Been using an S22, AMA if you're on the fence about buying this vs other phones

A short review from personal experience (being a long time pixel and iPhone user) - Great phone, and samsung OneUI is genuinely better than stock android in terms of look and feel, smoothness and usability. Lots of small and useful changes. Coming from an iPhone, I am once again releived (funny, given how I should be focussing on my poor health instead of this consumerist crap) to have the freedom and flexibility of Android over the very curated, often limited/crippled iOS software experience. T...

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A history of ARM, part 1: Building the first chip
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/09/a-history-of-arm-part-1-building-the-first-chip/

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Again, stupid charging quotes continue to be spread. Big secret: those 1600 cycles are not at 200W, they're standardised at 10-15W. No vendor is ever going to give you a charge cycle number degradation rate at the advertised max charge rate because it's going to be bad. - Andrei F
https://twitter.com/andreif7/status/1573947831999676417

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Sunday Rant/Rage (Sep 25 2022) - Your weekly complaint thread!

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.

This weekly Sunday thread is for you to let off some steam and speak out about whatever com...

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Qualcomm will not let you buy their $12,500 phone
https://medium.com/@Za_Raczke/tbd-qrds-v2-999b360efd71

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NewPipe, an open source YouTube player gets bug fixes!

Here is the changelog. For those waiting for F-droid it could take up to a week. There's a fork with SponsorBlock built-in which will take a day to update:

https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/releases....

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Unlike iOS, Android doesn’t need yearly updates anymore - Android Authority
https://www.androidauthority.com/android-doesnt-need-yearly-version-update-3209186/

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My old photos on Google Photos suddenly have a lot of artifacts, please check yours too.

I was scrolling through my old photos on Google Photos and found out a lot of my old photos have artifacts. The photos affected from this issue are mainly from 2013-2015.

Some of the affected photos

Some other users are also affected
https://www.reddit.com/r/googlephotos/comments/xmm07k/whataretheseweirdartifactsonmyphotoi/


Update: At this moment I can't see any corrupted photos while scrolling, some of them are fixed but a LOT of the photos are just go...

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Samsung Brings the Rugged Galaxy XCover6 Pro and Galaxy Tab Active4 Pro to the U.S.
https://news.samsung.com/us/samsung-rugged-galaxy-xcover6-pro-galaxy-tab-active4-pro

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Daily Superthread (Sep 26 2022) - Your daily 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!

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

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Chrome for Android working on Omnibox redesign
https://9to5google.com/2022/09/22/chrome-android-omnibox-redesign/

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The horizontal 3D shmup “Rigid Force Redux” is now available for Android devices
https://thegg.net/press-releases/the-horizontal-3d-shmup-rigid-force-redux-is-now-available-for-android-devices/

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Pixel Watch's black color will have a matte finish
https://9to5google.com/2022/09/26/pixel-watch-matte-black/

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Google Pixel Buds Pro Truly Wireless Review - RTINGS.com
https://www.rtings.com/headphones/reviews/google/pixel-buds-pro-truly-wireless

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Here’s everything new in Google TV 12 on the Chromecast [Gallery]
https://9to5google.com/2022/09/26/chromecast-android-12-google-tv/

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Pixel Watch in Target DC : PixelWatch
https://www.reddit.com/r/PixelWatch/comments/xo1z0l/_/

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How to get a stellar battery life out of the 6.1inch S22

Tl, Dr; I was initially getting approx 5.5 hours SoT with S22, but with a few small settings changes, was able to get >9 hours (extrapolated, its sitting at 7 hours 20 minutes now) of normal usage (with location, sync, etc. turned on) https://imgur.com/a/MwsjDA4

A couple of days ago I wrote a post on https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/xmjppn/been\_using\_an\_s22\_ama\_if\_youre\_on\_the\_fence\_about/
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WPR - Compatibility layer to run Windows Phone XNA games on Android and PC!

- WPR is a WP7-8 XNA app runner

#Features

- Installing WP7-8 decrypted XNA XAPs locally on your machine.
- Earning achievements locally for Xbox Live games, with a pop-up appear everytime achievement is unlocked.

- GitHub page
- WPR Android Alpha 0.0.1 download (https://github.com/8212369/WPR/releases)

#Tested and supported games:

- Earthworm Jim (no achievements yet, add them to json)
- Skulls of the Shogun
- Ilomilo
- Zuma's revenge
- Plant ...

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Google Messages now supports sending reactions to sms texts from iPhones.

I noticed today that Google Messages now lets me send reactions to iPhone texts, and it sends the iPhone user a text similar to the old x person liked "text". So now android can interpret iPhone reactions, but not the other way around.

I'm glad Google is finally playing hardball with Apple, and hopefully this leads to RCS adoption. Google is finally using the same tactics that Apple has been using for years....

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Any of you wish that Sony could make a big comeback into the Smartphone Market? I miss the Xperia days and the first Android phone which I envied was a Sony Xperia X10 Mini and Of course the Galaxy S2 (My first Android Phone)

Sony Xperia Phones are getting released but is failing to make any major splashes in terms of sale.

Wish Sony could enter the Foldable market too. I would love to see the once glorious Smartphone brand get revived.

Right now my favorite Android phone is Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite. Love it and I even edit 4k Videos on it from my GoPro.

Sony also has Alpha series cameras and so many people use their sensors. They can use that knowledge to improve their cameras

https://electronics.sony.com/mobile...

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Google camera software is as good or better than iPhone 14 pro photos…

Don’t really feel like posting this in the Apple subreddits for obvious reasons (I’d get a lot of hate probably)

But Ive recently upgraded to the iPhone 14 pro after previously owning the pixel 3a and galaxy s10e (on which I downloaded the Google camera software)

Anecdotally, the iPhone pictures don’t look any better, which is pretty disappointing. Or at least not to my casual eye

And the battery life is fine, not groundbreaking.

I think the iphone generally just runs better than android ...

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