Android

TL;DR

TL;DR

This issue affected 24 participants, including you. No one outside this group had access. The information that was exposed includes:

Phone makers need to collectively decide how we approach SIM cards going forward. The current state of eSIMs is an absolute mess, so we either need to ditch the idea of the eSIM-only future, or the big companies need to partner to solve this once and for all.

The Android team has long offered quality tiers for Wear OS and Large Screen apps. Google is now highlighting Android Widget Quality Tiers....

A few weeks ago, I explicitly disabled it everywhere I could find within account.google.com and I've not used anything gemini since. Now I get this email and find it enabled on my devices.

A recent measurement study by Prof. Doug Leith, Professor of Computer Systems in Trinity’s School of Computer Science and Statistics, shows that advertising and tracking cookies and other device and user identifiers are sent by Google servers and stored on a handset, even when no Google apps have ever been opened by the user.

I didn't make a mega thread for this launch. I didn't relize it was happening my bad.

ArcaneChat is a FLOSS private and secure messenger focused on privacy and friendly user experience.

We understand that the effort required to build and maintain widgets needs to be justified by user adoption, that’s why we’ve designed these key improvements, which are coming soon to Google Play on Android phones, tablets and foldables: - Dedicated Widgets Search Filter*: Users can now directly search for apps with widgets using a dedicated filter on Google Play. This means your apps/games with widgets will be easily identified, helping drive targeted downloads and engagement. - *New Widget Badges on App Detail Pages*: We’ve introduced a visual badge on your app’s detail pages to clearly indicate the presence of widgets. This eliminates guesswork for users and highlights your widget offerings, encouraging them to explore and utilize this capability. - *Curated Widgets Editorial Page: We're actively educating users on the value of widgets through a new editorial page. This curated space showcases collections of excellent widgets and promotes the apps that leverage them. This provides an additional channel for your widgets to gain visibility and reach a wider audience.

The pictures leaked by Winfuture.de come with very little information about their specs, so we’re left with what’s visible in the images for the most part. For starters, it looks like both Motorola phones will feature triple cameras. The 50-megapixel main camera on both will reportedly use Sony’s Lytia 900 sensor, which would be a nice improvement over the Lytia 700C sensor inside the previous models, Edge 50 and Edge 50 Pro.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25919791

For those unfamiliar, it's a fork of KISS launcher.

It is super thin at 4.21 mm unfolded but seems like they've downgraded the cameras quite significantly from last year (all three sensors are smaller, ultrawide is almost useless) which is a shame considering the price is in line with it's predecessor.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25822773

Too bad S25 base model still has only 25W charging support and a relatively short battery capacity of 4000mAh

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite promises big things for late 2024 and 2025 flagship smartphones. From a new custom CPU to unrivaled graphics performance, photography, and enhanced AI capabilities, it’s the chip that claims to do it all, and, for the most part, it does. However, our initial impressions of the chip have been tainted by exceedingly high temperatures when placed under stress.

So, I was lurking using sync for Lemmy and I came upon this post.