From the Editor's Desk: Google's wrong about ultrawide cameras
https://www.androidcentral.com/editors-desk-googles-wrong-about-ultrawide-cameras

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Can we have a cheap phone appreciation thread?

I keep a spare cell phone line on my account, and always have some cheap piece of junk my carrier sells for next to nothing or is giving away at the moment.

Upgraded from a Samsung Galaxy J3 Emerge to Galaxy J3 Achieve, was pleasantly surprised at how pretty and smooth Samsung One UI is! Gone is the ugly old plasticy look and Marshmallow, the contemporary Samsung design and Oreo looked very modern in comparison. What's even more surprising, it updated to 9 Pie shortly after.

Maybe my expectati...

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Open letter to the Huawei engineers - A Huawei p30 pro review
http://sebasphotography.com/open-letter-to-huawei-engineers-a-review-of-huawei-p30-pro/

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YouTube Music relaxes its draconian restrictions when traveling to an unsupported country
https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/10/20/youtube-music-available-travel-unsupported-country-six-months/

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Just an idea - when you get a new phone, start with all notifications disabled

I recently got a new phone and decided to start "clean" with nothing in my notifications unless I specifically enable it. What used to be a hot mess of notifications from random apps is now just messages and email notifications. Everything else I thought was important really isn't.

It's actually a breath of fresh air and a simple thing to do. Figured I'd share on here for anyone else that feeling like they are getting too many alerts...

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Dark mode for the Play Store arrived on Android 8!

The dark mode for Play Store finally arrived on Android 8 (and possibly older Android versions as well)!

Images: http://imgur.com/a/KjECT4z...

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Astrophotograpy over video and wide angle camera on Pixel 4?

How many users were asking or wanting astrophotography? After using this feature 3 times how many people will use this feature?


Google choose to work on this so reviewers would have something to talk about and it would make a nice marketing piece over adding a wide-angle lens or even attempting to improve the video.


Google is not the only company that adds a feature just to give reviewers something to talk about, but it is clear this phone is for an extreme niche of tech consumer....

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Google to update Pixel 4 face unlock with eye detection ‘in the coming months`
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/20/20924143/google-pixel-4-face-unlock-eyes-security-update-coming-months

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Realme X2 Pro Review - The Killer Value Flagship
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjmvlHZuD8s&feature=share

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Google’s Stadia wireless controller won’t be very wireless at launch
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/16/20918208/google-stadia-controller-wireless-tv-chromecast-ultra-cloud-gaming

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TransactionTooLargeException is most likely causing my random reboots. Anyone else with reboots have a lot of apps installed?
https://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/TransactionTooLargeException.html

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Opinion: Bottom navigation drawers are a great, better replacement for left side ones, and should become new standard

My points on why side navigation drawers (SND) were never really great:

* Getting to SND with a swipe from the left is useful, but has really bad discoverability
* Without swipe (now it's basically gone) you need to reach up to the least comfortable corner of your screen
* Inside SND most important items tend to be at the top, which is also hard to reach
* Hamburger button at the top almost requires app to have header, which makes devs to put 3-dot button also at the top, which is also not conv...

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Can we stop with the dark-theme related posts?

We get it. You got dark theme. So did many others. But neither did many more.

It's not a global rollout, it's server-sided, meaning you were selected practically at random. You saying "they brought out dark mode!" means literally nothing.

Personally, I don't even know why this is getting so much coverage in the first place. Google don't deserve so much coverage over one of the most simple features to add to an app, which they then remove a few hours later because it's not a global rollout....

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Flashback: the Nexus One fell victim to patents, component shortages and lack of advertising
https://www.gsmarena.com/flashback_the_nexus_one_falls_victim_to_patents_component_shortages_lack_of_advertising-news-39683.php

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Dual Exposure Controls and Live HDR+ will not come to older Pixel devices
https://twitter.com/madebygoogle/status/1186115948912283649?s=19

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Moronic Monday (Oct 21 2019) - Your weekly questions thread!

Note 1. Join us at /r/MoronicMondayAndroid, a sub serving as a repository for our retired weekly threads. Just pick any thread and Ctrl-F your way to wisdom!

Note 2. Join our Discord, IRC, and Telegram chat-rooms! [Please see our wiki for instructions.](https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/wiki/index#wiki_.2Fr.2Fandroid_chat_rooms)...

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The Verge Pixel 4 Review: The Best Android Experience
https://youtu.be/W6wuPyR4VC4

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Google Pixel 4 Review: Easier To Buy, Harder To Recommend
https://youtu.be/UEqJ6FCo35w

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Pixel 4 Battery Life...
https://www.droid-life.com/2019/10/21/pixel-4-battery-life/

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Huawei admits its replacement for Android, Harmony, could take years
https://www.businessinsider.com/huawei-admits-replacement-for-android-could-take-years-to-build-2019-10

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Phone-based VR is officially over
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/16/20915791/google-daydream-samsung-oculus-gear-vr-mobile-vr-platforms-dead

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