The article is only for the first boot setup wizard, I guess it doesn’t have M3 right now but it will after QPR Beta 2

Right now Health Connect is only something to store Health data into, it doesn’t have any write capabilities. Maybe steps are basic enough for it to capture and store some data, and is something people will actually want to use…? But who knows what it means for Google Fit

I will keep using it till it fails

Pocket Casts client is actually open source, server is not AFAIK.

I am very curious if they are going to implement something like Google Ads in the future because I don’t recall any open source app ever having third party ads. Right now there is only a banner ad to subscribe to Premium but on clicking the X button there is an option to “report ad” so surely they are getting third party ads? I have seen locked down features with premium version having full features, but never ads really. Maybe the MPL license they have chosen is very lenient in that way.

If someone forks the app and creates a fully FOSS version I will be fine using that.

Premium now also has “No banner ads” as a feature so no

Is there a point to Termux in the future if Android ever gets a full Linux terminal?

Pixels are aura farming?

Subservient to the algorithm

Wasn’t one of Epic’s wins vs Google that the sideloading wording was malicious which made people scared of sideloading normal apps, so they made it little less malicious

Canvassables category of phones to pop off next

Right but this ZUFS is new, this seems to be one of the first phones with that technology. UFS has existed before only for >=256 GB, so now we need confirmation if going forward ZUFS is only for >=512 GB… And also what on earth it exactly does because the article doesn’t have much technical details, as in how exactly creating zones improves speeds

Use Keepass instead if you want local password management

They are using UFS3.1 in 128 GB, UFS4 in 256, ZUFS in 512 and above.

Apparently there has not been even a single phone with UFS4 in 128 GB, it’s been 256+ only so sounds like there’s a limitation there with the lower storages. And it’s possible that ZUFS has similar limitation for 512+ GB I suppose, will have to wait and see as it seems to be new technology

Feels like diminishing returns at this point. Just up the numbers and nothing else

Its sheer flexibility and public domain license are definitely big factors

Apparently it’s a reference to a poll they did on their website where people actually guessed, but yeah it’s ridiculous out of context

It’s the technically one of the rules of this community so I avoid doing that as much as possible 😶‍🌫️

That saiiiiiiid, I also prefer to avoid editorialising if the article is actually original investigative content, let the news websites have some clicks for doing actual work because others will steal it anyway. Okay well in this case it’s pretty basic (they have an insider source) but yeah I normally don’t won’t do it

I have the same problem with Nova. That said, have you tried updating to the latest version?

https://support.google.com/pixelphone/thread/362911257/google-pixel-update-august-2025?hl=en

Fix for issues with 3-button navigation and gesture navigation in certain conditions*[1]

*[1] Pixel 7, Pixel 7 Pro, Pixel 7a, Pixel 8, Pixel 8 Pro, Pixel 8a, Pixel Fold, Pixel Tablet, Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro, Pixel 9 Pro XL, Pixel 9 Pro Fold, Pixel 9a

Didn’t Snapchat have this for ages? I don’t get what’s so surprising

Looks minor tbh