How should countries deal with falling birth rates? (www.bbc.co.uk)
Beeper ready to wave white flag if its latest iMessage fix gets shut down (www.androidauthority.com)
ASUS now actively sabotaging attempts to unlock Zenfone 9 bootloader (xdaforums.com)
Is Ernest still here? (kbin.social)
I don't mind waiting for things to be fixed what with life interfering with things, but I can't find any activity from Ernest lately. He hasn't been, like... hit by a bus or anything terrible like that, has he?
Google's inconsistent Pixel experience makes its phones impossible to recommend (www.androidpolice.com)
We typically like Pixel phones a lot, but we have some reservations about Google’s quality control
Holy shit Android 14 is really bad
No combined notification+ringer volume control? No non-dismissable notifications? No disabling of the bottom search bar? fair point this is launcher issue What the fuck is that shit?!
Android 15 can automatically delete your face or fingerprint unlock if they aren't working well (www.androidauthority.com)
TL;DR...
Dual headphone jack smartphone scores high in new reparability video (www.notebookcheck.net)
Free VPN apps on Google Play turned Android phones into proxies (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Microplastics found in every human semen sample tested in study (www.theguardian.com)
This Review is Going to Make Me Very Unpopular [Fairphone 5] (www.youtube.com)
Lenovo bets its Motorola smartphone brand will be the third-biggest globally in 3 years (www.cnbc.com)
Interested in Hardware Features we want to see
My first Android phone was the HTC One M8. I got it because at the time it made my iPhone 5 look like a chump. Bigger screen, unrivaled stereo front speakers, much more internal storage you name it....
Bitwarden's app is about to get a lot prettier (www.androidpolice.com)
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....
Unitree's new G1 humanoid robot is priced at only $16,000, and looks like the type of humanoid robot that could sell in the tens of millions. (newatlas.com)
A page to gather interest in a small Android phone (smallandroidphone.com)
Samsung is no longer the world’s biggest smartphone maker, Apple is (www.androidpolice.com)
Last time I accidentally made a credible water-post. To compensate here's an extremely noncredible water-post (sh.itjust.works)
A case for preemptively defederating with Threads (kbin.social)
With Meta beginning to test federation, there's a lot of discussion as to whether we should preemptively defederate with Threads. I made a post about the question, and it seems that opinions differ a lot among people on Kbin. There were a lot of arguments for and against regarding ads, privacy, and content quality, but I don't...
Ernest needs to quickly delegate or this instance will quickly die (kbin.social)
I appreciate that earnest made a post yesterday, or maybe it was the day before, saying that he is not dead and hasn't given up on kbin. It's not on this magazine, so I'm not sure where it was since this seems to be the most appropriate one, but in any case....
What to put on new phone? (feddit.uk)
Yes this is partly to show off I got a new phone because I’m so fucking happy to be rid of my water damaged Samsung!...
Changes we’re making to Google Assistant (blog.google)
Looks like a bunch of features are being removed due to “underutilization”
I'm starting to see some serious downsides to being able to see who downvotes you. (kbin.social)
A few days ago I downvoted someone's comment, and the next day I happened to notice every single comment I've ever made had at least one downvote. All from the person I dared to downvote the ONE time. I straight up asked why they did it, and they seem to think I'm an "obvious" troll account that "apparently just exist to...
Exclusive: Sony Xperia 1 VI leaked – Improved Telephoto, Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, and more -mspoweruser (mspoweruser.com)
It looks like the improved tele on the Xperia finally.
