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Re: Android 10

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Post by techntoke »

grawprog wrote: post #72
B1FF_PSUVM wrote: post #66

"Contaminant detection: If moisture or debris is detected in your USB port, a notification will be sent to you and accessories will not function." "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that."

This new feature fills me with foreboding. I really miss the days phones came with covers for the USB ports. They were annoying as hell due to my lack of finger nails, but damn the port stayed spotless. Every phone I've had lately the usb port gets so full of dust and crap chargers stopped working properly unless I fucked around and balanced it just perfectly.

You can buy female dust covers on Amazon. I haven't really had issues. My biggest complaint was how susceptible USB micro was to breaking, but no problems with USB Type-C phones.

Re: Android 10

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Post by BlackLotus89 »

Some of the features sound amazing "sound amplifier" sounds like a hearing aid like function. If it has a low audio delay and good function set to filter noise it could be revolutionary. I was looking for something like this in app form not too long ago.

I wonder how gesture navigation will work with some apps.

I wonder which features will make it into aosp/lineageos. I'm missing android smartlock in limeageos. If I could wish for a feature for android it would be "game mode" from oxygenos.

Re: Android 10

#113

Post by mpalczewski »

skybrian wrote: post #94
mpalczewski wrote: post #80

I guess I'm not impressed. - Edit: not a bad release Live caption on device: Sounds great. Very useful if you are hearing impaired. If you just want captions for the words the are difficult to make out, some AI isn't going to help there. AI's are currently worse than I am at detecting words. Smart reply: This looks useful. Not having to lose info as you create an appointment or less clicks copying and pasting directi…

This is really quite cynical, particularly about sound amplifier. It should be very useful to the millions of people who are hearing impaired, but haven't gotten a hearing aid yet. (Most people tend to put this off for a while.) There's some irony that some folks might have gotten hearing loss from headphones in the first place, but it sounds like a useful feature.

It will be useful to me, but there's already a volume button. Would be nice if that just worked, instead of it being nerfed.

The volume limitations only made sense if you never used headphones less sensitive than the oem ones and listened to source audio that was only at maximum volume all the time.

Re: Android 10

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Post by kevin_thibedeau »

JoshTriplett wrote: post #64

The way they show and demonstrate gestures, along with the UI at the bottom, strongly suggests that they intend to eliminate the semi-"hard" buttons in favor of gestures. That would save space, give people a bit more control over fullscreen apps, and provide a less "modal" UI where the same gestures always work even if the buttons aren't available (such as when playing fullscreen video). Also, "Get security updates f…

9 already implements the swipeable "pill" navigation. It isn't on by default if you upgraded from 8.

Re: Android 10

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Post by Hamuko »

bsamuels wrote: post #29
gowld wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How does the pressure manifest?

as dumb as it sounds, nobody likes to be a green bubble

Must be an American problem. Never heard anyone outside of the US talk about the colour of the bubbles. Everyone uses Whatsapp here.

Re: Android 10

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Post by panpanna »

readams wrote: post #49
llampx wrote: post #8

Wow, the bar at the bottom is a rip-off of iOS

iOS navigation gestures are suspiciously similar to the gestures on the Palm Pre.

Actually it went something like this:

Palm -> meego -> xda mad scientists -> iOS -> Android

Given that Palm UI people now work for Android, this was bound to happen.

Re: Android 10

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Post by wyldfire »

gnusty_gnurc wrote: post #99
wyldfire wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Man, in my extended family SMS text group, this comes up once every couple weeks. One of us will note they aren't getting a random message, or someone will send a video and the quality will be crap, and the iPhone users will all mention how if we all had iPhones, this wouldn't be a problem. IMO a reasonable compromise is WhatsApp. Rich features like iMessage's but portable and lots of people already use it. I have…

Telegram is the best compromise imo

Yeah, Signal or Telegram might be a much better balance. But I don't want to be a salesman and try and push the technically superior choice on my friends and family. If I did, though, I would probably push one of those.

Re: Android 10

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Post by kevin_thibedeau »

readams wrote: post #34
rvz wrote: post #30

> With Android 10, you’re in control of your privacy. With privacy being the latest buzzword in the tech industry and all this news about privacy blunders I keep seeing, For Google to market something like this for Android makes you wonder what other nefarious features that have been added to Android that they didn't tell you about. In terms of privacy, Android 10 instead screams "Upgrade and lose control of your pri…

Actually there are a number of new privacy-enhancing features in this release. Probably the most prominent is that it will help you choose which apps should be able to get location information in the background. Google obviously has a tricky relationship with privacy, but as far as I know Android 10 is strictly better in that regard.

Better would be adopting the permissions controls that LineageOS provides.

Re: Android 10

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Post by JoshTriplett »

kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #115
JoshTriplett wrote: post #64

The way they show and demonstrate gestures, along with the UI at the bottom, strongly suggests that they intend to eliminate the semi-"hard" buttons in favor of gestures. That would save space, give people a bit more control over fullscreen apps, and provide a less "modal" UI where the same gestures always work even if the buttons aren't available (such as when playing fullscreen video). Also, "Get security updates f…

9 already implements the swipeable "pill" navigation. It isn't on by default if you upgraded from 8.

I use that today, yes; however, that only eliminates one of the three buttons. On Android 9, you still have a back button and a home button.
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