Google Deprecated AOSP Dialer and Messages apps
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The Android Open Source Project (AOSP) ships with a variety of open-source apps by Google but it has now deprecated support for the Dialer and Messages apps
Google notes:
"This app is not actively supported and the source is only available as a reference. This project will be removed from the source manifest sometime in the future"
This won't affect many OEMs as they ship their own Dialer & Messages apps or use Google variants instead of AOSP.
This could affect Custom ROMs as they will need to ship Google Dialer and Messages apps or develop their own apps.
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The Android Open Source Project (AOSP) ships with a variety of open-source apps by Google but it has now deprecated support for the Dialer and Messages apps
Google notes:
"This app is not actively supported and the source is only available as a reference. This project will be removed from the source manifest sometime in the future"
This won't affect many OEMs as they ship their own Dialer & Messages apps or use Google variants instead of AOSP.
This could affect Custom ROMs as they will need to ship Google Dialer and Messages apps or develop their own apps.
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Madhav Sheth announced he Resigned from Realme
Madhav Sheth, Realme Vice President and President of Realme's International Business Group, has quit Realme after 5 years.
He was also the former Realme India CEO
It was already known that Sheth will exit Realme within a week and he did.
Now might join HONOR to help them launch their smartphones in India
Honor is entirely separate company from Huawei and does NOT uses Kirin SoC nor EMUI.
They uses it own MagicUI that comes with Google apps
Its kinda great to have HONOR smartphones return in India as currently the "quality" of smartphone provided by all chinese brands are garbage as full with Motherboard, camera, SystemUI, display issues
Honor R&D is pretty solid even. Expect a good competition to Xiaomi and Realme in mid-range segment.
Honor will launch its 1st smartphone in August in India
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Madhav Sheth, Realme Vice President and President of Realme's International Business Group, has quit Realme after 5 years.
He was also the former Realme India CEO
It was already known that Sheth will exit Realme within a week and he did.
Now might join HONOR to help them launch their smartphones in India
Honor is entirely separate company from Huawei and does NOT uses Kirin SoC nor EMUI.
They uses it own MagicUI that comes with Google apps
Its kinda great to have HONOR smartphones return in India as currently the "quality" of smartphone provided by all chinese brands are garbage as full with Motherboard, camera, SystemUI, display issues
Honor R&D is pretty solid even. Expect a good competition to Xiaomi and Realme in mid-range segment.
Honor will launch its 1st smartphone in August in India
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YouTube Lowered the Monetization Requirements for Creators
The YouTube Partner Program (YPP) allows creators to monetize their content. But now YouTube has eases it more.
New Requirements:
• 500 subscribers reached
• 3000 watch hours OR 3 Million short views
Old Requirements:
• 1000 subscribers
• 4000 watch hours OR 10 Million short views
New requirements will first roll out in USA, UK, Canada, Taiwan and South Korea.
Note: For creators, main part of Monetization "Long Videos or Shorts Video feed Ad revenue"
For this feature, creators needs to meet Old requirements only
Super Thanks, Channel Membership and Shopping comes with New requirements
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The YouTube Partner Program (YPP) allows creators to monetize their content. But now YouTube has eases it more.
New Requirements:
• 500 subscribers reached
• 3000 watch hours OR 3 Million short views
Old Requirements:
• 1000 subscribers
• 4000 watch hours OR 10 Million short views
New requirements will first roll out in USA, UK, Canada, Taiwan and South Korea.
Note: For creators, main part of Monetization "Long Videos or Shorts Video feed Ad revenue"
For this feature, creators needs to meet Old requirements only
Super Thanks, Channel Membership and Shopping comes with New requirements
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Forwarded from Google Pixel Hub
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Google Domains has been sold to Squarespace for $180 million
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Squarespace has announced today its acquisition of Google Domains in a $180 million deal, which include the approximately 10 million hosted domains.
With the help of Google, Squarespace will provide a seamless transition for all Google Domains customers to their platform. They will also honor all existing domain renewal prices for at least 12 months after the acquisition which is expected to close in Q3 2023.
As part of the agreement, Squarespace will become the exclusive domains provider for any customer purchasing a domain along with their Workspace subnoscription from Google directly for a minimum of three years.
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Google Domains has been sold to Squarespace for $180 million
9To5Google
Squarespace has announced today its acquisition of Google Domains in a $180 million deal, which include the approximately 10 million hosted domains.
With the help of Google, Squarespace will provide a seamless transition for all Google Domains customers to their platform. They will also honor all existing domain renewal prices for at least 12 months after the acquisition which is expected to close in Q3 2023.
As part of the agreement, Squarespace will become the exclusive domains provider for any customer purchasing a domain along with their Workspace subnoscription from Google directly for a minimum of three years.
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Official Press Images for Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 and Galaxy Z Flip 5 leaked
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5
Camera: 50MP main with OIS + 12MP Ultra-Wide + 10MP Telephoto
Colors: Beige, Black, and Light Blue
Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5
Camera: 12MP main + 12MP Ultra-Wide
Colors: Beige, Gray, Light Green, and Light Pink
Both Foldable and Flipable device will come with Snapdragon 8 gen 2 for Galaxy (8 Gen 2 overclocked)
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Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5
Camera: 50MP main with OIS + 12MP Ultra-Wide + 10MP Telephoto
Colors: Beige, Black, and Light Blue
Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5
Camera: 12MP main + 12MP Ultra-Wide
Colors: Beige, Gray, Light Green, and Light Pink
Both Foldable and Flipable device will come with Snapdragon 8 gen 2 for Galaxy (8 Gen 2 overclocked)
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The Samsung Galaxy Watch 6 along with Classic variant 👀
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Physical Rotating Bezels around circular display is BACK !
It will be available only on galaxy watch 6 classic variant
Samsung Exynos W980 chipset built on improved 5nm process
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Physical Rotating Bezels around circular display is BACK !
It will be available only on galaxy watch 6 classic variant
Samsung Exynos W980 chipset built on improved 5nm process
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Fairphone 5 Official Renders
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Fairphone 4 was launched 2 years back which offered 5 yrs official warranty and 5 yrs of Android Upgrades
Now Fairphone 5 is coming soon and it will come in a new transparent model as shown in renders along with a new Light Blue color
Fairphone 5 will come with selfie camera cutout unlike waterdrop notch in Fairphone 4
On the back it will have a primary camera along with Ultra wide and also a Time of Flight sensor
An easily replaceable battery. Likewise, there’s no adhesive anywhere in the phone, so you’ll also be able to order replacement parts to fix the phone yourself if anything go wrong.
Specifications are unknown currently but Fairphone 5 is launching this year
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Fairphone 4 was launched 2 years back which offered 5 yrs official warranty and 5 yrs of Android Upgrades
Now Fairphone 5 is coming soon and it will come in a new transparent model as shown in renders along with a new Light Blue color
Fairphone 5 will come with selfie camera cutout unlike waterdrop notch in Fairphone 4
On the back it will have a primary camera along with Ultra wide and also a Time of Flight sensor
An easily replaceable battery. Likewise, there’s no adhesive anywhere in the phone, so you’ll also be able to order replacement parts to fix the phone yourself if anything go wrong.
Specifications are unknown currently but Fairphone 5 is launching this year
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All colours of Samsung Galaxy Watch 6 with its Classic variant leaked
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Asus Zenfone 10 will come in 5 colours
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Google Pixel 8 series Leaked Specifications
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Pixel 8 Pro:
• 6.7" 1344x2922 resolution; 490 PPI
• Flat OLED LTPO Display
• 120Hz Refresh rate
• 50MP main (Samsung GN2, OIS + EIS)
• 64MP UltraWide (IMX 787)
• 48MP Telephoto camera with 5x optical zoom
• Time of Flight Sensor
• Thermometer sensor
Pixel 8:
• 6.17-inch 2400x1080 resolution; 427 PPI
• Flat OLED Display
• 120Hz Refresh rate
• 50MP main (Samsung GN2, OIS + EIS)
• 12MP UltraWide (IMX 386)
• Time of Flight Sensor
Other info:
• 9 cores Google Tensor G3 SoC
• Built on Samsung 4nm SF4P process
• Likely 10 cores Mali 715 GPU with Ray tracing
• Memory Tagging Extension to "prevent" memory based attacks
Normal Pixel 8 will also have 120Hz refresh rate
(10Hz, 30Hz, 60Hz, 90Hz, 120hz )
Pixel 8 Pro will have "smooth change" in Refresh rate from 60Hz to 120Hz .
For eg, Content at 24fps can now be shown at 72Hz.
• Staggered HDR support
• Faster shutter speed
• 8K at 30fps recording
• 11MP selfie camera on both Pixel 8/ 8 Pro
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Pixel 8 Pro:
• 6.7" 1344x2922 resolution; 490 PPI
• Flat OLED LTPO Display
• 120Hz Refresh rate
• 50MP main (Samsung GN2, OIS + EIS)
• 64MP UltraWide (IMX 787)
• 48MP Telephoto camera with 5x optical zoom
• Time of Flight Sensor
• Thermometer sensor
Pixel 8:
• 6.17-inch 2400x1080 resolution; 427 PPI
• Flat OLED Display
• 120Hz Refresh rate
• 50MP main (Samsung GN2, OIS + EIS)
• 12MP UltraWide (IMX 386)
• Time of Flight Sensor
Other info:
• 9 cores Google Tensor G3 SoC
• Built on Samsung 4nm SF4P process
• Likely 10 cores Mali 715 GPU with Ray tracing
• Memory Tagging Extension to "prevent" memory based attacks
Normal Pixel 8 will also have 120Hz refresh rate
(10Hz, 30Hz, 60Hz, 90Hz, 120hz )
Pixel 8 Pro will have "smooth change" in Refresh rate from 60Hz to 120Hz .
For eg, Content at 24fps can now be shown at 72Hz.
• Staggered HDR support
• Faster shutter speed
• 8K at 30fps recording
• 11MP selfie camera on both Pixel 8/ 8 Pro
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BREAKING NEWS: Realme, OnePlus, Oppo collect user data without their consent by enabling permissions by default
Chinese brands Oppo, Realme and OnePlus include a feature called "Enhanced Intelligent Services" which captures sensitive user data by default.
The feature claims to "optimize" the device by collecting device info, location, calendar events, app usage, unread SMS and miss calls stats.
It obtains location, "Internet", calendar events, SMS and call log permissions without the user's consent using a system app named Intelligent Services.
BBK should've asked during the device setup if you agree, but this was not included in the setup screen.
So this leads to the question, did BBK break Google's rules?
OEMs can set permissions for system apps but Android mandates that for certain permissions like location and internet user's consent is required
But BBK enabled "Location" and "Internet" permission automatically
Government of India has ordered a probe in this matter.
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Chinese brands Oppo, Realme and OnePlus include a feature called "Enhanced Intelligent Services" which captures sensitive user data by default.
The feature claims to "optimize" the device by collecting device info, location, calendar events, app usage, unread SMS and miss calls stats.
It obtains location, "Internet", calendar events, SMS and call log permissions without the user's consent using a system app named Intelligent Services.
BBK should've asked during the device setup if you agree, but this was not included in the setup screen.
So this leads to the question, did BBK break Google's rules?
OEMs can set permissions for system apps but Android mandates that for certain permissions like location and internet user's consent is required
But BBK enabled "Location" and "Internet" permission automatically
Government of India has ordered a probe in this matter.
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Carl Pei teased new Nothing Phone USB Type C cables
Nothing phone 2 will come with a new transparent look type C USB cable
Note: Nothing Phone 2 will as usual support USB Gen 2 only leading to slower speeds data transfer
Meanwhile upcoming iPhone 15 series will use Type C USB 3.2 and rival Google Pixels already uses the same for faster data transfer
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Nothing phone 2 will come with a new transparent look type C USB cable
Note: Nothing Phone 2 will as usual support USB Gen 2 only leading to slower speeds data transfer
Meanwhile upcoming iPhone 15 series will use Type C USB 3.2 and rival Google Pixels already uses the same for faster data transfer
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Samsung Galaxy Watch 6 series Prices Leaked
Galaxy Watch 6 (40mm)
Bluetooth: €320
4G: €370
44mm:
Bluetooth: €350
4G: €400
Galaxy Watch 6 Classic variant (43mm)
Bluetooth: €420
LTE: €470
47mm:
Bluetooth: €450
LTE: €500
These leaked prices are for France
Note: Samsung has now started giving DMCA notice to leakers for leaking official images before launch
So less Samsung leaks would emerge now
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Galaxy Watch 6 (40mm)
Bluetooth: €320
4G: €370
44mm:
Bluetooth: €350
4G: €400
Galaxy Watch 6 Classic variant (43mm)
Bluetooth: €420
LTE: €470
47mm:
Bluetooth: €450
LTE: €500
These leaked prices are for France
Note: Samsung has now started giving DMCA notice to leakers for leaking official images before launch
So less Samsung leaks would emerge now
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