Plex's Winamp-inspired music player Plexamp is now free | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Well this is cool. Now time for me to a media server again.
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Chrome finally lets you move the address bar to the bottom, but not on Android (www.androidcentral.com)
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Why the Pixel 8's Face Unlock upgrade is a big deal (www.androidcentral.com)
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Google Keep for Android is getting some overdue upgrades - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
Google’s excellent and neglected note-taking app is getting some much-needed formatting options and overall love. Here’s hoping it’s not the last time.
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Samsung’s emoji are bad - 9to5google (9to5google.com)
Yeah they aren’t great. But at least we have the blob using emoji kitchen.
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Fairphone 3 gets seven years of updates, besting every other Android OEM (arstechnica.com)
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Tested: Google's Pixel 9 Pro models only have 13GB RAM for apps (www.androidauthority.com)
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Google removes photo sphere mode from the new Pixel (www.androidauthority.com)
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Android Police: Build your communities elsewhere now that most Reddit third-party clients are dead (www.androidpolice.com)
Screenshots of Boost for Lemmy included.
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Fairphone 5 Review: Hopeful Innovation? (www.nextpit.com)
The review is a bit late, but it’s fairly detailed and informative.
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Google could give the Pixel 8 seven years of updates (www.androidpolice.com)
cross-posted from !googlepixel
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Google Messages prepares a feature that will do your ears a favor - (www.androidauthority.com)
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Pixel 9 Pro Euro Prices Leak - Should We Worry? (www.droid-life.com)
Samsung wanted this to be their week, and it still mostly is with the launch of the Fold 6, Flip 6, and the Galaxy Watch Ultra. However, Google’s upcoming Pixel 9 launch is incredibly close, so the leaks for it are only going to ramp up. Today, a fresh report is here to keep things moving toward that mid-August Pixel 9 event....
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Lenovo bets its Motorola smartphone brand will be the third-biggest globally in 3 years (www.cnbc.com)
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Sync for Lemmy is available in the Play Store for pre-registration (play.google.com)
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Android 15 can automatically delete your face or fingerprint unlock if they aren't working well (www.androidauthority.com)
TL;DR...
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Dual headphone jack smartphone scores high in new reparability video (www.notebookcheck.net)
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Free VPN apps on Google Play turned Android phones into proxies (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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[Android][App] Obtainium. Get Android App Updates Directly From the Source. (lemm.ee)
Awesome app. It is somehow not listed on android-foss list so maybe someone didn’t know about it....
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Beeper adds support for Google Messages RCS alongside iMessage, works on Android and iPhone (9to5google.com)
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Google Play Store rolling out simultaneous Android app downloads (9to5google.com)
Finally all that power won’t be wasted waiting for a single app download to finish and install....
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Google Now was the better phone assistant, no AI or LLMs needed (9to5google.com)
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The Nvidia Shield TV still holds up four years later, but it’s due for a refresh (9to5google.com)
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Exclusive: Google Pixel Watch 2 to feature UWB, new chipset, and more - android authority (www.androidauthority.com)
Use the snapdragon w5 gen 1, no more tensor on the wearables for now.
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