"Even though the absolute power isn’t that much bigger than the Cortex A55 cores, the Tempest and Mistral cores are 2.5x faster than an A55, which also results in energy efficiency that is around 2x better." - AnandTech

Everyone always talks about the big core scores, but phones are usually running on these little cores. The A55 is 2 years old at this point and obviously in dire need of an update. On [SPEC2006](https://images.anandtech.com/doci/14072/SPEC2006eff-overview_575px.png), it's barely more efficient than an A76.

This seems to be a far more important issue than the perf discrepancy between Apple and ARM big cores. At least those are similar efficiency wise.

Link to article: https://www.anandtech.com/...

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Android Security & Privacy 2018 Year in Review - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ct1RBFjwI0

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Android 2018 Security and Privacy Year in Review report
https://source.android.com/security/overview/reports

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Huawei Phones Now More Expensive Than Samsung
http://english.chosun.com/m/news/article.amp.html?contid=2019032901547

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Researchers Find Google Play Store Apps Were Actually Government Malware
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/43z93g/hackers-hid-android-malware-in-google-play-store-exodus-esurv

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Why not actual album structure in Google photos?

Wouldn't it be nice if there was actual album of photos instead just referencing photos to an album? Right now there is no easy way to find photos not included in an album. Imagine if you want to categorize backed up photos of the last month. You have screenshots, meme you downloaded, some photos of really important documents, and photos you took in the dinner outings. You create following albums to organize them
"meme", "important doc", "outings" "screenshots".

You organize some of the photos ...

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T-Mobile S8/+ Pie Update Rolling Out!

Just got and downloaded it! Recommend a fresh install on this one!...

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VIDEO: This Android-Powered Projector is Cool, But Costs a Lot of Money
https://www.droid-life.com/2019/03/28/video-puppy-cube/

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"Google is thinking way ahead. They have added GSI public keys to allow for booting a GSI with stock vbmeta. The keys are for future Android S and Android R GSIs. With Android on Tap, you also won't need an unlocked bootloader to install a GSI" - Mishaal Rahman
https://twitter.com/MishaalRahman/status/1111655873838043136

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Remember how Google once left Google Voice abandoned without any updates for 5 years and then suddenly remembered they owned it?

[Yeah. It was weird.](https://blog.google/products/google-voice/ringing-2017-updates-our-google-voice-apps/)

I had used the Voice since it launched in 2009 so I could have a local number where I was attending college until I moved in 2015 across the country. Then all of a sudden, 5 years after it was last updated, Google released an update to the app and have since kept it updated with bug fixes, features, and more. Still surprised it's outlived so many of their other ventures. ...

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Saturday APPreciation (Mar 30 2019) - Your weekly app recommendation/request thread!

Note 1. [Check out our apps wiki](https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/wiki/index#wiki_apps) for previous threads and apps curated by the reddit Android community!

***[NEW: Download the official /r/Android App Store based on our wiki!](https://github.com/d4rken/reddit-android-appstore/releases)

Note 2. Join us at **/r/MoronicMondayAndroid**, a sub serving as a repository for our retired weekly threads. Just pick any thread and Ctrl-F your way to wisdom!

Note 2. Join our Discord, IRC, and Teleg...

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The bundled non-removable virus that is called Lenovo User Experience

I recently rooted my (old-ish) Lenovo tb2-x30f tablet with official firmware 6.0.1, and set out to uninstall or disable all the unwanted apps that made it so sluggish, but I've hit a snag. I disabled the ones I could and froze the others in Titanium Backup. These were the first to go:

* Lenovo ID

* Market Feedback Agent

* User Experience

So far, so good. Who needs that stuff anyway? Imagine my surprise when Magisk asked me if I wanted to give *User Experience* superuser privileges. Why would...

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LinkedIn Data Says Flutter Is Fastest-Growing Skill Among Software Engineers
https://adtmag.com/articles/2019/03/29/linkedin-skills.aspx

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Found this gem: Gallery, no ads or IAPs. Has even content recognition sorting.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tclhz.gallery

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Gboard Dictation Typing syllables?

Sometimes, when my bad spelling and swipe texting team up to get the best of me, I cannot manage to get a word to appear thus I use the dictation mic to get that word. Well, this morning I did this and said "Aggravate" (yes, chuckle all you want that I couldn't remember if it was aggra- or aggre-) and gboard typed it out as I was saying it! Instead of waiting to type the whole word.

So, to test it, I did it again but said indecision really slowly and it typed out each syllable as I moved their...

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The Samsung Galaxy Tab S5 may have the Qualcomm Snapdragon 855
https://www.xda-developers.com/samsung-galaxy-tab-s5-snapdragon-855-leak/

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Samsung Galaxy S10+ versus OnePlus 6T: camera comparison
https://phandroid.com/2019/03/30/samsung-galaxy-s10-versus-oneplus-6t-camera-comparison/

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Google's Hiroshi Lockheimer teasing unreleased phone
https://twitter.com/lockheimer/status/1112023542462214145

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Removed features since the Pie update, and the state of Samsung tech support.

I recently contacted Samsung because I noticed my Note 9 was missing a feature that's always been available. Tech support confirmed Pie rolled back the option to disable the proximity sensor during calls (dimming the screen when put up to your ear). Albeit not a very important feature, I can't understand what made them want to remove options after an update. It seems pretty counter productive to roll back options while trying to move forward.

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The email also included at the end, "Plea...

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Vlad Savov on Twitter: So Pixel 3 without Night Sight (what the eye sees), Pixel 3 with Night Sight, P30 Pro full auto (the F kind of sorcery is this?)
https://twitter.com/vladsavov/status/1111872621027774464?s=19

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Advice for those switching from IOS to android

A post I wrote to help those switching from IOS to android. It’s geared more towards Samsung but a lot of it applies to any android phone.

https://www.reddit.com/r/samsung/comments/b7ea3k/advice_for_those_switching_from_ios_to/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app...

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