Gemini is terrible. It gets so many things wrong, and is wrapped in all sorts of DEI bullshit.

USB-C and Lightning both act as headphone jacks.

It will require design changes, but there are already plenty of options to make it happen.

Nah, there’s basically no design changes needed. Pretty much everyone already complies with the new EU laws. People seem to think the new laws mean you’ll just be unclipping the back of your phone and chucking a new battery in like in the nokia days lol. All it means is that you won’t need proprietary tools to open your phone. You’ll still need to disassemble the phone as usual. Basically nothing changes for the big OEMs already. It’s not going to make replacing your battery on your own any easier.

You’re not going to be able to do that lol. The only thing that’s changing is that you will only require tools that the average person wanting to do the job will already have in order to take your phone apart. No proprietary screws etc. The EU law basically changed nothing of any real meaning.

I mean it has a big bright icon that pops up, that’s no different to your suggestion. Text simply being there too isn’t any worse.

The entire point of speed cameras is to reduce speeding, not to raise revenue. Waze reduces speeding.

You do know that the entire point of waze is to give you alerts to things like crashes and roadworks etc, right? Right?

However, Waze says that to minimize distractions, it won’t show these alerts on regularly traveled roads and will limit alerts on unfamiliar roads to prevent driver overload.

It’s a folding phone that looks to have the absolute best hardware of all the folding phones, and a very very smart big screen OS. That price seems fine compared to the other foldables? Reviews say it’s great too.

4/5 stars

The OnePlus Open brings what might be the best hardware on a foldable phone and enough clever software tricks to turn heads. It pairs top-end internals with some of OPPO’s careful trial-and-error to create a debut foldable phone that hardly feels like a first attempt. Add in a competitive asking price, and the OnePlus Open just might give other foldables a run for their money.

Not when the features only come to apps on pixels and nothing else.

What do you think about this latest release?

Like the last few releases, it’s mostly a nothing release since Google put all their effort into pixel exclusive features now. I absolutely detest the current UI and how locked down the whole thing is becoming.

Do you think things are going in the right direction

Definitely not. Google are trying to make the pixels into iPhones, and they’re basically ignoring AOSP.

Is there anything you’d like to see prioritized in future releases

Customisation, especially of the UI. Let us change the size of the quick settings tiles for example so we can make them smaller like they used to be to have more of them.

Which device are you on?

I use an iPhone as my daily phone but I have a S21 Ultra and a Pixel 6 Pro that I use too.

Well they could definitely drop the updates in that time, that’s why people are concerned.

Is stopping Android development not killing it?

No, because AOSP is open source. Samsung for example has been doing far more for android development than Google have.

What would it take for you to consider Google to have killed android?

Google can’t really kill Android because it’s open source and every OEM has their own fork of it.

No? Not sure how you got that from what I posted lol.

Google aren’t going to kill android. I never said that. What they’re going to do is make a new OS for their mobiles and devices and stop android development. As I pointed out, they’ve already begun this with fuchsia and by not adding 90% of their new OS features to AOSP. They don’t want their OS to be open source anymore, that was just how they would capture the market they wanted.

The last few Android OS versions outside of pixels have just been essentially UI and security updates. Virtually no new features. Everything is pixel exclusive. This is their way of weaning off Android into their new closed source OS. They’ve already updated all of their Google home hubs to fuchsia.

Their pixel exclusive features absolutely do not require the tensor SOC. They would work on any flagship chip.

The source is Google want to be Apple with respect to phones. They crave that locked down closed source OS where everyone is beholden to them. They don’t like that their product is used against them by their competitors who often do it better. They’ll drop android development in the relatively near future 100%, when they have their closed source replacement.

Google will absolutely be stopping Android development in the relatively near future. They’re already making almost all the new features pixel exclusive, never making their way to AOSP.

Google discontinue a lot more than almost anyone else though. It’s a meme at this point how often they kill things off. Does a website like this exist for any other company?

https://killedbygoogle.com/

Didn’t they only just announce like last year that they’d signed a deal to use snapdragon SoCs for the next 5 years or so for flagships worldwide while they start work on their revamp of Exynos? To only go 1 year of snapdragon would be odd.

Hopefully this new exynos is great, as snapdragon being the only good option is not good for the industry.

You have an odd definition of permanent. I guess the screen is permanently glued down too?

Jerryrigeverything takes the battery out on these phones easily. People already replace the batteries in them. How is that possible if they’re permanently glued in?