Is it OK to appreciate Samsung?

The recent news of OnePlus throttling software and them generally falling out of favour with Android fans made me think of Samsung and how long they have managed stay at the top of the game.

From the very first Galaxy S, Samsung have managed to take the top spot and keep it. Other competitors came along, HTC, Sony, Huawei, OnePlus. But eventually they all faded away, while Samsung stayed on course. The latest being OnePlus, who shot up to fame quite quickly but now seems to be on the downward t...

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I feel like Google maps needs some navigation work as of lately.

Directing me to the correct location still works excellent. It's the navigation while driving that is just really starting to annoy me.

I'm in Washington. Around Seattle. I take i5 and i405 a lot. What happens is for an example, I'll be on i405 and there will be a few massive junctions along my route. Instead of giving me what my exit is (IE: stay on i405 for 15 miles. Your next exit is 4), or when it's even coming up, it just announced "stay on i405 for 5 miles" ok, now I'm passing the next t...

https://redd.it/ohtser
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Sunday Rant/Rage (Jul 11 2021) - Your weekly complaint thread!

Note 1. Join our IRC, and Telegram chat-roomsPlease 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 Googl...

https://redd.it/oi36wc
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A Basic Landscape Mode Should Be Required for All Android Apps

Do Google and Samsung realize one reason Apple dominates the tablet market is because Android developers often fail to include landscape mode for their apps? Why not make at least basic landscape mode a requirement for app store approval?

Some believe Google has largely given up on tablets. Their focus does seem to be almost exclusively on phones and Chrome laptops. Maybe the thinking is, why care about tens of millions of tablet users when the real prize is over a billion phone and laptop/de...

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Yongnuo YN455: A New Android-Powered M43 Mirrorless Camera
https://petapixel.com/2021/07/10/yongnuo-yn455-a-new-android-powered-m43-mirrorless-camera/

https://redd.it/oial6o
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Who has kept their phone for more than 3 years and why? Are you using a custom rom?

I've had the Oneplus 8t+ 5G from t-mobile and I don't think I'm going to be upgrading until it breaks or something fails. A phone this new has everything I could ever need. 12gb of ram, 256gb of storage, 120hz screen, a great camera with gcam, the specs go on but at the end of the day a working phone is still a good phone....

https://redd.it/oi8hk2
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Pixel 6 real life photos
https://news.mydrivers.com/1/768/768876.htm

https://redd.it/oijr9o
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Flashback: thanking Android Jelly Bean for the buttery interface and multimedia improvements
https://www.gsmarena.com/flashback_thanking_android_jelly_bean_for_the_buttery_interface_and_multimedia_improvements-news-49977.php

https://redd.it/oilt5o
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Weekly Superthread (Jul 12 2021) - Your weekly thread for questions, device recommendations and general discussions!

Note 1. Check MoronicMondayAndroid, which serves 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.

Please post your questions here. Feel free to use this thread for general questions/discu...

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Insight into OnePlus 9 series processor and app optimization
https://forums.oneplus.com/threads/insight-into-oneplus-9-series-processor-and-app-optimization.1467338/

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Discussing OnePlus Nord 2 with OnePlus: Processor, Benchmarks, Bootloader, and more
https://www.xda-developers.com/oneplus-nord-2-oliver-zhang-interaction/

https://redd.it/oitivl
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Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3 and Flip3 rumoured price cut

Source

The Z Fold 3 price band will be between 1.9 million KRW (~$1657 USD) to 1.99 million KRW (~$1735 USD)

The Z Flip 3 price band will be between 1.2 million KRW (~$1046 USD) to to 1.28 million KRW (~$1116 USD)

Trade-in promotions will also be heavily marketed...

https://redd.it/oiukti
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Google casually namedrops "Pixel 6" and "Pixel 6 XL" in developer form
https://www.xda-developers.com/google-pixel-6-xl-namedrop/

https://redd.it/oiwgt9
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Android 12 can let you play games before they’re done downloading
https://www.xda-developers.com/android-12-play-as-you-download/

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Google details Android 12’s new game dashboard tool and gaming mode APIs
https://www.xda-developers.com/android-12-game-dashboard-gaming-mode-apis/

https://redd.it/oiwicq
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Samsung S Pen Pro approved by the FCC

Source

Imgur mirror of the label (contains everything you need to know)...

https://redd.it/oiub3t
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The new Google Play Store 'Manage apps and devices' section... is really bad

I don't understand some of the changes Google makes to perfectly working apps for seemingly no reason. It now takes an extra click for checking for app updates, which adds up when you check it multiple times a day.

More importantly, updates don't always show up on the first screen. 1 in 10 times, it'll show the 'All apps are up to date' message but when I click on it and click 'Check for updates', two new apps will show that they do in fact require updates. What the hell?

And whose idea was it...

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Galaxy S21 Ultra 108MP vs 10x Optical Zoom. Zoom into the images and see the detail difference!

https://imgur.com/a/th0DU2h

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\-First image is slightly compressed (could not find a website to host the image at full quality)

\-Second image is the 108MP image cropped to relatively the same size as the 10x Optical Zoom (roughly 10MP) uncompressed

\-Third image is the 10x Optical Zoom (10MP) uncompressed

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On the first image you can even zoom onto other portions of the photo and see the detail that the 108MP captures. You can easily read names...

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OPPO Reno 6 Z 5G renders - evleaks
https://twitter.com/evleaks/status/1414696448562798592

https://redd.it/oj4glc
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Android without Google Services is gonna be more usable soon !

Here's a simple study conducted by me - So we all are aware that Windows 11 is coming with Android support using Intel bridge technology and the app repository would be 'Amazon App Store' with 500k apps, not Google Play with more than 2 million apps ... 

So a normal person would see this as a collaboration with Amazon and Microsoft but that won't be the actual story under the hood ; it's Amazon's Another creepty attempt to create a Google-free Android . This collab would lead more and more andr...

https://redd.it/oj73me
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Play Store now has illegal game cheating app
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fnmods.espoffcial

https://redd.it/ojagl5
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