Sunday Rant/Rage (Mar 15 2020) - Your weekly complaint thread!

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This weekly Sunday thread is for you to let off some steam and speak out about whatever complaint you might have about:

* Your device.

* Your carrier.

* Your device's manufacturer.

* An app

* Any other company

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**Rules**

1) Please do not target any individuals or try to name/shame any individual. If you hate G...

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Coronavirus tracking app locks up Android phones for ransom | SC Media
https://www.scmagazine.com/home/security-news/news-archive/coronavirus/coronavirus-tracking-app-locks-up-android-phones-for-ransom/

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Petition for a programmable button

Can we get an extra button for our phones? Do not specify a task for it, let the user decide what they want.

It can be anything,

Camera
Favorite App
Call someone
Sos
Turn subnoscript on/off
Mute/unmute

Well, you get the idea. Is it possible? Let's just have a discussion....

https://redd.it/fixrgw
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Google's Podcast for Game Developers - Apps, Games & Insights

From March 4, 2020 Google started a podcast.

[http://appsgamesinsights.googledevelopers.libsynpro.com/](http://appsgamesinsights.googledevelopers.libsynpro.com/)...

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What are the best Android apps/games that would be worse on other devices?

I like to play games as much as the next guy, and there's many apps that I use exclusively on my phone; but here, I'm really interested in stuff that simply works much *better* on a phone.

e.g. you might like shooters or racing games, but there's really no point in comparing the best PC/console shooters to Android ones; the same way as a computer is kinda bad for making calls, or that you don't really get the same feeling on a PC when comparing games designed around using your phone's accelerom...

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What if smartphones didn't have selfie cameras at all? - Android Authority
https://www.androidauthority.com/scrap-selfie-cameras-1093090/

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There is a huge problem with the process of samsung flagship reviews

Samsung flagship reviews are missleading to 80% of the world and this is not the fault of the reviewers, the fact that for the past years the exynos SoC is way inferior that the snapdragon when it comes to battery life, thermals, and consistent performance/GPU causes a huge problm, the most famous sites and youtubers around the world are based in the US and they get the SD varient so the conclusion and 30-40% of what they are saying cant be applied to the experience of 70-80% of the people watc...

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COVID-19 Update: SAP Concur Extends TripIt Pro to Help All Travelers
https://www.tripit.com/web/covid-19-update

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Opinion: It's about time we start expressing camera "zoom levels" in terms of their full frame equivalent focal lengths.

For those of you who don't know, lenses for real cameras are always expressed as "Xmm" lenses - it's a slightly weird system, but it's an actual mathematical number that you can tie things to in your mind, so I know that if I have a 35mm lens and a 70mm lens that the 70 is twice as zoomed in as the 35. We know what the framing of a 35mm looks like, that's a very *standard* focal length, so we can pretty easily understand what a 70mm would look like too.

In a smartphone, we would call that 70mm ...

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Zenfone 4 ZE554KL Android 8.0 update decreses Netflix Resolution from 1080p to 540p

So, I discovered something very interesting and very upsetting. Even though I had a powerful cell phone with Full HD (1080p) screen, my Zenfone 4 was receiving from Netflix stream in SD only (540p approx). When I downloaded an episode, instead of watching it through streaming, the quality was even worse, full of artifacts and flaws in the images, especially in the dark ones.

After much research, I discovered that this was due to a DRM control implemented on Android by the company Widevine, whic...

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What animation speed do you use?

I can't decide between 1X as it has the most smooth and bug free experience. While .5x has less bugs than no animations it's not as fast as it.

I have an LG g8 on Android 10 btw...

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the cleanness of iOS is getting to me

android just feels clunky and inconsistent, compared to the design of iOS, everything just feels worse.

yeah, having the customisation of android is amazing, but it also makes having one design language a lot harder, and sometimes things just don't work the same way as they do on iPhones. I've been a big android supporter for years but im considering my next phone to be an iPhone, to at least use along side my current OnePlus 6T.

ive been using macos for a long long time and I just recently go...

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Samsung Galaxy A51 vs Google Pixel 3a: best budget phone face-off
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKg76AEFke8

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Moronic Monday (Mar 16 2020) - Your weekly questions thread!

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Galaxy S20 Ultra vs. iPhone 11 Pro Max Speed Test
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQtbeDnpdZM

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Flashback: the headphone jack has been around for over 100 years, still has a place on phones
https://www.gsmarena.com/flashback_the_headphone_jack_has_been_around_for_over_100_years_still_has_a_place_on_phones-news-41946.php

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LG V60 ThinQ launches this week w/ prices ranging from $799 to $949
https://9to5google.com/2020/03/16/lg-v60-thinq-price/

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Found an app to bring back notification ticker

Hi there,

in the old days of Android there was the notification ticker in the status bar for new incoming notifications. With the introduction of heads up notifications the notification ticker was gone.

Yesterday I found a new app by the developer of Bottom Quicksettings. It is called "[Super Status Bar](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tombayley.statusbar)" and one of its features is the return of the notification ticker in the status bar. Thought I share it here since I hav...

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Exynos S20 series is the worst flagship of 2020 for gaming, it's destroyed by last year's S10+. Don't buy this phone if you play games on your phone.
https://twitter.com/lch920619x/status/1239395823315607553?s=19

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WhatsApp testing self-destructing messages for individual accounts
https://wabetainfo.com/whatsapp-beta-for-android-2-20-83-and-2-20-84-whats-new/

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Google Camera app receives flurry of 1-star reviews due to Pixel 2 camera Issues
https://9to5google.com/2020/03/16/google-camera-reviews/

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