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danhakimi, to android in Mishaal Rahman: The Google Play Store is A/B testing a new "App FAQs" section that gives you AI-generated answers to frequently asked questions.

why?

casmael,

It’s the new grift - gotta throw ai into everything, just like how a couple years ago everyone and their dog had a something-coin and an nft.

philodendron, to android in Mishaal Rahman: The Tensor G3 is the first smartphone SoC to support hardware-accelerated AV1 encoding. It supports AV1 encoding at up to 4K60.

I hope this means Pixels will be able to compete with iPhone on camera video quality

GreenEngineering3475, to android in Mishaal Rahman: Google seems to be quietly rolling out a new security feature on Android: scanning for deceptive apps.
ObsidianZed, to android in Mishaal Rahman: Google is preparing to fully remove support for non-A/B updates from Android, leaving A/B updates as the only officially supported OTA update mechanism moving forward.

Isn’t that how iPhones update? I feel like I recall reading something similar a couple years back for iPhones.

biscuitswalrus, to android in Google may be planning to ship a major kernel upgrade to all its (Tensor-powered) pixel phones.

My long battery life performant phone running Android with kernel 4.14.116 would like an update but it was abandoned years ago. Which is a shame.

8gb ram 256gb storage and a locked Bootloader. Sad times

henfredemars,

I feel your pain. A past phone I had did have an unlockable bootloader but it needed service due to a manufacturing defect. The one they gave me as the replacement was a carrier version with a locked bootloader.

MigratingtoLemmy, to android in Mishaal Rahman: Google is preparing to fully remove support for non-A/B updates from Android, leaving A/B updates as the only officially supported OTA update mechanism moving forward.

Excellent job google.

helenslunch, to android in Mishaal Rahman: The Google Play Store is A/B testing a new feature that uses AI to generate "App Highlights".
@helenslunch@feddit.nl avatar

Most app descriptions are only a couple of sentences long in the first place…

nephs, to android in Mishaal Rahman: Google is preparing to fully remove support for non-A/B updates from Android, leaving A/B updates as the only officially supported OTA update mechanism moving forward.

What’s the difference?

southsamurai, to android in Mishaal Rahman: Google is preparing to fully remove support for non-A/B updates from Android, leaving A/B updates as the only officially supported OTA update mechanism moving forward.
@southsamurai@sh.itjust.works avatar

What’s the hidden gotcha though?

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