Samsung loses top spot as the world's biggest smartphone maker after 12 years (www.hardwarezone.com.sg)
Fossil may have given up on Wear OS watches, ceded victory to Google and Samsung (www.androidpolice.com)
Fairphone Keep Club: Sustainable Consumerism? (forum.fairphone.com)
As you may well know, Fairphone is a company that originally arose from a kickstarter campaign and makes phones that are as easily repairable, as sustainable and as fairly sourced as possible. They do have their issues, but compared to other big phone companies they’ve done a great job with this....
The Epic Games Store is launching its iOS and Android versions later this year (alternativeto.net)
Sony Xperia 5 V review (www.gsmarena.com)
Android 14 Beta 5 is live (android-developers.googleblog.com)
I hope it’s ok to post this here. The Androidbeta community doesn’t seem to have much activity, and while i don’t miss Reddit that much, I’m a bit sad there’s not much beta news over here…
Goodbye, Good Reddit Apps (www.droid-life.com)
Obligatory fuck /u/spez. 🖕
Sync for Lemmy signup is now open! (syncapps.io)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/803492...
Google Maps is not adding pop-up ads during navigation [U] (9to5google.com)
A Google spokesperson explains:...
FCC proposes 60-day unlocking rule for all mobile phones (www.androidauthority.com)
LineageOS 21 now officially supports Chromecast with Google TV (4K) (9to5google.com)
Google Play Store quietly rolls out feature to uninstall apps remotely (www.androidauthority.com)
Google appears to have quietly rolled out a feature to the Play Store that allows users to remotely uninstall apps from other devices.
Android's new anti-theft features (blog.google)
The Pixel Tablet is actually just a few spare parts in a half-empty body [article headline] (arstechnica.com)
I am not sure where I land on this issue, I am not entirely sold that it should have been filled to the brim and packed tightly but it does seem like they could have done better either for repairability or at least having things like a headphone jack and maybe better speakers (I have read that speakers can do better with more...
Google delays launch of Find My Device network and trackers, benefiting Apple (9to5google.com)
Google set to purge the Play Store of low-quality apps (www.androidauthority.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/17702667...
QUIK SMS: Open source replacement to the stock SMS app on Android. A fork for revival of the now unmaintained QKSMS. (f-droid.org)
Other alternatives:...
Google is investigating Android 14’s multiple profile update bug (www.theverge.com)
The Pokémon Sleep app is here to gamify your sleeping habits (www.talkandroid.com)
If you’ve immersed yourself in to the world of Pokémon you’ll be excited to find out that you can add another level to your obsession thanks to the debut of the Pokémon Sleep app on the Play Store. Ostensibly aiming to help you get a better sleep routine, the Pokémon Sleep app will track your sleeping habits via your...
Google can keep your phone if you send it in for repair with non-OEM parts (www.androidauthority.com)
In its services and repair terms and conditions, Google says it will keep devices sent in for repair if they have a non-OEM part....
Google to add emoji reactions to its Android Gmail app (and how to enable them) (9to5google.com)
They’re intended to work and look like your usual Discord or similar emoji reactions, as long as it’s between Gmail users:...
ASUS is apparently killing the ability to root present and future Zenfones (www.androidauthority.com)
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/3429727...