Pixel 4a 5G long-term review: My favorite phone of 2020
https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/12/17/pixel-4a-5g-review-this-should-actually-be-called-the-pixel-5-lite/

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Hands-on pictures of the Huawei Nova 8 Pro leaked showcasing design and what to expect | TechNave
https://technave.com/gadget/Hands-on-pictures-of-the-Huawei-Nova-8-Pro-leaked-showcasing-design-and-what-to-expect-22423.html

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Qualcomm Discloses Snapdragon 888 Benchmarks: Promising Performance
https://www.anandtech.com/show/16325/qualcomm-discloses-snapdragon-888-benchmarks

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Xiaomi releases kernel sources for the Redmi 9/9 Prime, Redmi Note 9 4G/Redmi 9 Power, and Mi 10T Lite/Redmi Note 9 Pro 5G
https://www.xda-developers.com/xiaomi-kernel-source-redmi-9-prime-redmi-note-9-4g-redmi-9-power-mi-10t-lite-redmi-note-9-pro-5g/

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Saturday APPreciation (Dec 19 2020) - Your weekly app recommendation/request thread!

Note 1. Check out our apps wiki for previous threads and apps curated by the reddit Android community!

Download the official /r/Android App Store based on our wiki!

Note 2. 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! ...

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Promising Google Keep alternative Bundled Notes is exiting beta
https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/12/19/promising-google-keep-alternative-bundled-notes-is-exiting-beta/?s=09

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Digital Wellbeing needs to support setting daily limit timers for a group of apps

I think it's high time that Digital Wellbeing provides the option to group apps together and then assign a timer for the group as a whole.

For example, if a user wants to ensure that they don't spend more than 1 hour a day on social media apps, then they can create a group containing their social media apps and then set the group timer to 1 hour. That way, they can spend however long they want on each app, as long as the total time across all of those apps does not exceed 1 hour.

Currently, w...

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Samsung's cheapest 5G Phone Galaxy A32 Spotted on Geekbench With Dimensity 720 SoC
https://true-tech.net/samsung/samsungs-cheapest-5g-phone-galaxy-a32-5g-spotted-geekbench-dimensity-720-soc/

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Apple ProRaw vs Google Pixel Raw - Not what I Expected!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjitvbnDkoI&t=0s

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The Samsung Galaxy S II, a device originally released in 2011, has received an unofficial and experimental port of Android 11 via LineageOS 18.0
https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/rom-unofficial-11-0-0-r17-i9100-lineageos-18-0-alpha.4199759/

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Sunday Rant/Rage (Dec 20 2020) - Your weekly complaint thread!

Note 1. Join our IRC, and Telegram chat-rooms! Please see our wiki for instructions.

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



Rules

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

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The rise & fall of Japanese phone giants.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voyuy1rySX4

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Best phones of 2020: The Winners
https://www.gsmarena.com/best_phones_of_2020_the_winners-news-46794.php

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When is android going to take steps towards privacy like Apple?

Apple just made some changes which has got Facebook and Zucc squirming enough to take full front page ads on papers to ask users to pushback the changes apple us making.

While we have android manufacturers bundling Facebook, Instagram and Facebook messenger in their phones which are not even uninstallable. We are also getting ads baked into the is with no way to get rid of them in some manufacturers phones. (Not the low tier ones, even premium flagship devices).

When do you think Android manuf...

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I miss phones with curved backs

I’m using an iPhone XR right now but from the moment I got it, I thought to myself what is this unholy chunk of a phone.

Coming from a Moto X and a OnePlus 3T, I realised how much I missed the ergonomics of having a phone with curves to match the hand.
Having thin edges made it easier to use the phone one handed and it felt better balanced.

It also meant phones could get away with having a smaller or no camera bump.

Quite a lot of phones by HTC, LG, Asus, Motorola, and OnePlus were design...

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The Pixel 5 is our 2020 Readers' Choice Smartphone of the Year
https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/12/19/the-pixel-5-is-our-2020-readers-choice-smartphone-of-the-year/

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Picking a new phone: an analysis.

Tl:dr; If your phone doesn’t just need to be cheap but also pretty damn good, you get most value for money if you get an Xiaomi Mi 10T pro, a Lenovo Legion Pro or a Xiaomi Redmi K30S.

My 7-year old OnePlus One is finally at the end of its life, and will be dearly missed. This leaves me, as many others, with the difficulty of deciding on a new phone. Being the nerd that I am, I made an attempt at some spread sheeting to help me make the decision. I'm posting my analysis, the methods and the ...

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Did Microsoft pull something similar to CD Projekt Red this year? Surface duo vs cyberpunk 2077

Earlier this year when Microsoft released the surface duo they put an embargo on any coverage of the software for the first wave of reviews.

Accordingly, the phones most impressive feature was shown off, even as reviewers like Mr mobile, and others we're unable to tell us that the software was broken at the time and basically unusable.

Microsoft did update the software before the phone released and fixed many -- not all -- of the software bugs. But nonetheless, they were effectively hiding the...

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It's that time of year again. Fake phones on sale? I'm curious where this goes, if anywhere...
https://www.febecool.com/R-screen-Foldable-DA85-Smatphone-p1262174.html

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The first under-display selfie camera is HERE! - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHYtYOnPl58&feature=youtu.be

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In Celebration of Becoming Open Source, Threema Is 50% Off
https://threema.ch/en/blog/posts/open-source-discount

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