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Ice Universe on Twitter: "The Chinese version of One UI 2.0 Beta has increased the exposure time of the camera professional mode to 30s, and the ISO has been upgraded to 3200!"
https://twitter.com/UniverseIce/status/1188731073896710144?s=09

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NVIDIA announces the SHIELD TV Pro and SHIELD TV streaming stick
https://www.xda-developers.com/nvidia-shield-tv-pro-shield-tv-stick-announced/

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Pixel 4 battery life is biggest reason not to buy it
https://www.tomsguide.com/features/pixel-4-battery-life-is-the-biggest-reason-not-to-buy-it

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Google owner Alphabet in bid to buy Fitbit - sources
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-fitbit-m-a-alphabet-exclusive/exclusive-google-owner-alphabet-in-bid-to-buy-fitbit-sources-idUSKBN1X71NY

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[Opinion] Reviewers place way too much weight on the camera when reviewing phones

Something I've noticed as the reviews for the Pixel 4 have started to come in is that a very large portion of most reviews is spent talking about the camera. This seems very strange to me, at this point pretty much all high end phone cameras are good to very good and I think most people don't really care if their phone cameras are 1% closer to DSLR quality than their competitor.

I think this comes down to most reviewers being way more into photography and videography than the average person(es...

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Qualcomm's Snapdragon Wear 3300 is a chip for Wear OS smartwatches
https://www.xda-developers.com/qualcomm-snapdragon-wear-3300-smartwatch-chip-wear-os

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Gboard saves your clipboard data even when clipboard is disabled

It happened multiple times. I always remove it from the bar, but sometimes I press the three dots button and the clipboard button by mistake and all my last copied things are there. When closing the keyboard and opening it again, clipboard shows as disabled. Try avoid copying sensitive data.

^(Why is the point of having a hide toolbar shortcuts button if you have to press it every time when opening the keyboard?)...

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"Every other phone is dead to me." LinusTechTips Galaxy Fold Review
https://youtu.be/WGZh-xP-q7A

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Google Pay now supports biometric facial recognition
https://www.androidcentral.com/google-pay-now-supports-biometric-facial-recognition

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Battery be damned, people are buying the Google Pixel 4 anyway
https://www.androidauthority.com/buy-google-pixel-4-1047419/

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Will enabling RCS change anything when communicating with iPhone users? Or non RCS enabled users?

Perhaps I'm not getting something, but the way I understand it:

1) Both users must be RCS capable, otherwise messaging resorts to SMS

2) iMessages is not RCS capable

Please correct me if I'm wrong on either of these. But if I'm right, doesn't this mean **there will be no difference at all** in the way I communicate with iPhone users or other Android users that don't have RCS enabled?

Thanks in advance, just trying to understand why this is so exciting if it doesn't address my biggest issue (...

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Moto G8 Plus First Impressions: Restoring the G-series Glory
https://www.xda-developers.com/moto-g8-plus-first-impressions/

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Android 10 custom GSI brings the latest Android OS to any Project Treble-supported device
https://www.xda-developers.com/android-10-custom-gsi-project-treble/

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Google sued by the ACCC over alleged misuse of personal data
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-29/google-faces-accc-federal-court-misleading-use-of-data/11649356

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Who here Still Uses the SD Card Slot of your Android Phone?

I DO! And I will forever be using it as long as it's available on the newest smartphones. More and more phone companies have ditched the SD card slot to pave way for you to buy their higher storage phones. Yes.. decent phones now a days come with storage as little as 64Gb up to 1TB on the Galaxy S10+ but you'd still want to be able to store high quality videos and photos on your expandable storage when the internal storage runs out-- let alone music and movies without having to stream it. Thos...

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Mobile handsets: Nokia’s smartphone troubles
https://www.financialexpress.com/brandwagon/mobile-handsets-nokias-smartphone-troubles/1747293/

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Google Restricting Ads on Podcast Addict for "Sexual Content" after a policy change. No other podcast app seems to be affected by this
https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/dnmbbn/google_admob_ad_restriction_on_podcast_addict_app/

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Samsung Galaxy S11 to come with Exynos 9830/SD 865 and LPDDR5 RAM
https://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s11_to_come_with_exynos_9830_sd_865_and_lpddr5_ram-news-39837.php

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Galaxy S10 already getting November security patch
https://www.sammobile.com/news/galaxy-s10-already-getting-november-security-update

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The Moto 360 smart watch is back... well, sort of - The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2019/10/29/20936958/moto-360-third-gen-smartwatch-ebuynow-licensing-price-specs-features

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