and connect a USB hub to it. On the hub I have a Google headphone adapter and an Ethernet adapter. I use the extension to let me hang all that mess off the back of the desk, out of sight and out of mind.

    I tried a few highly reviewed and more expensive headphone adapters, but the Google one was the only one with no buzz, working TRRS, and sounded good, plus it's cheap, but I did need to use a ground loop isolator. I have some splitters running the headphones into a mixer, since I have three phones, a desktop, and a laptop. The microphone lead is connected directly to a lav mic I move manually between the microphone ports, and rarely, because I'm almost always talking on the front phone. The other side of the mixer runs into my noise canceling headphones that work amazingly well. The headphones do have Bluetooth, but it sounds better on analog, as well, the noise canceling cuts out when you use them to talk, so I just clip the lav mic to the headphone lead, so I can talk with noise canceling, my coworkers hear more of whats going on around me than I do.

    I also have these styluses that I like, because of the mesh tip instead of the high traction rubber ones.

    With the Rotation Control app, I can force it to stay in landscape, and stay on temporarily with Keep Screen On, and use a blue-tooth keyboard... and there you go, you've bought a ton of accessories to turn your phone into, basically, a ChromeBook.

    Exceptions:

    There are still free ports on the hub, so you could use a wired keyboard, but I got that bluetooth one before I got the USB hub working.

    I suspect any USB-C hub will work, though it was a difficult search to find one without a ton of useless crap bolted onto it.

    The Ethernet adapter, any should work that say they support Linux, Android, or ChromeOS.

    You can, of course, use any headphones and microphones that come to TRS with the TRRS splitter, or, if you've only got one phone, just right into the Google adapter with a TRRS. You also need to know the phones, when they don't have a microphone plugged into the splitter, they don't know they don't have a microphone plugged in, the TRRS splitter screws that up, because it detects a microphone by checking continuity between the two rings (the RR in TRRS).

    Required components:

    Those USB Power and data splitters, they're the only ones I found that work with this setup. I tried a dozen, no luck save this one. I don't know why, in principal they should all work, but they don't seem to. Also, the one I linked is the one I bought and used, but it's listing sold out right now, I assume any ones that look like it were cranked out of the same Chinese assembly line, and will work alike, but I don't know that.

    You need the ground loop isolators, I don't know why, but cellphones and non-cellphones run through a mixer, you can't get rid of the buzz.

    Caveats:

    I'm running LineageOS. Some handsets OEMs lock things down, I don't know if this would even work on a stock OnePlus.

    Results:

    Getting it on wired Ethernet, I expected a marginal performance increase, but I got a drastic increase. On WiFi I was getting 78Meg down, wires, I was pushing 220Meg down. There is a lot of WiFi congestion in my area, but I didn't expect to have this big of a change. Having all the audio piped into my noise canceling headphones is great, I love not needing to worry that I miss a Slack beep because it got noise canceled, I can hear everything I want to and a lot less of what I don't. With the keyboard, and the remote administration apps, I can be nearly as effective from my phone as a laptop. Nearly, there is some proprietary BS I have to run for work that won't run on a phone.

    Here is a photo of the setup. The keyboard is out of frame to the left.

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