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!

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 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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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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Compilation of Issues Caused by OTA Updates and Ignored by Google

Hello Android Community,

I wanted to summarize my research into what is truly a CUSTOMER SERVICE issue which has plagued countless Pixel users at different times over the last 1+ years. How can we get Google to acknowledge that they screwed up, and repair the devices they broke without us paying for it?? As of now, the burden of their mistakes is being passed to the end users.

The other day after the March 5,2020 update to Android 10, several of my apps crash, especially those with any tie to...

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Galaxy S20 Ultra Review: $1,400 of Near Phone Perfection [DroidLife]
https://www.droid-life.com/2020/03/16/galaxy-s20-ultra-review-1400-of-near-phone-perfection/

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What happened to "input zoom"(sic)?

I woke up this morning remembering enhanced input/typing functionality that arrived with a new android release a few years back. It made common input functions easier to see, use, and manipulate. That's pretty much all I remember, other than it worked well and I haven't used it in quite a long time. It would very useful now that I've arrived on the shores of my dotage....

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How many smartphones do you own right now and which ones? Which phone is your primary device and why?

I jump from phone to phone, always caught up in having the latest and greatest. I take advantage of refund policies and rarely keep a phone for longer than 6 months.

I currently own an iPhone 11 Pro Max, a Samsung Galaxy S20, and an Xperia 5.

My SIM card is currently in my Xperia 5 as I just discovered how amazing Sony smartphones are. The hardware is very nice and it is paired with a near stock experience with some GOOD Sony additions. This year I've used the likes of Google, OnePlus, Apple...

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The Rollable Smartphone? [MKBHD]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASwVyfebu3E

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[F(L)OSS] Instagrabber – A free open source Instagram downloader (with private posts support)
https://gitlab.com/AwaisKing/Instagrabber

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[QUESTION] Does Google make money out of other companies that uses their own edited Android OS'es? And why do they keep google apps intact?

Hello there, As far as I know AOSP is open source and can be used by anyone. So the other phone manufacturers use that to make their own androids which afaik should be free due to gnu license did I got this part correct?

So if that's true google makes literally nothing out of the companies using android unless they use other front end applications (like play store, chrome and other google made applications). So why do they use those? I mean play store is fair enough of an answer but do they ju...

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[News] Honor smartphones (from Huawei) to ship without Google suite in India
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/android-based-honor-9x-pro-to-come-without-google-suite-from-end-of-this-month/articleshow/74652880.cms

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