https://www.androidheadlines.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Motorola-Edge-70-Ultra-AH-exclusive-image-1.jpg

Noooooo... :(

From patterns embedded in spaghetti to this 😳. Prepare accordingly or something.

https://support.google.com/pixelcamera/answer/16507662?hl=en
For reference, as you can see, they're clearly not about individual's authorship, where the image author would be the one holding the signing key. It's attestation of "genuine device" embedded in the captured media.

Their design is so much non-private that they had to mention a "strict no-logging policy" on their servers.

Qualcomm has an error in the 7g3 brochure, this SoC doesn't support 4k60 encoding and you can verify it in every possible way (I did).

I've heard people are interested in reading more, this is one additional resource that describes completely authoritative use of content credentials that includes concepts like app whitelisting:
https://security.googleblog.com/2025/09/pixel-android-trusted-images-c2pa-content-credentials.html

I wanted to post this pic and say I miss Syncthing Lite, meanwhile it's resurrected and I didn't notice, wtf.

https://github.com/researchxxl/syncthing-lite/

Yes, we deserve file browsing over P2P without constantly running Tailscale that occupies your Android VPN slot. To get "normal people" off the cloud, you need syncing and browsing that works between their phone, tablet, wife and her husband, while the only laptop at home is sleeping.

The dev handling it is fresh and kinda odd, don't get your hopes up :( There's a mini-drama regarding that at https://github.com/researchxxl/syncthing-android/issues/16.

Want to clean up your storage, but have no idea where to even start? It's simple and psychologically effective and assumes you're already in a root shell of your terminal:
cd /data/
du -ma . -d 100 |sort -n

No, -d doesn't stand for deletion of your files, it's depth. You'll get a relatively quickly generated list of largest directories and files sorted by size in less than 20 seconds unless you check on a desktop with HDD.

https://www.reddit.com/r/NothingTech/comments/1peea5e/ive_found_one_source_of_40_battery_drain/

The worst thing about bloatware is system integration that doesn't make it possible to cut it off without consequences.

(It's something I gotta give to the straightforward uninstallation argument – there's a higher chance that the system won't insist to run an app that was intentionally removable)

Oppo Find X7U is now unintentionally bootloader unlockable for free, presumably as long as it's not updated too far.

Congrats 9to5Google for misinformation 🥰

You don't have to ask engineers, you don't have to ask nerds. Ask any global shutter camera owner if they're exempt from motion blur.
Rolling shutter causes a movement distortion and motion blur is ironically capable of hiding it. Global shutter would be the natural next step after solving dynamic range. But will single frame quality be good enough to alleviate the concern of noise increase the global shutter sensors are known from? Time will tell.

List updated.

Imagine trying to figure it out in 2012:
- Damn, this high-end phone actually sucks in use.
- You know what to do.
- No, bank apps won't let me.

To be clear, it's as mechanical as a mousewheel, it doesn't control the optics physically. That's probably for the better in the sense of design fragility, but third party app support can be funky.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/i-switched-to-esim-in-2025-and-i-am-full-of-regret/

The correct future would be eSIMs downloaded onto removable eUICCs. Sadly, adoption of removable eUICCs only gives a signal to phone vendors through carriers that "eSIMs are getting more popular", ending up in reduced number of physical slots on devices.