bradavon
Commenting since February 2025
On 5 apps you should use instead of Google Messages - Android Authority ·
Passing on WhatsApp outside of the USA, is the same as an American passing on iMessage. Got it?
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On 5 apps you should use instead of Google Messages - Android Authority ·
The question is non-sensical. WhatsApp and Signal offer completely different messages services to all the others. Which all offer SMS, including Google Messages. As does iMessage. You need both SMS and an Instant Messaging service. Outside of the USA. Everyone's number 1 is WhatsApp but it's not a case of picking this over Google Messages. I use both. Particularly when none of the other SMS apps here offer RCS.
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On Samsung Keyboard could get two new Galaxy AI tools with One UI 9.5 - Android Authority ·
So it has no updates. I don't use the Samsung keyboard and the phone already has Gemini. I don't use any of the current AI. I can't find a use for it. The only AI I use is the one in Google search.
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On Google's working on a great Android feature to save you from 'storage full' struggles ·
So as opposed to the Cloud Storage option. You can be anywhere and if you leave the PC on, its on your PC at home in minutes. The backup transfers directly to the PC so can only backup when you're near the pc. What overall a tremble idea. Unless you're so against cloud storage. Which provides a backup of your data.
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On Google just rolled out the Android backup feature we've been waiting for all year ·
So as opposed to the Cloud Storage option. You can be anywhere and if you leave the PC on, its on your PC at home in minutes. The backup transfers directly to the PC so can only backup when you're near the pc. What overall a tremble idea. Unless you're so against cloud storage. Which provides a backup of your data.
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On Unpopular opinion: Google shouldn’t build Aluminum OS ·
He idea of Linux apps on Android is a very different one to Linux apps on ChromeOS. ChromeOS is designed for mouse and keyboard for one thing. Android isn't.
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On Unpopular opinion: Google shouldn’t build Aluminum OS ·
Android/Windows and Android/MacOS integration are terrible ideas. Besides they've already attempted the former and it wasn't great.
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On Unpopular opinion: Google shouldn’t build Aluminum OS ·
I don't think it's worse than it's ever been. It's always been used but niche and Google knows this.
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On Unpopular opinion: Google shouldn’t build Aluminum OS ·
This is what they're doing. ChromeOS works really well on laptops. It's never been intended, or needs to be, Windows and MacOS. Those were designed over 4 decades ago before the Internet existed. The world is now very browser based, not entirely of course.
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On Tell us: What is the best phone for casual users in 2025? ·
Yeah me too. Buy the phone and SIM only all the way. My last contract phone was the Galaxy S10. For the most part contracts are overpriced. And at least in The UK they never tell you when your contract has finished, so have paid for the phone. Is this the same as The USA? It REALLY should be illegal.
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On Tell us: What is the best phone for casual users in 2025? ·
Not the Galaxy Note or as its now known Galaxy Ultra. Galaxy Sxx or Sxx Plus.
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On Tell us: What is the best phone for casual users in 2025? ·
Picking a phone doesn't make a platform complicated. Windows is no different and is fine. People just pick up and the market is iPhone or Samsung always has been. So no Android picking anyway. At least proven not to be complicated outside of The US where Android is easily used more globally.
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