Why hasn't one Android developer risen to the top?

Let me start off by saying that I'm making the swap from iOS to Android. I can't be bothered paying Apple tax on new devices. One thing that I will say that I've noticed over the course of my research is that there are a ton of companies making phones using Android. Even though it originated as a Google product, I don't see any clear "king of the hill". Am I wrong about this? I just see so many different makers (Google, Oneplus, Huawei, Xiaomi, Nokia, Sony, etc...) and none of them have the mark...

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If you would have a chance to create your own Android phone,What features you will make to catch the attention of users?

Smartphone bcome more common and we spend more time on smartphone.

we have more and higher rerquirement on the smartphone.

common smartphone introduce more special features: full screen， notch screen and recently dual screen.

IP rugged phone start to have breakthough in design.

So if you are the designer and prodcut designer, which feature you want to create?

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Android, rectangles, reviewers, notches.

Android phones should be able to break the constant cycle of rectangles only. Wear OS is circular.

I understand that reviewers have an odd fetish for rectangles; every new flagship phone has reviewers telling us how beautiful this "new" take on the rectangle is.

We are also told by reviewers notches are ugly, and bad; presumably because it throws off the rectangle said reviewer worships.

Why hasn't a curved edge android device been at least concerned as full feature device?
A big circular p...

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Angry Pixel user puts up anti-Google posters in t,own, slams company's aftersales service
https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/angry-pixel-user-puts-up-anti-google-posters-in-town-slams-company-s-aftersales-service-1423750-2019-01-04

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Next OnePlus to come with UFS 3.0
https://twitter.com/UniverseIce/status/1081933908466294785

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The moral case for iMessage on Android
https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/6/18171021/moral-case-imessage-android

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Dark mode is an approved Q feature, all preloaded apps support dark mode natively
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=900782&desc=3

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Googler seemingly confirms that Android Q will have system-wide Dark Mode
https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/01/06/googler-seemingly-confirms-that-android-q-will-have-system-wide-dark-mode/

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All Android Users - Unity downloads ads permanently onto your device without your permission.

**What types of ads are downloaded onto my device?**

* Photo advertisements

* Video advertisements, usually 30 seconds long


**How large are these ads?**

* Photo advertisements can be several hundred kilobytes

* Video advertisements can be several megabytes



**How do I know if I have ads on my device?**

* Ads may show up in the photos app

* Ads will show up if you search "UnityAdsCache" in files



**How long will these ads be on my device?**

* Indefinitely, un...

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Took the S10 vs Mate 20 pro leak and added the S9

I figured some people wanted a direct 1:1 size comparison with the current S9, to compare screen real estate due to the camera hole and smaller chin.

Using ratio measurements in Photoshop [this](https://i.imgur.com/hFXSexX.jpg) is what I came up with.

Note the S10 is very slightly taller and wider, it isn't just the S9 with a screen stretched to the edges...

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I made a compact 3.5mm adapter by cutting apart and soldering together a regular dongle and a USB-C right angle adapter

This was just a test of the idea: https://m.imgur.com/a/ByeFWrk

If my soldering skills were better I probably could've made it much smaller....

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Will Snapchat's photo quality in android ever get better?

I know it just takes screenshots basically but the quality is awful even though my phone has a decent camera (12 MP). Anyone know if this issue will ever get better?...

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Infrared Camera for pocophone/Mi8/...

I've made an app that uses the front infrared camera to record videos and take pictures.
And I've also made it work with the secondary back camera but i don't see a reason to use it :)

​

It is not working with MIUI, they seem to have disabled the camera access, but it should wok with custom roms (lineage/AOSP/PE/...)


free, open source and without ads

​

Download
\- [PlayStore](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.joaolvcm.pocoseccamera)
\- [Xda Labs](htt...

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Samsung braces for first profit drop in two years as China's economic growth slows
https://www.firstpost.com/tech/news-analysis/samsung-braces-for-first-profit-drop-in-two-years-as-chinas-economic-growth-slows-5847261.html

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My favorite live wallpaper (Matrix Code)
https://www.appsapk.com/matrix-live-wallpaper/

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I'm fed up with the Google Pixel 3's horrendously slow camera
https://www.androidcentral.com/im-fed-how-slow-google-pixel-3-camera?utm_source=ac_fb&utm_medium=fb_link&utm_content=71558&utm_campaign=social&fbclid=IwAR15bb1DrX5QDp4o2jRqWbBN6nq69oiQz4LyhYCqpgcZstuUCQUnzP5WCx8

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You can select any text or image from Recents screen in Android Pie

I think that's why Google went with vertical Recents [Images](https://www.imgur.com/a/7ai0YK5)...

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New Xiaomi MIUI camera features: Custom watermarks and Motion Photos
https://www.xda-developers.com/xiaomi-miui-camera-ultra-wide-angle-custom-watermark-motion-photos/

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Excited for ces 2019

This year's CES is going to be a gamechanger for the smartphone market and AI in many ways like the folding phone by Samsung and potentially various 5g smartphones by various companies and there is going to be a lot of more interesting stuff in the CES 2019.

OFFICIAL WEBSITE - [https://www.ces.tech/About-CES.aspx](https://www.ces.tech/About-CES.aspx)

Video by mrwhosetheboss on ces 2019- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3L0Pqv\_BbU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3L0Pqv_BbU)

Please comment ...

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Hands-on: Withings packed an ECG into its new customizable hybrid watch
https://www.androidauthority.com/withings-move-ecg-review-938624/

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Google’s Project Soli radar is sensitive enough to count sheets of paper and read Lego bricks
https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/4/18168083/google-project-soli-radar-hardware-applications-radarcat-solinteraction-university-of-st-andrews

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