Nothing really useful. What I would like to see is better battery life and truly Open Source Android which can be easily degoogled and customized and works on many different devices. An entire ecosystem of Android mods, like me have for Linux. Yeah, that would be nice.
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GrapheneOS. No need to even degoogle.
Just a shame to have to buy google hardware (as well built as it is)
The best way would probably be buying used.
I'm talking about an ecosystem and you listed one mod. I use graphene OS, it's great overall but I would like to have a choice. Maybe I don't want to use a Pixel phone? Maybe I want different set of features?
I also use LineageOS, which also comes sans Google as a flavour, but it's far less secure and much rougher about the edges than GrapheneOS. I choose hardware by alternative OS support. If you want a new tablet the only option is Pixel.
Small updates are fine but I find it a bit deceptive to increase the version number from 15 to 16 just for this
I heard they are adding a desktop mode to android 16, curious if it would be possible to use phone and have a similar experience to an actual PC by connecting monitor and mouse/keyboard, well just using a browser, at the very least.
EDIT: found it
Future updates will also bring even more productivity enhancements to Android, allowing you to connect tablets and phones to an external display for an expanded desktop experience
I connected android phone to external monitor using USB-C like a year ago. I'm not sure what's new here.
The desktop experience. Unless you've been using Samsung deX, which this is built upon.
Was it a Samsung phone? They've had Dex for some time but it was a Samsung specific feature as far as I know.
Yeah, good luck with that, ain't gonna happen. Best we can hope for is open source teams being able to modify android into that.
New OS versions feel like threats.
Poor Seang Chau. They wrote this blog post in a total of three paragraphs, but Google was still like "WOULD YOU LIKE AN AI SUMMARY?" at the top.
Literally took me about 45 seconds to read all of the features, but Google is over here burning down another rainforest to process an AI summary of a three paragraph blog post with three pictures.
Three whole paragraphs?! tl;dr
New Android 6 features tailored to steal more of your data behind your back. And now $500 more expensive!
Now to wait 10 months for samsung to update.
You people are getting updates?
I really hate that I cannot just do everything with the pocket computer I own that is running a supposedly free operating system.
Desktop mode finally? Anything meaningful?
Features:
- Some small back-incompatibilities to irritate devs.
- Moving menues around to irritate users.
- More logs to spy on users.
- More lags and freezes to stimulate upgrades.
- Some evil shit for the sake of evil.
- New wallpapers.
- Some AI shit nobody asked for.
- ... More shit...
- Even more shit...
If there was ever a reason to get grapheneOS...
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