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What a lost opportunity to have an Android Quindim. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quindim
Or Qottab. It's not that there are no desserts with Q, but there are none that are as well-known and widely-used in the anglosphere as pies and marshmallows. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qottab
Android 12
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Re: Android 12
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As someone who used 132x65 pagers back then, my Blackberry RIM 850 can display more information in the screen than my Samsung Note 8. I loathe this "maximum white space!!" UIs as well. My boss prefers the grandparent-mode UIs whereas I prefer compact with every space is being used as possible. I like to have high-density texts like the old day of Reddit to minimum screen-scrolling.
Oh man, blackberry's where such perfect communication devices, fast writing no additional bs...i miss that time, it was the perfect mix of smart and dump phone...and nothing more was/is needed.
I'm no fan of the current whitespace-heavy UI paradigm, but to say BlackBerry did it better is definitely not matching my own memories of my BlackBerry devices at all.
Re: Android 12
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This is a serious problem that Google has not worked nearly hard enough. Sure, you can buy a Pixel if you want no bloatware and updates on the release day. But not having that for most OEMs is, among other things, a security problem.
> Sure, you can buy a Pixel if you want no bloatware and updates on the release day. Not really, I live in Croatia (EU member) and the product is not available in my country.
Re: Android 12
#55So if it’s released, why does my phone say there are no updates available… /s
This is a serious problem that Google has not worked nearly hard enough. Sure, you can buy a Pixel if you want no bloatware and updates on the release day. But not having that for most OEMs is, among other things, a security problem.
Re: Android 12
#56I see three total representations of time... I think? I think that's what I'm looking at on the left screenshot on the "Mon 4" widget? A clock face? One of them's normal (top bar), one (the clock face) looks way more "cutesy" and decorative than functional, so I guess if it's some customization and not standard, that's fine, but what's with the Lock Screen? Why print the time with unusual formatting on there? (I know…
sounds like a privacy thing
Re: Android 12
#57Anyone else just stopped keeping track of what version of Android their phone is on? I used to know this stuff, but these days couldn't care less.
Re: Android 12
#58Anyone else just stopped keeping track of what version of Android their phone is on? I used to know this stuff, but these days couldn't care less.
Re: Android 12
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For real. For me smartphones are just good enough. They all take nice pictures, they're all fast enough, they all have a nice screen, nice touch controls and nice UI. It just doesn't matter as much anymore. The only thing on here that made me go "oh cool" is the extra dim mode, my 4a really likes scorching my retinas at night.
The dictation looks really good. The main reason I don't use it currently, even though it would be the most natural way to enter text, is that I want my text to have punctuation without me having to be explicit about it. Looking forward to trying this eventually. Also, given that they have translation and live transcription of videos, live translation of videos was the next logical step. I hope it's available for all…
Re: Android 12
#60So if it’s released, why does my phone say there are no updates available… /s
This is a serious problem that Google has not worked nearly hard enough. Sure, you can buy a Pixel if you want no bloatware and updates on the release day. But not having that for most OEMs is, among other things, a security problem.
seriously, "adding value" has never once "added" any "value" for the end user. not once.