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limerod ,

Its not an actual competitor considering you need both a samsung smartphone and the galaxy store app to acfuallactually download apps. The discounted apps are limited to samsung smartphones. Meanwhile, those brought on Playstore can be installed in any google play services compatible smartphone.

New Octo Android malware version impersonates NordVPN, Google Chrome (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

A new version of the Octo Android malware, called Octo2, has been detected spreading in Europe disguised as NordVPN, Google Chrome, and an app called Europe Enterprise. Octo2 has improved stability, evasion capabilities, and a new C2 domain system. The malware is not yet on Google Play, but its spread is expected to increase.

limerod ,

By downloading apps from 3rd party App stores and websites. If you only download your apps from trusted sources you should be fine.

limerod OP ,

TL;DR

  • YouTube is increasing subscription prices outside the US, affecting both individual and family plans.
  • The price hike differs per region, with some seeing changes between 30% to 50%.
  • If you’re impacted, it makes YouTube Premium more expensive than Spotify Premium and Apple Music.
limerod OP ,

YouTube Headquarters: ^^^^Coming ^^^^Soon

limerod OP ,

The recommendations are not the best but good enough. I usually get movie clips, repair clips, some animal clips and some tech ones.

limerod OP ,

TL;DR

Xiaomi has confirmed that the Redmi Note 14 Pro+ will feature the Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 SoC, making it the first phone with this chip. This new SoC promises improved performance and efficiency, including running games like Honor of Kings at 120 FPS.

The phone will also come with a large 6,200 mAh battery, though charging speed has been reduced to 90W from 120W in its predecessor. Additionally, the phone will have IP69 certification and Gorilla Glass Victus 2 for enhanced durability.

limerod OP ,

It won’t. Higher midrange redmi phones do not support sdcard. I too am in the same boat for phones. Getting a good flagship grade phone with a good processor, updates support and sdcard support is tough. Samsung comes close but misses the mark by some.

limerod ,

Yeah, $200 is like the price of a fully functioning entry level samsung A15/16 series smartphone which would get 5-6 years of updates! This is ridiculous. Being a niche brand and pulling these stunts is stupid.

limerod ,

If they could they would easily be No.1. Their hardware lasts years. But their software, nope…

limerod , (edited )

That was a problem in the old android 10 smartphones on some devices. Most smartphones except from xiaomi can use gestures with 3rd party launchers. Not allowing gestures with other launchers is on xiaomi.

The animations may be buggy and, there may be other bugs. But, it works in other brand smartphones.

limerod ,

The warning prompt for dangerous permissions is not fun either.

limerod ,

8 gen 1 was a 2022 chipset. The reason it’s not being compared to 8 gen 3 is because its not in the same league as the latest 8 gen Snapdragon.

limerod ,

Usually, the reason my phone restarts is due to using virtual RAM and having the phone under memory pressure. Disabling or reducing the virtual RAM made the phone snappy at the cost of increased App reloads. Choose the balance you like. The hardware is not strong enough for multi tasking anyway. Assuming it has RAM plus.

I’m speaking from experience of using galaxy A22 5g which had 6GB of RAM and 128GB of storage. But, this is still true on my realme smartphone with 12GB of RAM.

limerod ,

Here’s the ranking sorted from best to worst if you didn’t want to open the article.

  1. Google Pixel UI
  2. Samsung One UI
  3. Color OS (OPPO/OnePlus)
  4. Nothing OS
  5. Sony Xperia UI
  6. Moto My UX/Hello UI
  7. ASUS Zen UI
  8. vivo Fun Touch OS
  9. HONOR Magic OS
  10. Xiaomi MIUI/HyperOS
  11. Tecno HiOS
limerod OP ,

AI controlled music is legit a cool idea, just thumbs up or down the song it played to change it and show me new cool stuff.

Yeah.

Except Google.

Lol

limerod ,

People still use this app?

limerod ,

The last time I had tried some 4-5years I would hardly get any surveys. I figured it was s waste of time. So, uninstalled the app.

limerod ,

Can’t you use the website instead? Is the MCDonalds app necessary for orders? I use hermit to sandbox webapps for services which do not require a app.

limerod ,

According to the below two articles. It’s 1-5 meters in optimal conditions. And some of it may require additional hardware for tracking.

www.u-blox.com/en/…/bluetooth-indoor-positioning

www.inpixon.com/…/bluetooth-low-energy

limerod ,

That 2gb can make the difference between apps being reloaded or not. 6GB is the barely minimum if you use your phone more than just a phone. In a few years 8GB will be the new minimum.

limerod ,

This is the correct answer. I made a 1.5 minute long phone call. Before recording, the phone app used 152mb of storage space. But, after call recording it increased to 154mb.

Pixel 9 raises the bar for fast charging, should apply to other Android phones too (9to5google.com)

The Pixel 9 series has way better battery life, but it also delivers improvements to charging. One of those improvements is that the Pixel 9 has higher requirements for fast charging, helping you better know if your charger is truly up to speed.

limerod ,

Super fast charging damaging your batteries hasn’t been true for a while. Charging standards like supervooc push the heat to the charger and charge two battery cells simultaneously. This reduces heat generation significantly than if you were to charge traditionally. My 15w samsung smartphone generates much more heat while charging compared to my 67w realme smartphone which stays cooler even while charging at quadruple of speeds.

Other smartphones slow the charging rate when the display is on. Phones which support supervooc can charge your phone at the same speed regardless of display being on or off.

My phone also has a smart charging feature where it can slow charge the battery at night & limit it to 80%. In the morning just before I remove the phone from the charger it will finish charging to 100%.

limerod ,

I quite enjoyed reading their in-depth tech coverage. Especially, in the early days when theyvcovered smartphones. There won’t be a 2nd anandtech in history for a long time to come.

They should release their articles as a torrent to conserve the long history of anandtech.

limerod OP ,

TL;DR

  • Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 users are reporting paint peeling issues just weeks after the phone’s release.
  • Samsung attributes the problem to third-party chargers causing leakage currents, advising users to stick with official Samsung chargers.
  • The explanation has drawn comparisons to Apple’s infamous “you’re holding it wrong” moment.
limerod OP ,

This wouldn’t have been an issue if samsung provided a charger in the box. Which they don’t. And now, push the blame to 3rd party chargers.

limerod OP ,

Spotify has to support the DTI for it to work. Considering, Spotify’s business model. I doubt they would support.

limerod ,

Yeah, I noticed this yesterday when I saw 3 apps being downloaded and updated simultaneously.

One downside I noticed was play store became too slow to do anything else and super glitchy – like pressing the update details button didn’t do anything. The animation was slowed down and I couldn’t load anything else in a jiffy.

When it finally started to accept user inputs pressing back it was existing the updates page and still being on the updates page. Apparently, it opened the updates view multiple times I had to close the play store app and re-open to fix the issue.

So, while it can do simultaneously updates its not glitch free and has bugs in general.

limerod ,

It’s cheap for a reason. Samsung’s equivalent smartphone are more going to be more expensive in comparison.

limerod ,

In the context of LLM its not. Multitasking and performance would suffer for these use cases.

limerod ,

You could get the moondrop if it’s available in your region.

limerod ,

16GB ram is only available on the top end models of high end smartphones. Regular Instagram, Facebook users are not buying those Smartphones.

limerod , (edited )

As someone who did not. What is it referencing here?

Edit: Thanks for the replies. The video was funny, lol.

limerod ,

16GB of RAM sounded too good to be true. Granted 13GB is nothing for sneeze at still. Hopefully, they can provide an option to toggle it off. Sounds wasteful for people who would use it once a while.

limerod ,

Just getting the 3GB of RAM used is not the issue. There are apps which can use even more. The issue is its reserved meaning its not available to your other apps.

An option to remove the lock while still being able to utilize the RAM (should the need arise) and AI features should be provided for flexibility should one desire.

limerod OP ,

So here’s what went down. We tested the water resistance, first in terms of immersion and then its ability to withstand water pressure. Then, we put it in a washing machine to verify a claim by Honor that it can survive something like this with no issue. Turns out, it was true. Sadly we didn’t have a hydraulic press handy to verify the other in-house test by the marker.

We then froze the Magic V3 inside a block of ice, to test its ability to withstand temperature extremes. The phone passed all of these tests with flying colors. We tried to scratch the folding screen’s applied plastic protector, and, well it did scratch, very easily, with fingernails only. It was just the replaceable protector, though, so not as bad as it sounds.

The Magic V3’s hinge probably got the worst treatment. We made it carry a 5kg weight, and it didn’t budge. We then used the phone as a hammer, denting it a little bit - but not impacting the normal operation. And finally we did some drop tests and we’re not going to spoil these for you - make sure you watch the video until the end to see the results.

limerod OP ,

I would not buy a smart ring. But, if I was and it supported QI2. It should support the Magnet Power Profile to even be worth mentioning.

limerod ,

Your whole existence revolves around peddling ads before people can watch the ads they want.

Ah, what. Who wants or likes to watch ads at all?

limerod ,

That was almost a decade ago or even before. I remember adockers recommending white listing search engines or recommending to disable non-instrusive ads to support websites.

limerod OP ,

Yeah, but I wasn’t aware about this. I assumed they would be slightly hard to repair but not throw in the bin hard to repair.

limerod OP , (edited )

Yeah, why not. You can see the price list for screens on samsung au website here: samsung.com/…/galaxy-watch-screen-replacement-pri… Other regions should have similar prices

limerod OP ,

Lol

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