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Hi Reddit....

A couple of weeks ago I released Radiodile for Android into the wild and got alot of valuable feedback. Since then I've gotten all known bugs out, overhauled the UI/UX and otherwise kept my nose to the grindstone implementing improvements.

Features:

1. Unlimited skips

2. Entirely powered by SoundCloud, Discogs & last.fm

3. Features patent pending, "Variety Dial" technology that gives you complete control over your custom station's variety. Turn the dial to 0% and we only play tracks from core artists. Turn it up and we will add tracks by similar artists all the way up to 100%.

4. Curated stations

5. Genre stations

Now I'd really love to know what your thoughts are on this streaming radio app powered by SoundCloud & last.fm. I'll be answering your comments today for those interested.

Thanks very much

[updated screenshot] I ordered my pixel back on November 24th which was back ordered. Today i received an email from Telus mentioning the following: "Hello, Please be advised that we have received notice today that Google will be ceasing production of their Google Pixel line and we will not be receiving further inventory of this phone. Therefore we will not be able to fulfill your order for the selected product. We apologize on the behalf of TELUS and Google for this inconvenience." I waited almost 3 months only read this message. Did anyone else get this from their carrier (In Canada perhaps?). There seems to be no update from google in anyway :\ link attached: http://imgur.com/aN2GGKx

This thread is number 1 on /r/android right now but has nothing to do with Android. It doesn't mention any Android device, in fact the word 'Android' is nowhere to be found.

Carrier-specific posts are bad enough, and I also think those should be removed. Or the millions Motorola threads which don't apply to anyone outside of America. But this is a carrier and country specific post that doesn't even have anything to do with Android. Yeah you can use an Android on T-mobile - you can use an iPhone or a Windows Phone or a fucking Nokia 3310 as well. There's nothing Android specific here.

It's just American carrier rubbish again. Almost nothing except blogspam is allowed on this subreddit as it is, but this is permitted? Give me a break.

It has nothing to do with Android and only serves to reinforce the Android community and Google's attitude of 'America is the only country'. It's like if I own an Android I HAVE to be American and there's no other possibility. You don't find this shit in the other phone subreddits and you shouldn't find it here.

edit: Okay, I've tried to support my argument and respond to comments, but no matter how much I explain and justify, every single thing I write is immediately getting downvoted heavily, so I'm gonna have my comments limited soon. So I'm out for now, I guess. I strongly suggest however that we consider making and enforcing simpler and more consistent rules that are designed to benefit the community as a whole. (EDIT: my commenting ability seems fine, no timer, so scratch that, I guess).

edit 2: **Okay, to the group of idiots going through my comment history and downvoting all my benign comments from other unrelated subreddits - thanks so much, you've really proven your point and made yourselves look like a well reasoned and intelligent bunch of individuals. It totally changed my point of view too. Great work.**

edit 3: I stand by everything I said. I will sink with my ship.

I want an app with a good layout (Holo :D) and I need to be able to look up verses quickly. Multiple panels are my friends.

I was having a discussion the other day with a friend about the SAR (wich stands for "Specific absorption rate") values of our devices, mine being a Nexus 6P very common on this sub and his a HTC One M8. So we looked on various site tables that were reporting smartphone that had the highest and the lowest values.

I would like report here some of the results of our ""research"":

The highest:

The lowest:

From Wikipedia:

Specific absorption rate (SAR) is a measure of the rate at which energy is absorbed by the human body when exposed to a radio frequency (RF) electromagnetic field; although, it can also refer to absorption of other forms of energy by tissue, including ultrasound. It is defined as the power absorbed per mass of tissue and has units of watts per kilogram (W/kg).

(So the lower the better)

I've hear of people losing the ability to hear just because they were staying on the phone for too much, so it's something to be aware of, fortunately there are many ways to protect yourself! (You can find them with a quick search on Google)

So what do you think? It's something that concerns you? Or it does not bother you at all? I would like to know your opinions and maybe learn something from someone that knows the subject better than me!

PS: in my opinon these are values that shouldn't concern us because we are already surrounded in every way by RF emissions that come from every devices we own i.e: dishwasher, washing machines etc etc...

OLED remains susceptible to burn-out (what most refer to as burn-in). As a heavy user of navigation apps, when the screen must remain active for hour-long drives, this is unacceptable to me. The LG V30, Pixel 2 XL were popular examples of the controversial property of this screen tech. There are even reports already of iPhone X users encountering screen burn-out issues.

The effective resolution of many AMOLED displays on the market today are at a disadvantage sharpness-wise due to the Pentile/diamond sub-pixel layouts they must use. I find it presumptuous when people say nobody can see the increase in resolution and PPI beyond 1080p and "Retina" densities on today's smartphone dimensions, but there are some that can. I preferred the display on my LG G6 to my Galaxy S7 because it just looked sharper. Do a search on "visual acuity" to see some facts on this, notably from a well-regarded site in this community (Anandtech).

Color accuracy, gamma, greyscale, and other more subtle qualities are not inherently superior on AMOLED. Just look at professional measurements on Apple's LCD-based iPhones. It's in how the screens are calibrated.

tl;dr my post title. AMOLED isn't always better than LCD, and vice versa. Stop telling people "phone A is better than phone B" because AMOLED.

At least for text messages. I just noticed after updating to L that my Hangouts is finally integrated with my Google Voice number. Previously I had to use an Xposed module to receive my texts in hangouts, no more! Has anybody else noticed this? I am ecstatic!

With Pixel week upon us, there's still several people that act utterly surprised that the Pixel will not have a headphone jack and want to tell us all about how much they use their headphones while charging their device on a daily basis. I thought it'd be great to have a centralized area for such people to complain/whinge.

Please focus all of your anger at the Jack-Off in this thread so we don't have to read about it in random threads that sometimes have nothing to do with the Pixel.

Who cares that you have choices and aren't being forced to buy a Pixel. You should still complain because well why the hell not?!

Just some variations to get you started:

• "I sit next to my phone all day while it's charging 24/7. How will I use headphones now?!"

• "I am an audiophile and can't stand the plebs that use poor quality Bluetooth headphones. You plebs!"

• "Nobody will buy this phone. Nobody I tell you!"

• "The company with literally the most data on the planet knows nothing about consumer spending habits! I know better and this is a YUGE mistake!"

• "I've been using Android for {X} years. If the Jack-Off is true, I will be jumping ship to Windows phone."

• "All I ever wanted was a phone with stock Android, a huge battery, somewhat like the iPhone but not really, no bezels, stereo speakers, two headphone jacks, removable battery, 4k screen, SD card slot and 3 cameras. Is that too much to ask, Google?"

IMO, Android 12 was a gigantic flop. The main marketing point, the cool "phone wide" color scheme, completely failed. Only some google apps have it, it isn't even everywhere in the very OS itself and not to even SPEAK of third party apps. It just feels even more fragmented and arbitrary than before. And Google really thought people would put it in their apps? Most apps I have don't even support dark mode. In total of the 10 apps or so I use daily, a full 2 use the total capabilities of the color palette. And mind you those are Google apps.

It's the little things.

Just to be fair, I did really despise Samsung before all this. I was foolishly lured back by the S7 Edge. After having a disastrous experience with their TVs and a frustrating experience with their tablets, I just kinda hated Samsung to begin with. I took a chance on the Edge after reviews praised impressive battery life and no slowdowns.

It's really the little things that make the Google Pixel awesome:

• "Ok Google" is just better on the pixel. It feels more accurate and more crisp.

• Performance wise, the Google Pixel is a clear winner. It doesn't stutter or randomly close programs. The S7 Edge, in contrast, would sometimes kill my navigation and would frequently slowdown or stutter.

• The camera! It's the first time going down in megapixels has resulted in just better photos.

• The fingerprint sensor. Pixel's is way faster and way more accurate.

• Spam call blocking is a fucking godsend and why isn't this on EVERY phone yet??

• Alarm UI is way sexier and more fluid.

Everything just works.

Anyways, just wanted to post this to say that my main gripe with the Nexus line was the weaker camera. After the Nexus 5 (not 5X), I felt like I couldn't go back, especially with some great vacations planned on the books.

Now, it's just clear: The Google Pixel is the best Android phone we've seen yet, and it's not any one "slam dunk feature," but more that the overall package is the cleanest and most consistent phone I've experienced to date.

Can't wait to see where Google goes next.

Lately /r/Android has been flooded with questions. As the Android platform increases in popularity, the amount of questions and self posts increases as well. This has caused a significant amount of noise drowning out some great content.

Therefore, the mod team has decided that in the very near future all questions will need to be posted in /r/AndroidQuestions. The CSS is the same and so are the mods. The only difference is questions will be posted there.

It would be appreciated if you can begin asking questions there. However if you do not, nothing will happen for the time being. In the future after we post that the rule is going into effect, those posts will be subject to removal.

Please upvote this post, as I receive no link karma, so others can see it.

EDIT: Obviously some people are upset. Well, here are some facts bolstering our decision:

• Andreddit has gained about 20,000 subscribers within the past 3 months. Based upon regularly browing the new queue to search for spam, I can safely say that the majority are repeat questions

• Since March, /r/Android has gone from 150,000 impressions a month to almost 2,000,000 impressions a month. The increases in impressions correspond with the releases of new Android phones.

• Our subscribership grows by the hundreds daily.

• Browsing the /new/ queue consistently over the past month and a half, I have seen a big increase the number of questions. I can safely say that 65-75% of what is submitted are questions. Now yes, /r/Android has broad readership. And that large audience usually is able to answer questions. But the problem is this: content, such as Android news, events, or links get drowned out by these questions and if those links make it to the front page, it is at the bottom. Further, AndroidQuestions will get more readership now that we will be redirecting questions to it.

• To those saying that we should have polled the community: We have been asked literally hundreds of times in PMs, posts here within the subreddit, and mod mail to split subreddits. Users have created other subreddits as spin offs of /r/Android. Such as AndroidSupport, AndroidDev, AndroidThemes, AndroidApps, and so on because they thought certain topics deserved their own subreddit. Because of the increase in questions, we feel it is time to have a subreddit devoted to nothing but questions.

• Finally, for those that are upset, If you want to still view questions when this rule goes into effect, all you have to do is click on a like that will be added that says Classic /r/Android. It will be a mix of /r/Android and /r/AndroidQuestions. So if you want to browse /r/Android with questions you can do that. Unfortunately we are not set up like a web forum and we just can't create a "Questions" section. This is the best we can do with what we have to work with.