Seems like we are going to have to wait for Google to actually release the dang things and then for the EU to step in and require it… Lord knows the US won’t do anything

And hopefully everything becomes a standard so people on both operating systems can leverage these features together

That seems worth the trade off in my opinion. All I want is a longer lasting battery so maybe that’ll be worth grabbing if I need a new device.

And yet my Pixel 7 Pro is stuck on the August patch. Glad I got this for the quick updates.

I think the argument is that the monopoly is present because it’s basically pointless outside of China to launch a phone without play services. So while you can release a phone based on AOSP, it’s not going to be successful financially without the Google apps and tweaks from Play Services

Is the A54’s battery that good? I’ve heard nothing but positive things about the 23 Ultra battery and I’d assume you get more than twice the performance/features right?

No they are allowing you to view them in YouTube and the Google TV library section of the app

Nope. Every browser is basically Safari with a different coat of paint on it. It’s very anti competitive and monopolistic if you ask me

Has anyone else had trouble with Google search on Firefox for Android recently? It freezes after it provides results so I can’t click links. Weirdly, I don’t have this issue with Chrome, Edge, or Samsung Internet.

Apple is very much becoming more and more into gathering data for it’s own ad business. They are pushing the privacy thing now and forcing out most ad competition so they can come in and dominate on their platforms

Exactly my thoughts! I’m waiting for confirmation on that before I decide to buy my next tracker

Same! Never had one but definitely wanted one. I also wanted that Nexus 4 with the sparkle back to compliment it but I ended up with the Note 2 for that massive screen.

Back then people made jokes that I carried an iPad as a phone lol how times have changed

I would hope Samsung would switch to the Android standard or at least support it and their Samsung equivalent

Me too! With those specs it’d be better than my current laptop, but it’s also probably twice as an expensive as my laptop

I wonder what that’s likely to be. Usually the top Android features are finalized by now. Unless they’re are some Pixel exclusive features we don’t know about

Why has no one tried to recreate that sparkly back?

They are also raising it for student plans. I got an email saying my student rate is going to $7.99 starting in September

And it won’t get better any time soon given all their time is spent on bard for now

But then they do stuff like this

Seems like you should consider an alternative

This was just posted today