What does the “video call” thing mean? Only video calls with Google Meet or are other services supported, too?
What does the “video call” thing mean? Only video calls with Google Meet or are other services supported, too?
Based on the complexitiy of this setup, you need to be quite enthusiastic about your homelab.
It’a about locating objects like headphones:
While locating objects over Bluetooth is possible, it’s also not very precise — but that’s what Bluetooth 6.0 and its new Channel Sounding feature are looking to solve.
Lineage OS doesn’t allow to do major updates via the integrated updater. You need a PC to upgrade.
Pixel updates will still take a few weeks, IIRC they are announced for early october.
Looks nice, but very minimalisitc
The article includes a summary, which I have copied here:
Key Takeaways
- Google Play is adding a new menu to help users control what app data Google can use for personalization.
- This feature makes it easier to opt out of data sharing for each downloaded app, though finding the app you’re looking for is tricky right now.
Thanks, I’ll give it a try
This looks all the same like every Pixel 8 Phone.
One thing was new for me though, the Taskbar app looks nice
Whats not aupported is to run gemini nano directly on your phone. The default gemini (in the cloud) works fine.
That’s why people here are discussing Gemini nano, which can run locally on your phone and not in the cloud (like the “normal” gemini model)
I have the Pixel 8a. For me, it’s really a great phone. As far as I know, the 8a is never going to get the “Gemini AI” software due to limited memory (does not apply to 8/8pro).
Camera, performance, screen etc is mostly similar as I heard.
It takes a year or so until the second hand market has plenty to offer. But already a few days after the release you can find the first offers.
Regarding cloning apps: Maybe try Shelter. It lets you setup a work profile and clone apps.
This can be nice for messenger apps for example.
When Android uses this larger page size, we observe an overall performance boost of 5-10% while using ~9% additional memory.
From the linked article. So I doubt that the larger page size is the (only) reason for 16G ram. AI is the more likely reason.
Never use SMR drives for a RAID setup. But outside of RAID, they’re probably fine.
True, they have some interesting features. But at least if they use Windows ML, these apps can run on any hardware. The only difference is the performance that can be achieved.
They said something in the video you linked that the developers could use a larger model thanks to the performance of the Snapdragon Chip. And with Davinci, they said that the performance with NPU is better than with GPU.
What I’m trying to say is that these things are not a new invention of 2024. NPUs were introduced at least 7 years ago (for ARM CPUs). The Microsoft APIs have been there for three years. The only new thing is the marketing hype around AI.
The hardware industry wants to sell new devices. Most software companies just upload your data to the cloud and to the AI magic there (e.g. ChatGPT, Bing Image creator).
AI Phones or AI laptops are IMO a pure marketing invention.
I think its hard to have a foldable device that has a phone aspect ratio (2:1) when open and a reasonable size (and thickness) when closed.
This could only be done like the flip phone (1:1 --> 2:1) or by multiple folds (like the triple fold huawei).