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Carpet posted:Has anybody else got the Pixel 7a? Yes, had it since launch more or less. It's great. I was impressed looking at the Zenphone 10 that was mentioned earlier in the thread, but really the reason you get the Pixel line is you KNOW the software and software support is going to be solid. Which, since the hardware has flattened so much, is the main thing to care about these days it seems. Maybe foldables becoming truly mainstream will change that and hardware will again matter.
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Bright Bart posted:Thank you for helping brainstorm, everyone! Where do you swipe left from? Just anywhere on the call popup (that's not the accept/decline sliders)?
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Carpet posted:I've been using my new 7a for a week now, and while not having to worry about charging the battery three times a day is great, yeah the in-screen fingerprint sensor is dogshit compared to my 3a's rear one. I reckon it works 1/4 of the time, and I'm not totally certain that the one time it works it's actually using face unlock instead. Typically it should get better as it learns your print. I've gotten used to holding my thumb there until it unlocks or fails, no quick taps like with my old back-of-phone reader. It has a solid hit rate once you get used to it I'd say. The biggest Achilles heel seems to be being outside with bright light. In that case I just pinpad it, although maybe covering the screen from the sunlight with my other hand would help?
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Oct 3, 2023 04:32
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bull3964 posted:Google has also said that on top of the 7 years of updates, they are committing to keep iFixit supplied with parts for 7 years. That's really really good wow. They are making some major moves at changing the whole "Androids don't keep their value as well as iPhones" thing.
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Oct 5, 2023 23:22
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butt dickus posted:the hole punch still bugs me but it's not a line that goes through the middle of the screen. screen protectors bug me, too, which is why i choose not to drop my phone instead of using one and feeling that awful ridge Good screen protectors go virtually to the edge of the screen and, especially the glass ones, are indistinguishable from the feel of the native screen underneath.
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Oct 17, 2023 17:23
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Alarbus posted:This is why I use a cheap iphone as a work phone! Nothing work related on the personal phone so that when someone fucks up it doesn't wreck my stuff. I hope this is on the company dime, because gently caress providing your own phone for workstuff.
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WattsvilleBlues posted:Additional: My Pixel 8 hasn't crashed since I got the November update last week, I'm hoping that's a good sign. Ive had a Pixel 7A since launch a OnePlus 5T since launch before that (5 or so years), don't think I've had a single crash that entire stretch. Android seems to be pretty stable in general from my POV
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Nov 15, 2023 04:53
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Branch Nvidian posted:RCS messages on iOS will absolutely continue to be green, and even with the tech deficit gone the damage has already been done. The weird social pressure won't go away, kids (and adults sadly) will continue to get bullied over it. Apple is only doing this to try to stave off the EU forcing iMessage to be open, but they've already won the cultural perception war so very little will actually change regarding how the average person sees blue versus green bubbles. Humans are so weird
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Nov 17, 2023 08:28
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Just turn your adblockers off or get YouTube premium. I don't understand how 5-10 seconds of ads is such an impossible price to pay for all the amazing, often "grassroots" content on YouTube. Expecting all of that for $0 is just pure entitlement to me. And in general across the web, it's not the 00's anymore, ads are much more well behaved now in general. The sites with the truly cancerous ads are the sites you don't want to visit anyway. Try going a week without an adblocker, it will be fine, I promise.
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Nov 21, 2023 19:04
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butt dickus posted:lol "it's not worth 50 cents a day but it's worth complaining about" lmao yeah he doesn't even hear himself
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Nov 21, 2023 19:47
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AlexDeGruven posted:And your understanding of the current ad climate is woefully inadequate. Ad networks continue to be attack vectors, and also tend to STILL be really loving annoying, taking up bandwidth and overall making GBS threads up the entire experience. Yes, and TV ads can be annoying and obnoxious too. But that is the price you are paying to consume the content, which was produced by other humans, and does not fall out of the air. Otherwise you are effectively stealing the content, or stealing the use of the content, to be pedantic. I'm not saying I'm some perfect saint, I still  on occasion if media is very difficult to find through legitimate means. But to have "I never want to see an ad on this content I pay literally nothing for!" as a policy is utterly bewildering and like I said, entitled, to me.Ok that's my last post on this derail please don't probe me
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Chikimiki posted:Just got a Pixel 7a for cheap through Cyber Monday. Any recommended cases? Spigen strikes a good balance between protection and bulk IMO. I don't fear at all dropping my phone on hard surfaces but also can still slip my phone into most every (men's clothing) pocket I have.
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Nov 27, 2023 20:39
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Skarsnik posted:Unless you need to switch to a different card theres no need to open the wallet app to pay holy poo poo gently caress me this explains why I get so many failed payments as I fumble to open the app...
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Scam Likely posted:Just got a Pixel Fold and it's pretty sweet. Coming from a Galaxy S22 it's been taking some getting used to, but I really have been enjoying it. use Gallery Go by Google (also known simply as "Gallery")
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Nov 29, 2023 19:22
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Mental Hospitality posted:I've also adopted an 80's/90's Sony Sports Walkman aesthetic. Glorious.
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Dec 3, 2023 05:39
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teethgrinder posted:I'm ... embarrassed. I thought my USB-C port was broken for half a year, after I put my weight on the connection when the phone was charging in my bed. Turns out it was actually ...just packed densely with pocket lint. How did you get it out?
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Uthor posted:Just got a Pixel 7a and within minutes realized how I'm so used to swiping down on the fingerprint reader on the back of my Pixel 4a to see my notifications. I didn't even think about how I do that. Let's see how long not being able to do this annoys me... Haha same with me but I came from a OnePlus 5T. It gets better, hang in there.
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Feb 17, 2024 03:06
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Resdfru posted:I just swipe down from anywhere on screen to see notifications and up from anywhere on screen to open app drawer. Is that a android thing or a Samsung thing? https://www.samsung.com/ae/support/mobile-devices/opening-the-notification-panel-by-swiping-anywhere-on-the-screen/ That's a homescreen thing, but it's nice to be able to do it from anywhere (even in other apps), without needing to reach your thumb to the top of the phone.
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Capitalizing the first word of the sentence is like an extension of the period. It helps delineate sentences from each other at a glance. It's so regular and predictable that auto-capitalization has existed... forever? Without it, blocks of text begin looking more like walls of text. To deliberately turn it off to appear more hip is... interesting. That said people who use full punctuation in texting will forever weird me out and probably deserve Punishment.
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Feb 18, 2024 16:47
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Uthor posted:With SwiftKey, putting in a punctuation autocompletes the word and adds a space. Using punctuation is faster for me! What I mean is texting like this: code:
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Feb 18, 2024 19:51
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I haven't tried eSIMs yet but I introduced my frequently-out-of-country parents to Airalo after hearing about it here and they love it.
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Mar 21, 2024 02:25
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teethgrinder posted:Still sold me on wireless charging though. Same here, not needing to cycle a pressed fit coupling just to charge the phone is awesome and is just as much a benefit as the convenience.
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CRAYON posted:Getting actual artists to show off their generative tools is some villain poo poo. U mad? They are still just tools at the end of the day, it's not like AI knows what sounds good to the human ear. People probably freaked out about the synth in a similar way.
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