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Re: Android 10

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Post by rkagerer »

garysahota93 wrote: post #23

As a recent iOS user coming from Android, this almost makes me want to go back. I really do miss the Smart Reply and native Google Assistant features. But alas, iMessage pressure is real in my friend's group.

That's ironic, this page makes me want to switch to iOS for my next phone.

Aside from the annoyingness of the page... Too many things here are patched on top what ought to be core. Eg. Pausing annoying apps. IMO apps ought to default to off in the first place until you turn them on.

Very little detail about these new privacy controls. Sounds like Google-centric lipstick.

Dark theme is exciting; embarrassing it took so long.

Hopefully I'm proven wrong...

Re: Android 10

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Post by wuliwong »

JohnFen wrote: post #140
garysahota93 wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've had a few friends passive aggressively mention I am the reason our group chat is MMS vs iMessage. Or even worse: I just simply got excluded from group chats. That was the saddest one because when hanging out in person, a friend will mention a conversation from the group chat and I wouldn't know what's going on and they would just awkwardly pretend it didn't happen. Or say they'd add me to the group and never act…

> the social pressure (in the US at least) is insane. This isn't a US-wide thing. This is about the priorities of a certain subculture, nothing more. Your friends just happen to be embedded in that subculture. My condolences.

The subculture of people who have iPhones? As much as Apple would want this to be, I don't believe there is a cohesive subculture that describes all iPhone users.

Re: Android 10

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Post by elbrian »

camone wrote: post #83
garysahota93 wrote: post #23

As a recent iOS user coming from Android, this almost makes me want to go back. I really do miss the Smart Reply and native Google Assistant features. But alas, iMessage pressure is real in my friend's group.

Also as a recent iOS user, I don't understand why. Other than live captions, sound amp and family link, most new features have been on iOS for a while, and will actually improve on iOS 13 (e.g. apps have to ask for location access each time, besides the current 3 options). Seems like they're trying to catch up to iOS.

What is difficult to understand about OP wanting features that iOS does not offer?

Re: Android 10

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Post by jquery »

dochtman wrote: post #153
gnusty_gnurc wrote: post #99

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Telegram is the best compromise imo

Please stop advocating for Telegram: https://gizmodo.com/why-you-should-stop-using-telegram-right... https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/987372998935105539 Signal is definitely the more secure choice, but Whatsapp is still king of the network effect at least in my neck of the woods.

That Gizmodo article is 3 years old, is it still true?

Re: Android 10

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Post by vesinisa »

trulyrandom wrote: post #160

Factory images are also available now for Pixel devices: https://developers.google.com/android/images .

It seemed to come to my German Pixel 1 as an over-the-air update straight away as well, currently downloading it. Nice job, Google!

Re: Android 10

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Post by flavor8 »

JohnFen wrote: post #152
Dunedan wrote: post #130

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> 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. Yes, that's the case. When you're using gesture navigation the only visible UI left is the horizontal bar at them bottom. Apps adjusted for gesture navigation will also draw behind that line. Gesture navigation is still an option which might not b…

> once you're used to it, you don't want to go back. Your mileage may vary. I've never learned to get along well with gestures, although I did give them a solid try.

Try smart launcher, and set up your own gestures. I haven't been a fan of gestures either historically, but smart launcher has converted me. Single finger up / down / left / right; double finger up / down / left / right; double tap on screen, and a couple of others.

Re: Android 10

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Post by kec »

Someone1234 wrote: post #68
readams wrote: post #36

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Note that "true black" saves almost no additional power on an OLED vs a dark grey.

Indeed. But it does look nicer/work better for what black themes are actually good at: Using at night. So while the additional battery savings between "true black" and grey are within the margin of error, the battery benefits remain for both and the non-battery benefits remain for our eyes.

True black looks nicer in the same way that oversaturated TVs look "nicer" in the showroom: it's great for grabbing your attention, but a pretty crap experience in the long run.

White on True black UI has way too much contrast and is much more fatiguing than white on dark gray.

Re: Android 10

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Post by [deleted] »

muddi900 wrote: post #135
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…

>Also, "Get security updates faster." is huge; this is effectively saying "no matter who makes your phone, you still get updates". I have been hearing this for years.

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Re: Android 10

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Post by pjmlp »

ant6n wrote: post #156
izacus wrote: post #50

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Most of them are choice of the OEMs - e.g. Samsung held back Digital Wellbeing on their S9 phone updates so it could market their own reimplementation on S10 series. Everything marketed here is available to all OEMs - Pixel specific features are marketed on Pixel marketing pages.

... We're getting more and more into an age where mobile hardware doesn't matter anymore, because it's become so fungible. And Samsung will do very badly, because they're hardware is good, but their software sucks so bad.

Regular consumers appear to have other opinion about bare bones AOSP UI.

I find it quite ugly from design point of view, loaded with an amount of blinding white colour.

Re: Android 10

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Post by CodeGlitch »

vladdanilov wrote: post #138

The website assets are optimized in a rather strange way. The total page weight of ~20MB is huge for mobile. The images are heavily compressed using WebP lossy with quite noticeable blockiness and washed out textures and fine details, but squeezed into 1MB, yet the videos are only lightly compressed, and make up most of the page weight. Had they been compressed with libx264 at good quality, the page weight would be m…

Yes the site crashed my (old) Android phone running Firefox.

First time this has ever happened since I've owned the device... Which is many years!

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