Recent content by kirk781

Whilst a lot of services/apps across all platforms have pivoted towards the subscription model [some with some valid model and some with having no basis altogether]; is the future curving towards the latter for Android [or all OS's in general]? What piqued my interest in General was a third...

I think I have three external apps installed on watch, if you ignore the dozens of third party watch faces. A weather app [Today Weather], Spotify's companion app [recently switched from YT Music] and Pocketcasts' Wear OS app. That's it.

Realme is sadly my current daily driver. Sure, bloatware that had to be disabled or removed via adb and at best, an okayish Realme UI with the odd quirk here and there but it has both SD card slot and 3.5 mm Jack which made me choose it over Nothing's CMF Phone.

Opera once was a great browser back in the Symbian days when it ran it's own engine. Now, if I am correct, it's just a Chromium re-skin. Firefox has basic support for extensions and if one installs a FF fork like Waterfox or IceRaven, they can even sideload extensions..

There are many Android phone manufacturers, ranging from big name ones like Samsung and Oneplus to lesser known like Redmi . However, I wish to ask what is the most obscure Android phone you have used from a company that is still in business. I'll start with two lesser known, if not the most...

The rotating bezel was likely the Classic series. I have the normal Galaxy Watch 6 [Samsung doesn't accept trade-ins for it's watches in my country, so my previous GW 4 is/was e-waste]. The battery life is of course, a downer compared to OnePlus [though it does stretch to 1.5-2 days thanks to...

Meanwhile, I had to get my Sennheiser Momentum True Wireless 3 send in THRICE [though ultimately got the newer MTW 4 model] because the quality control is so dense. Scrolling once through the Sennheiser sub and one had realize that the company mucked up three consecutive generations of their...

I think the first two points can be applied to many countries in the world. The best trade-ins are offered in the US and most features are first made available there only.[Many Pixel features take year plus to make their way along the globe, if at all]. As for the Battery on the Pixels, Google...

Oneplus Watch has a dual OS setup. Wear OS and a RTOS [Real Time OS]. The pre built watch faces are optimized for both scenarios , I assume and if say, AOD is enabled, Wear OS won't be running in the background. It would be RTOS and the watch face would still work. Third party watch faces might...

Reminds me of my Galaxy Watch ; they also charge wirelessly. The GW 6 models start off, in theory with 10W speeds but soon drop down really quick due to the heat. Heck, during peak summer time [read: temperatures exceeding 40C] , I have seen the GW4 outright refuse to charge after being put on...

Bold of Google to assume people will pay. Here in India, Perplexity is bundling it's exceptionally expensive services[atleast on paper] with low end cellphone subscriptions/recharges (with the operator Airtel). I assume they are banking on two things. First, they want to cover more market area...

The Xperia series technically exists as a showcase of Sony's phone division. However, despite some features like SD card and 3.5 mm jack at that price point; they rarely sell well. Sony didn't help it's case by pricing them exorbitantly and doing poorly in terms of OS upgrades [though they have...

Some feature overlap with Castro; a similar app though that shows lesser info I believe.

BBS (or if that has already been answered before), then baud.

Not to sideline, but how old is this forum in general [I am assuming the decade plus old layout would have been way different than today's] ? Also, I guess forums are fast losing user base. Compared to the past when forums were a more decentralized and often only mode of discussion; now more...