Google Paid Activision $360 Million to Not Compete, Epic Says
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-17/google-paid-activision-360-million-to-not-compete-epic-says

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Trade in Value from an older Pixel to a new Pixel is insanely high right now

I'm sure others have noticed this, but Google is offering insanely high trade in values on older Pixel phones right now on top of Black Friday discounting. My wife traded her 3a for a 6a and got a $200 credit for her old phone. I traded my 4a for a 7 and got a $300 credit which is insanely high.

I bought my 4a for $350- so a $300 buy back after 2 years use is nuts. It's only going to cost me $200 to upgrade to the 7.

I'm planning on staying on Pixel phones from now on in hopes that Google cont...

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iPhone 14 Pro's A16 Bionic Outperforms Latest Snapdragon 8 Chip Coming to Android Phones Later This Year
https://www.macrumors.com/2022/11/17/iphone-14-pro-a16-outpreforms-snapdragon/

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Google Maps got a big update that shows where fast-charging EV stations are and more
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/17/google-maps-updates-for-ev-charging-augmented-reality-and-accessibility.html

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Fix the Android Security Flaw That Lets Anyone Unlock Your Phone
https://lifehacker.com/anyone-can-unlock-your-android-without-the-password-1849780710

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Samsung wants Android 14's rollout to be even faster than Android 13's rollout
https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-android-14-rollout-3236549/

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GitHub - sky-map-team/stardroid: Sky Map (formerly Google Sky Map, open sourced in 2012)
https://github.com/sky-map-team/stardroid

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Saturday APPreciation thread (Nov 19 2022) - 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. Check r/MoronicMondayAndroid, which serves as a repository for our retired weekly threads. Just pick any threa...

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I am yet another owner of the Samsung W2019, a Chinese exclusive Android Flip Phone

and it is way better than what they had going with the Z Flip, like c'mon, you can't just make the screen fold-able and call it a "flip phone", doesn't work like that, a real flip phone has a physical working T9 keyboard!!!

also DISCLAIMER, not associated with Samsung China in any way, this is purely my own review of this very rare smartphone. I found a listing on ebay, and spent about $2000 to buy this phone, I am enjoying it so far, and would say it is worth the price.

Here are some pictures...

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Redmi Note 12 Pro Discovery Edition not charging as advertised
https://thailand.postsen.com/technology/66660/Redmi-Note-12-Pro-Discovery-Edition-not-charging-as-advertised.html

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Sunday Rant/Rage (Nov 20 2022) - Your weekly complaint thread!

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

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Support for 32-bit apps has been added back to the Google Pixel 7 via root
https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/tutorial-magisk-enabling-32-bit-support-for-apps.4521029/

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Daily Superthread (Nov 21 2022) - Your daily thread for questions, device recommendations and general discussions!

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Add to Android support of JPEG XL (~3x smaller than JPEG, HDR, lossless, alpha, progressive, JPEG recompression, animations)?
https://issuetracker.google.com/u/0/issues/259900694?pli=1

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Geekerwan chinese: Snapdragon 8 gen 2 hands-on testing: it's strong!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89PNZUuaqoU

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Sony Xperia 10 V leaks hint at a new chipset & minimal improvements
https://www.gizmochina.com/2022/11/21/sony-xperia-10-v-leaks-hint-at-a-new-chipset-minimal-improvements/

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The ULTIMATE Phone Battery Test! (iPhone 14 Pro Max vs Galaxy S22 Ultra...) (The Tech Chap)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=dKUBJCH7E6E&feature=share

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Phones need more operating systems (hear me out)

Billions of people are using basically 2 OS, Android and iOS. iOS is developed so far that Apple can't make any serious changes anymore, hence only adding new features.
Android is not owned by the majority of manufacturers that use it, so instead tuning it to perfection, they focus on the hardware only, creating some Frankenstein phones sometimes.
So in both cases, we won't see much improvement due to the grown structures limitations.
To explain:
In my experience with iPhones, they find gps muc...

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App Bundles for Google TV and Android TV
https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2022/11/app-bundles-for-google-tv-and-android-tv.html

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Daily Superthread (Nov 22 2022) - Your daily thread for questions, device recommendations and general discussions!

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More Secure Two Level Unlock Screen

To protect your phone from curt, police or other bad people, you need a good screen unlock option. As I see, "password" is the most secure one, because it's hard to guess.

The problem is the everyday usage of such unlock mechanism. Entering the password 100x a day is just annoying. So, here's a small idea / tradeoff:

Using a light unlock combined with a secure unlock. Let's say, you choose PIN+Password. When you ran into a situation where you will forced to enter your PIN (I'm sure they will t...

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