Moronic Monday (Aug 05 2019) - Your weekly questions thread!

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"Dear developers! The latest Android Q developer preview (Beta 5) is now available on the Nokia 8.1. Get ready to summon Google Assistant with just a swipe from either of the bottom corners of the device."
https://twitter.com/sarvikas/status/1158327655160090624?s=20

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I really hope the Pixel 4/4 XL have flat screens.

Flat screens end up looking better because you can apply a screen protector that actually fits. And they're more practical....

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Samsung’s Galaxy Watch Active 2 brings back the bezel control
https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/5/20751920/samsung-galaxy-watch-active-2-smartwatch-fitness-tracker-price-specs-features

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How to disable Android's annoying "direct share" pop-up on the share menu
https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/04/11/how-to-disable-androids-annoying-direct-share-pop-up-on-the-share-menu-samsung-lg-and-google/

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Google and Arm are developing a new technology to mitigate against memory vulnerabilities in Android
https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/08/05/google-and-arm-are-developing-a-new-technology-to-mitigate-against-memory-vulnerabilities-in-android/

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Fossil Gen 5 watches will pre-install Cardiogram for heart health
https://blog.cardiogr.am/cardiogram-is-now-pre-installed-on-fossil-gen-5-watches-8c00300a89fa

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Adopting the Arm Memory Tagging Extension in Android
https://security.googleblog.com/2019/08/adopting-arm-memory-tagging-extension.html

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NVIDIA has Two - not One - new SHIELD TV products in the works
https://www.xda-developers.com/nvidia-shield-tv-2019-rumors/

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Android Security Bulletin—August 2019 | Android Open Source Project
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2019-08-01.html

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Note10 on the wild
https://youtu.be/0xVIa-BCw94

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Zenfone 6 Now available in the US on the Asus store
https://store.asus.com/us/category/zenfone6

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Arm MTE architecture: Enhancing memory safety
https://community.arm.com/developer/ip-products/processors/b/processors-ip-blog/posts/enhancing-memory-safety

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Sony Xperia 1 Camera Review: Portrait Perfection
https://youtu.be/3tHbsmYMEfY

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Samsung Night Mode is insane!

I just got July update for my Galaxy S9 (Snapdragon Canada), and the night mode is crazy good.

I put it up against Gcam Night Sight (32 sec exposure, Eszdman V2 lib). I was execting an unfair matchup for using long exposure, and boy, I was surprised.

I used a tripod for both, since it was very dark in my basement and my hands are shaky.

Here are the photo sample

https://imgur.com/a/9jJjrYC

What do you guy think?...

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Why do many Android enthusiasts vehemently avoid Google services/apps?

I don't use many Google apps simply because there are better featured alternatives, but i don't necessarily avoid them. In some cases, a reasonably better alternative either doesn't exist, or it's functionality is a pain in the ass to set up (for those of us slightly less tech literate). So why are (what seems to be) a large and knowlegeble group of users so willing to sacrifice function?

Note: I posted in r/androidapps and then realized my question had changed a little, so may fit better her...

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[MrMobile] Fossil’s Gen 5 Tries To Fix The Smartwatch
https://youtu.be/ie1wyZGYJD0

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Redmi Note 8 in the Works, Xiaomi Says, Will Be a 'Powerful' Offering: Report
https://gadgets.ndtv.com/mobiles/news/redmi-note-8-m1906gt-lu-weibing-miit-listing-reports-2080708

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First things you guys do when you buy a new phone?

Hello people!

I am curious what are the first things you guys do, when you buy a brand new smartphone. Do you do anything special, for example, anything that can help improve the future life of the smartphone?...

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A cool feature for future phones would be if there was a setting to make screen tilt detect your eyes orientation instead of the accelerometers.

The thought came to me after getting annoyed whenever I'm relaxing in bed watching YouTube and I turn to my side to get comfy and have to turn off screen tilt or the video exits landscape mode....

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Oneplus 7 pro review after 3 months: Near perfect hardware, oxygen OS is really starting to annoy me with its limitations.

Been a while since i've posted here. Note 9 kind of was the ultimate phone for a while for me... I guess until the oneplus 7 pro's 90hz 1440p oled screen did compel me to give it a shot... and overall I think its probably one of the best phones available in the US at msrp and worthwhile for most ppl, yet coming to this from a samsung phone feels oddly lacking... which would be the reverse a few years back. How has times changed!

So let's first talk about the good bits here. Oneplus did finally...

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