I have spent almost a week with the Pixel 4a 5G and it's been a nice but frustrating experience.

A brief history: I'm agnostic to mobile phone operating systems and try to keep an open mind. If I get frustrated by a company's decisions I'll take my money elsewhere and try to find another device that will work best for me. I usually buy a flagship phone every 2.5-3 years and do my research.

I was a huge fan of Sidekick phones, pre-ordered the first Android phone, the HTC Dream/G1, when it debuted. Loved it and suffered through early Android, jumped ship to an iPhone 4 a few years later (I ...

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Google pushes the May 2021 security update to Pixel phones
https://www.xda-developers.com/google-may-2021-security-update-pixel-phones/

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Foundry Strategy & Chipsets Supply Shaping Smartphone SoC Competitive Dynamics in 2021
https://www.counterpointresearch.com/foundry-supply-constraints-competition/

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The Instagram ads Facebook won't show you
https://signal.org/blog/the-instagram-ads-you-will-never-see/

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How to change the boot animation and charging screen on Xiaomi phones
https://www.xda-developers.com/how-to-change-boot-animation-charging-screen-miui-xiaomi/

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Pixel Buds A Announced
https://twitter.com/Android/status/1389678721850822658

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Google accidentally confirms the name of its new cheap Pixel Buds
https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/05/04/google-accidentally-confirms-the-name-of-its-new-cheap-pixel-buds/

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Here’s why Nova Launcher works better on Google Pixel phones
https://www.xda-developers.com/third-party-launchers-animation-pixel-phones/

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YouTube's new translation experiment lets you browse noscripts in your native tongue
https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/05/04/youtubes-new-translation-experiment-lets-you-browse-noscripts-in-your-native-tongue/

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Some things I did to improve privacy (and battery life?)

(Everything I did was without rooting my phone)

I love my Noki 7plus, but when I got it, it was just insane how much bloatware (Evenwell or Google) there was. With all that facebook criticism about privacy, I really wonder why there is really nothing like that concerning Google. I personally dont like google to know everything, gather personal data, have access to my files, personal notes, Photos, searches and more.

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So here are a few things I did before I was comfortable using my pho...

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Google’s Entertainment Space makes Android tablets look like Google TV
https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/5/22420405/google-entertainment-space-announced-android-tablets

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Blast off into Entertainment Space on your Android tablet
https://blog.google/products/android/entertainment-space

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[Exclusive] ASUS ZenFone 8 Flip, ZenFone 8 specifications, renders revealed-91mobiles
https://www.91mobiles.com/hub/asus-zenfone-8-flip-specifications-renders-exclusive/

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Google I/O 2021 Schedule now live
https://events.google.com/io/program/schedule

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ASUS ZenFone 8 leak reveals compact "Mini" and larger "Flip" models
https://www.xda-developers.com/asus-zenfone-8-series-leak-specs/

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Oppo Reno5 5G / Find X3 Lite review
https://www.gsmarena.com/oppo_reno5_5g_find_x3_lite-review-2261.php

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25 skin tone combinations, more than two years of work, a lot of code, one new emoji: The inside story of what it took to create a multi-skin toned handshake emoji.
https://twitter.com/Google/status/1390010888162365442?s=19

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Underappreciated market perfect for Android tablets?

I am a student and have been using a Samsung Tab S7 for the past few months to take notes with the spen and submit reports and assignments. I use my S7 in conjunction with my laptop so I never use the tablet for processor-heavy tasks or typing, I don't even own a keyboard for it. I'm noticing a lot of classmates are doing the same thing, however many of them have Ipad pros. It got me thinking after the release of the new M1 Ipad pros, I assume a large number of people who purchase tablets with s...

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Google Photos preps 'Storage saver' tier for Pixel that's 'free' - 9to5Google
https://9to5google.com/2021/05/05/google-photos-storage-saver-pixel/

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This new emoji has been years in the making - Google Blog
https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/diversity/skin-tone-support-handshake-emoji/

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Googler drops hint that the Pixel 6 will have custom chip code-named “Whitechapel”
https://www.xda-developers.com/google-pixel-6-gs101-whitechapel-aosp/

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