With so much happening in the Android world right now, it’s time for a Q&A Session.
If you aren’t keeping up with the news, we have the new Pixel 4a from Google and Samsung’s new Galaxy Note 20 Ultra in-house, as well as just plain ol’ news like new Android 11 betas, Google’s possible foldable plans for 2021, and the Pixel 4/4 XL having their sales pulled. It’s been busy-busy, so it’s completely possible you have some questions concerning new devices, new Android builds, or something else.
The Q&A Sessions are your chance to ask us, the DL Staff, anything that might be on your mind. We can discuss Android, tech stuff, or even sports and food. We don’t mind and we appreciate off-topic questions.
This Friday we will collect the questions and post up our answers.
Galaxy Note 10 plus new at about 600 bucks or the Galaxy S 20 at 999.99
Why doesnt LG make a upper tier tablet.
What does Google need with a fold-able phone when they cant make an excellent flagship phone.
Why does Samsung and Microsoft have such a relationship that MS office stuff is now on all Samsung products? Does it have something to do with MS (android) patents that Samsung has to pay to to use.
Is there a big difference between the 865 and 765G chip? Asking mainly in regards to gaming not so much everyday life. I read a rumor that the Pixel 5 will have the 765G chip along with 8GB’s of ram.
The 865 trounces the 765G:
https://nanoreview.net/en/soc-compare/qualcomm-snapdragon-865-vs-qualcomm-snapdragon-765g
I’m really rather underwhelmed at the 765G, it’s barely even an upgrade (if at all) over the 845 in the Pixel 3:
https://www.notebookcheck.net/SD-845-vs-SD-765G_9958_11878.247596.0.html
There was a “big” Tech Ant-Trust hearing on Capitol Hill a couple weeks ago where Congress did a halfway decent job of pointing out some of the ways the largest tech companies operate as de facto monopolies. Do you guys think operating your own market (Amazon, Google Play, Apple App Store, etc) and providing your own products and services within that market is an anti-competitive conflict of interest or just fair game for an innovative business model?
Is there a future for non-Samsung Android smart watches?
I can answer this one for you… nope! Samsung would not want to cannibalize sales of it’s own software based watches for Wear OS versions. But Wear OS on Samsung hardware would be SCHWEEET!
Upgrade a pixel 3 to the 4a?
Google prides itself on their Pixel line’s ability to use a cheap sensor with software to take best in class photos…but video capture always pales in comparison to Apple and even Samsung. Why don’t you think Google incorporates better camera sensors into their phones so we can have best in class photos AND video? They’ve been using the same Sony IMX363 sensor, launched in November 2016, since the Pixel 3! What gives?!
With the changes to iOS, Apple’s processor dominance, and still no Pixel watch or Pixel tablet on the horizon, why should we stick with Android?
So what do you eventually see happening with Samsung?
They have a pretty nice Tizen effort going on Smart TVs and watches but the rumors of them using it to eventually replace Android have gone totally quiet. They are still pushing One UI hard atop Android and the only bearers of the Android tablet torch. Google has been trying to get them for years to tone things down and utilize standard Google apps where possible. And Samsung and Microsoft have been getting increasingly cozy to push devices like the Galaxy S and Note phones as premiere business-user/corporate smartphones.
it seems to me Samsung is getting pulled in opposite directions by both Google and Microsoft. Heck, they barely even mentioned Google the other day at the Unpacked event.
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What is your favorite piece of tech that you think everyone should own or at least try? Non-tech?
What is the worst piece of tech that you own that you wish you could get rid of but can’t?
Do you think the Pixel 5 is a worthy upgrade for Pixel 3XL owners? At least on the SoC side of things, it feels like a sidegrade in some areas and a downgrade in others, certainly not an upgrade.
Probably too early to tell. We don’t know much about the P5 other than the processor.
I don’t really play many games, mostly just Art of War Legions, but if it’s going to lag in that game more than the 3XL, I’ll skip this year again and hope the 3XL holds out for 3 years I guess.
What do you think of the NBA bubble?
Pixel Buds 2 or OnePlus buds?
Pixel Buds!
Any chance there will ever be a third writer hired to provide that outside perspective that Ron had when he worked for the site?
What (if anything) would Google have to do to drive you to an iPhone? What prompted me to ask this is the article about Android TV getting ads. What if Android starts putting ads in the OS? I think that’d be the tipping point for me.
Secondary question just for Kellen (because I already know Tim likes big phones). Kellen, you used to complain about big phones a lot, but not so much anymore. Have you just come to terms with basically every good phone being gigantic nowadays, or do you still yearn for a smaller, good-quality phone to use on the daily?
That’s it, thanks!
If the rumors are true about Google working on it’s own SoC, do you think they could really pull it off? What do you hope to see from it if it eventually shows up in a product?
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No tech questions as I’m literally on this site everyday. How are you guys holding up? How are your families?