Not enough info. I live in a place with earthquakes, typhoons, volcanoes, and tsunamis so it might be worth it. I also like to take my motorbike to the middle of nowhere sometimes and don't currently have any other device to contact anyone.
Pretty stupid question since the cost is not stated, the reliability and coverage is unknown, and it might or might not require a high end phone. I don’t plan to buy a pixel 9 before they are old enough to be deeply discounted, at any rate. To put it in perspective, a Moto Defy is $150+$5/mo and I haven’t bought one of them. Anything I buy would have to be cheaper and at least as good.
This is presumably not a bad thing, as Google would most likely have benefited the most from this, especially as the so-called “privacy sandbox” that Google had planned as a replacement or server-side tracking are even more difficult to avoid. The “privacy sandbox” in particular would have been more of a competitive advantage for Google because, as the provider of Chrome, they are the only ones who have comprehensive access to aggregated user data that is collected directly via the browser.
When they killed Podcasts it was the last straw for me. It was an excellent app that did what it should with a good UI: the sort of app Google don’t make anymore.
I self hosted audiobookshelf and its 100x better. This then led me to self host everything else (Immich for Photos, Araa for Search, etc) and now I don’t use Google services at all.
I used to be all in on everything Google but you actually got useful apps and services for your data 10 years ago, now they harvest your data and give you shit in return, and shut down anything useful so you can’t rely on it.
In the PNW where lots of people spend time out in the mountains or desert miles away from anything and any service, normalizing satellite communication into regular smartphones would be excellent in an emergency. I know they have special satellite phones now but the costs are insanely expensive.
oh good, if this technology is on the horizon, I will continue to resist the urge to establish starlink service. I will wait until my android phone has this built in.
No way. Coverage on my carrier is solid everywhere I’ve been - even in the middle of a national park a couple of hours outside the city recently.
I like to get away, but I’m not the type to want to go to extremely remote places, hours from the nearest town in the middle of the desert or anything like that. So this is useless to me.
I’ll accept it if it’s free, otherwise you can keep it.
I think this depends on what flavour of android you have. I can’t answer your question, but if you provide the phone model and os version, it should help whoever comes along and can answer :)
Huh. That’s something I’ll never see, because I removed YouTube from all my devices, even blocked the website, because my addictive personality got stuck on Shorts and I developed mild depression. It’s been going up ever since.
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