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    November 10, 2021

    Android Daily Superthread (Nov 10 2021) - Your daily thread for questions, device recommendations and general discussions!

    Daily Superthread (Nov 10 2021) - Your daily thread for questions, device recommendations and general discussions!

    Posted: 10 Nov 2021 04:00 AM PST

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    The /r/Android wiki now has a list of recommended phones and covers most areas, the links have been added below. Any suggestions or changes are welcome. Please contact us if you would like to help maintain this section.

    Entry level (most affordable devices costing under $250 (US)/ $325 (Canada)/ €200 (Europe)/ £200/ ₹12,500 (India)

    Midrange section, covering the $250-500(US)/$300-700(Canada)/€200-500/£200-450/₹12,500-30,000 segment

    Flagship section, containing the most expensive devices with the highest end specifications

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    Saturday APPreciation (Nov 06 2021) - Your weekly app recommendation/request thread!

    Posted: 06 Nov 2021 05:00 AM PDT

    Note 1. Check out our apps wiki for previous threads and apps curated by the reddit Android community!

    Download the official /r/Android App Store based on our wiki!

    Note 2. Check MoronicMondayAndroid, which serves as a repository for our retired weekly threads. Just pick any thread and Ctrl-F your way to wisdom!

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    This weekly Saturday thread is for:
    * App promotion,
    * App praise/sharing

    Rules:

    1) If you are a developer, you may promote your own app ONLY under the bolded, distinguished moderator comment. Users: if you think someone is trying to bypass this rule by promoting their app in the general thread, click the report button so we can take a look!

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    Samsung gives a cleaning cloth to (German) users for free

    Posted: 10 Nov 2021 01:00 AM PST

    Pixels don't run 'stock Android' and Google needs to give its software skin a public name

    Posted: 09 Nov 2021 08:17 AM PST

    Nokia X100 is a $252 budget 5G phone with a 1080p display and 6GB RAM

    Posted: 10 Nov 2021 02:00 AM PST

    MagiskHide support officially dropped.

    Posted: 09 Nov 2021 07:47 AM PST

    Adaptive Sound silently comes to the Google Pixel 6 and 6 Pro

    Posted: 09 Nov 2021 10:34 AM PST

    [MKBHD] The Best Camera in Any Phone... With a Catch!

    Posted: 09 Nov 2021 07:06 PM PST

    Android 12 comes to the Pixel 2 XL via ProtonAOSP 12 ROM, coming to Pixel 2 soon as well

    Posted: 09 Nov 2021 06:46 AM PST

    EXCLUSIVE OnePlus 10 Pro Launch: Designs, Key Specs, 5K Renders, Price Revealed

    Posted: 09 Nov 2021 11:27 AM PST

    POCO M4 Pro Review - A LOT of Spec For The Price! [TechTablets]

    Posted: 09 Nov 2021 10:17 AM PST

    POCO M4 Pro 5G launched with MediaTek Dimensity 810 and 5,000mAh battery

    Posted: 09 Nov 2021 05:05 AM PST

    What phone has the best feeling backside?

    Posted: 09 Nov 2021 08:37 AM PST

    A lot of the phones out right now are glass, but before wireless charging, metal was the thing. Plastic has always been around and at a certain point in time we got leather/faux leather.

    What is your favorite material and what phone did it best?

    My favorite material has to be plastic. The OnePlus One had an amazing feeling, especially if you got the soft version.

    Serious replies only.

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    Instagram and Material You clash.

    Posted: 09 Nov 2021 07:02 AM PST

    I'm using the dark material you theme (which I hate less than the light theme), and the light theme for every single app.

    Instagram bugs out. Sometimes backgrounds turn black. Sometimes text turns white. Sometimes it works fine, but overall... Just unusable.

    I feel like this is a common enough case that they should have tested for it.

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    Daily Superthread (Nov 09 2021) - Your daily thread for questions, device recommendations and general discussions!

    Posted: 09 Nov 2021 04:00 AM PST

    Note 1. Check MoronicMondayAndroid, which serves as a repository for our retired weekly threads. Just pick any thread and Ctrl-F your way to wisdom!

    Note 2. Join our IRC and Telegram chat-rooms! Please see our wiki for instructions.

    Please post your questions here. Feel free to use this thread for general questions/discussion as well.

    The /r/Android wiki now has a list of recommended phones and covers most areas, the links have been added below. Any suggestions or changes are welcome. Please contact us if you would like to help maintain this section.

    Entry level (most affordable devices costing under $250 (US)/ $325 (Canada)/ €200 (Europe)/ £200/ ₹12,500 (India)

    Midrange section, covering the $250-500(US)/$300-700(Canada)/€200-500/£200-450/₹12,500-30,000 segment

    Flagship section, containing the most expensive devices with the highest end specifications

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    Is the Android Phone Case market extremely boring and unappealing?

    Posted: 09 Nov 2021 09:48 AM PST

    I recently bought the Pixel 6 Pro and I'm going to receive it soon so while I'm waiting I thought I might as well look for a phone case to have it a bit more protected initially, I'm the kind of guy that keeps his phone without a case most of the time but I like the added protection and stile for the first few months.

    I come from a OnePlus 6 (OnePlus 3T and OnePlus One before that) and for the last ~10 years I didn't really look at any 3rd party case, always went to official OnePlus cases and gotta say, always really satisfied with the purchase. Nice design, great material, good selection of colors.

    Having said all that, I'm currently considering buying the official case for the Pixel 6 Pro too because they seem like they have a nice design (btw do you guys know if they are hard cases or are they soft and flexible? Can't seem to really understand that anywhere) but just out of curiosity I wanted to look at the 3rd party competition, and I am honestly pretty disappointed.

    First of all, the design of almost all cases is super ugly. It's either extremely bland and it only goes as far as covering the surface that it cares to protect or it's extremely filled with details or has like a heavy tool feel to it, I don't really know how to describe it but it's nowhere near appealing (at least for me).

    Then, if you do find some designs that you can consider cool, the color assortment is either small or straight up none existent. There is one case that I feel like I'm going to buy because the design is sort of cool but it has only 3 colors. I like warm and vibrant colors, I would have loved a red or maybe orange version but I guess I will have to settle for the old boring black.

    Last but not least, cool cases that have interesting designs cost so much, like I love dbrand and the cases that come with the sticker of the phone insides but the case itself costs like 60€ or something like that, without even accounting for shipping. That's honestly crazy, I wouldn't mind spending 20/30€ for a case but at that price point it seems a bit too much, that's entirely subjective though I know that it's just really really high compared to the average price you find for cases.

    The only really creative one I was able to find (don't really know what the price will be though) is Mous, I see they will release a Pixel 6 Pro case in January that has a walnut wood back, it kinda reminded me of the wood case for my OnePlus 3T and It looks really cool and different, that's the thing most cases look so similar it's hard to find one that really stands out.

    How do you guys feel about phone cases? Are there any brands that make some really gorgeous designs that you can recommend?

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    Nokia T20 Budget Tablet Review

    Posted: 08 Nov 2021 08:43 PM PST

    There and back again (with photos): iOS user tries Pixel 6 Pro - quick and dirty experience report

    Posted: 09 Nov 2021 07:13 AM PST

    Hi all!

    I thought I share my experience report. I have been using iOS devices ever since my second smartphone, an iPhone 4s, while my first smartphone was the Galaxy Nexus (Android 4).

    TL;DR: Good phone, many aspects of the smartphone experience are commoditised across both platforms, and enjoyable to use. Camera inconsistency, my personal preference for less processed photos, and my dislike for the UX paradigms of android with app instances and deep-links let me switch back to iOS though. 47 sample images below in full res.

    I wanted to switch back to Android, mainly because the stance of Apple on NeuralHash and their not-quite-honest approach to online advertising, where they just aim to capture advertising revenues themselves, while wearing the "privacy" mantle. Ironic, but I prefer Google's direction of moving towards cohorts, rather than individuals. Anyhow, that's a side note, there would be a lot to unpack, discuss trade-offs, but it's a different topic.

    Here are some observations that I didn't like:

    • I did not like the overall user experience of Android. In particular that apps could be loaded as several "instances" and launched from other apps, and how this often breaks the UI paradigms of using the "back" gesture to go to a higher level. What I mean: Say you open a deep-link from one app, like an email, to a different app, say a delivery or ride-hail or social media app, then this opens a duplicative instance of the second app. Within that you often can't navigate to the top level of that app, because the back gesture returns you to the first app. You need to go into the app drawer (or launcher) and open the app in its original instance to have access to the top level. This is very egregious and clunky at times. It is particular annoying when you have workflows that work across different apps. E.g. Email, to social media, to browser to pocket. Or camera to photo gallery to cloud storage to sharing via email or messenger. I am not necessarily a fan of iOS in general, but ironically I found cross-app workflows are solved in a much better way.
    • Also, the camera was most important to me.
      • Unfortunately the camera produces extremely mixed results, with some of the best photos I have seen from a smartphone, and some are subjectively so bad that it spoils it. The "bad" (subjective) come out as very over-produced. Extreme contrast in the fine details (often called "structure" in editing apps), extreme use of dynamic range increase / HDR processing that makes subjects look very over-processed against an HDR-flavour background that is all mid-tones with high detail contrast. The natural feeling is completely lost where there would be light and shadow areas within a picture. Subjects have clear "dark edges" outlines, where the imagine processing is transitioning from background to subject and amplifying the exposure of the dark areas. Compare these three images with quite random variation in over-processing: https://postimg.cc/PNTjnXB5 and https://postimg.cc/JyDFZgvg are both over-processed and taken moments after each other, but the second one is much worse. Similar shot bit later with different light: https://postimg.cc/5Q4dBgwC. And two subjects in front of a monument, which was much darker on location: https://postimg.cc/nsB6Ng2m
      • Camera is "unreliable", as in you don't know what you get. It turns out that when you zoom in 3.5 that this is a pure digital zoom sampling from the standard-lens. I would have expected this to be a sampled image between the 4x zoom lens and the 1x lens, where the mid area is taken from the 4x lens, and the edges are taken from the 1x lens. (Which is what the iphone is doing). But no, 3.5x zoom is considerable worse than 4x. See, e.g. these two pictures: https://postimg.cc/xJJ7279Y and https://postimg.cc/hhmwZHC1
        • Camera also struggled with fireworks, where the overproduction was mixed with not selecting appropriate shutter speed for the selected aperture and ISO, so that the photos were over-processed, but also often shaken. This is one of the better photos: https://postimg.cc/HJZDHX50 vs. the worse: https://postimg.cc/14gPmCv8
        • In many darker situations (indoor) the camera would default to night mode, and therefore would be quite slow, where one had to hold the phone still for a considerable time. this doesn't seem to be the behaviour I am used to from e.g. iPhone 12 Pro Max.
      • 47 Full res pictures here: https://postimg.cc/gallery/m43kp1j
      • I did like the on-screen controls for the camera, that let you adjust lights, shadows, and temperature, before you take a picture. That was great! If the result would only be less processed though.

    • UI and gesture glitches:

      • I found it irritating that the UI and gesture UX overall wasn't smooth at all. The phone had troubles differentiating if I want to switch to the previous app with the swipe-up gesture, or wanted to open the overview of all open apps, or wanted to go back to the home-screen. The different patterns are not distinct enough. Executing the app switching gesture is also quite slow therefore compared to iOS, where the phone just "gets it" much quicker if you want to switch to the previous app or have an overview of all open apps. Annoying
      • Overall the graphical glitches and sluggish scrolling experience on Android were still quite off-putting. When you would launch the camera with the double-power button, or when you would push down the notifications, or any other area where the UI would resize or overlay elements, it would be a bit erratic, slow, sluggish and sometimes would create actual UI glitches and apps would get stuck. Annoying too.

    Verdict:

    It's a good phone, to a big degree the phone experience is commoditised and there isn't much difference across the platforms. I did like the app experience better on iOS (e.g. Twitter, Reddit, browser), I do like the consistency of the camera better on iOS (albeit some Pixel shots are amazing), and overall interaction with the phone much better. I did end up returning my device. I'm a bit sad that Android didn't improve that much in some crucial areas of user experience in the eight OS updates since my Galaxy Nexus. Sight, maybe I will check out Android 20 again :)

    Thanks for reading my post, and if you have the phone, I hope you enjoy it.

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