Samsung Galaxy A55: News, leaks, rumored price, and release window (www.androidpolice.com)
F-Droid 1.19.0 brings automatic background updates and a new and better workflow for adding repositories. (floss.social)
Google launches Android 15 Developer Preview for Pixel (9to5google.com)
Edit Official announcement link …googleblog.com/…/first-developer-preview-android…
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The Gemini Android app is already available in more regions, including Europe and Asia (www.androidauthority.com)
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LocalSend - Share files to nearby devices (localsend.org)
If you want a easy, reliable and cross-platform way to share files between computers, phones, etc, it may be of your interest.
Fossify Music Player 1.0.0 released (github.com)
cross-posted from: reddrefuge.com/post/189022...
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Gemini is now out (www.theverge.com)
Personally, I don’t like it as an Assistant replacement: it can’t do routines among other issues.
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Google Maps on Android finally picked up a weather feature from the iOS version. (www.theverge.com)
Screenshot from The Verge:...
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Circle to Search will be exclusive to Google and Samsung devices for a long time - GSMArena.com news (www.gsmarena.com)
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Android Auto more widely rolling out 3D buildings in Google Maps, enabled by default (9to5google.com)
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"RutheniumOS" is a scam (discuss.grapheneos.org)
RutheniumOS is a fork of GrapheneOS with very broad claims and also accusations toward GrapheneOS....
Signal usage survey, what versions do you use? Wanted for potential Flatpak adoption - Feddit (feddit.de)
Android 15 prepares to let you share media audio to nearby devices (www.androidauthority.com)
tl;dr from the article:...
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One UI 6.1 disables one of Android's best notification features by default (www.androidpolice.com)
tl;dr: Notification channels, which were introduced with Android 8, are now disabled by default and one has now to enable them manually (screenshots below by Android Police):...
Samsung signs multi-year deal with Qualcomm for Snapdragon chips (www.sammobile.com)
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Nothing Phone 1 receives Android 14 update with Nothing OS 2.5 (www.androidauthority.com)
tl;dr from the article:...
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Samsung loses top spot as the world's biggest smartphone maker after 12 years (www.hardwarezone.com.sg)
Chromecast with Google TV is now serving full-screen, auto-playing Chicken Tender Wrap ads (www.androidauthority.com)
Reddit users thevincentasteroid and MMD3_ posted about an auto-playing video ad (with sound) on the home screen. The ad is for Chicken Tender Wraps from Carl’s Jr. When it begins auto-playing, it pushes all the other UI elements out of focus and goes almost full-screen, returning to the home screen after it has played through...
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Google Messages RCS Chat colors (thespandroid.blogspot.com)
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Synthing: sync files between Android profiles locally (feddit.de)
Android now lets you transfer eSIMs between your phones (www.androidpolice.com)
Google Pixel phones unusable after January 2024 system update (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
What do you want from a Pixel Watch 3? (9to5google.com)
Google is reportedly working on two sizes for the Pixel Watch 3 to address complaints about the small screen....
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Official list of Motorola smartphones getting Android 14 (www.gsmarena.com)
Quoting the list here for convenience:...
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