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Back in 2024, Sony made a viewer-transmitter for their cameras, gave it Snapdragon 8g2 and certified it as a phone, so it got a symbolic camera as a gratis, presumably to meet Google's definition of a phone. https://www.sonyalpharumors.com/press-text-sony…
From how I'd interpret the FAQ, it allows you to bind an external camera into ID 0 or ID 1, making this device much more versatile than a usual smartphone connected to external camera.
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https://support.apple.com/en-us/127848

Apple officially implemented a hand-warmer mode as means of dropping the battery charge below 20Wh, alongside a setup wizard charge state info availability to allow them to skip shipping restrictions.
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There's something I wanted to say for a long time regarding PWM sensitivity. I'm largely agnostic about this topic, but at the same time, everything wrong with display output is close to my heart and I can surely list at least one source of flicker that's outside of widely discussed characteristics of PWM itself.

If you ever looked at an OLED in the dark, you might've visually noticed a flicker at the moment of refresh rate switch, whenever you leave the screen idle for a second. Sometimes it's minimal, sometimes it's dramatic. OEMs are aware of their existence, but their solutions to this problem tend to be merely a bandaid. Whenever the brightness drops below 30~50%, they tend to force a constant refresh rate on you.

There is another way. Something the people with cameras recording displays at short exposure time are so close to discovering, and yet I'm yet to see it mentioned even once. Keep the main refresh pulse (the one you'll always see even at max brightness, even with DC dimming on) unchanged through refresh rate changes.

That's it, I'd want to end this post here. Obviously, the difficulty of implementing that may vary between display controllers, and who knows, maybe some of them would have to be fed with duplicate frames. Regardless, the reason of on-switch flicker is a physical change that follows the commands asking for it. The Tearing Effect pulse is what we're talking about in particular. From driver's standpoint, it makes some sense to reduce their count, but physically, on an OLED, the only solid way to make the panel look constant is to also keep these pulses constant too.

Mi 17 has a setting that increases their count from up to 120 to up to 360 per second. Yes, "up to", it sucks. They had the greatest opportunity of keeping the panel look constant, such a config would allow switching seamlessly even between 120Hz and 90Hz modes, and yet the RR changes are evident in lowlight and to camera. If done right, their hardware would allow them to completely eliminate flicker visible to camera exposing at 1/360s and therefore, imo, also to naked eye, as image persistence would do its job.

Funnily enough, Google did provide a way to achieve what I'm saying without involvement of the panel, but it'll be a few extra years until this source of flicker disappears.

https://source.android.com/docs/core/graphics/arr
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Oh no, I'll map your supply chain and then what? I'll compete with you in sales volume in 10 years? I'll hype your permalocked product before announcement?

We went from "no one's interested in your sensor format and name" in 2010s to "it's so confidential that we should inconvenience our engineers so that it'll hopefully not leak" xD
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I realized that Qualcomm really insists that 8s SoC series shouldn't be hitting the complete capabilities of premium chips from years ago. The 1080p480 slowmo and an 8k60 decoder strongly imply that 8sg4 wouldn't have an issue with 4k120/8k30 encoding. I…
They did it again. Both Elite and Elite Extreme received 1080p960, which is as much pixel rate as 4k240 and 8k60, but only the highest tier SoC got the latter two. They also cut APV from their definition of an Elite SoC.
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Moto casually posting AI-generated interior and mangled exterior of Signature 27 on their site
https://www.motorola.com/gb/en/motorola-signature/motorola-signature-2027
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Official Lineage OS poco x6 what's problem with calculator app
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We don't... we don't wanna talk about the ZEISS Ultra Wide-Angle Camera.
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OPlus is killing OP's global market presence with so much dedication that they're going out of their way to presumably prevent even the import of Chinese units. They want it gone off the global market, you must all buy Oppo now in their mind.
This only strengthens my suspicion. OP15T owners outside of China report getting just LTE and no 5G, despite none of such things on Realme GT8 Pro. It's purely a software matter.

It's still worth getting this phone and unlocking its bootloader, but normie compatibility suffers if you intend not to keep it and sell it. Seeing the current market tho, better keep it guarded, it may be the last non-foldable compact high-end mainstream device with widely available unlock for years, alongside Mi 17 series.
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Seeing news like this, a little reminder absolutely not in defense of the market:
I hope these price increases will let consumers realize that high-end doesn't provide proportionately more use out your device. Your phone is defined by (un)planned obsolescence long before you get your hands on it. If people start voting with their wallets just a little bit, there's a higher chance that high-end will try offering just a little bit more longevity to actually sell.
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Found a completely fraudulent (AI-generated) Moto Signature 27 review, linked by someone totally oblivious to it. Uploading it here because we shouldn't bring any money to people solely concentrated in wasting our time. To be fair, YouTube labels it as AI-generated, but looks like it doesn't suffice to stop the fraud's viability.
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Found a completely fraudulent (AI-generated) Moto Signature 27 review, linked by someone totally oblivious to it. Uploading it here because we shouldn't bring any money to people solely concentrated in wasting our time. To be fair, YouTube labels it as AI…
Worst thing I just realized: it comes from an actual, human YouTuber who decided to grift with AI generated reviews, who in the past used to hit around a million of views on his videos. It doesn't look like an account that changed its owners as some of the recent videos remain human-made. Zero integrity 🀧
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We certainly need PairIP and Play Integrity on our desktops! We could finally replace all of the insecure websites with them! We love GMS and being logged in! Congrats John Wu! Buy Googlebooks to make it real! Yeah, it's totally normal to ask your current OS for permission to install another on PC!
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https://kitsumed.github.io/blog/posts/android-may-soon-restrict-on-device-adb/ Oops, looks like wireless ADB is somehow too convenient to access and your granny will use it to bypass the 24h cooldown and install malware 🀯
As I don't think I'd write it better than a model, it looks like for the sake of preventing your granny from advancing her device clock to get scammed, your offline device must be powered on for the whole 24h Google forces you to wait, otherwise internet access is mandatory.
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