They are going to play around with it for a bit, but they will abandon the system once it does get 12 quadrillion MAUs in the first quarter of release.

Instead, the AR glasses maker finally revealed that Aura won’t be processing data on the glasses itself. It will instead use a separate, tethered, puck-like device that sits in your pocket. Like Xreal’s other products, such as its recent One Pro, the glasses have the in-built wire, though you’ll be able to disconnect from the processing device if you want to store the glasses and puck separately.

This does not seem viable.

Not surprised about this. I am surprised it took them so long to move to fully contract manufacturing.

Was this posted in self-hosted because the term is vaguely associated with the concept of getting pregnant?

Looks very much like change for the sake of change, or be more specific, change for the sake of promotion.

F-Droid has the potential to make a much a bigger impact on a relative basis. Most people with still use default app stores, but I think F-Droid still has a long way even among semi-technical audiences.

There is in-app changelog (URL link?), I am assuming this update is not related to the new design.

This is a much needed update. While I like the functionality of F-Droid, the UI is unappealing.

Very well could be. No one in my has a phone with OneUI 7, and I am only happy out phones will be getting it once it’s been beta tested by someone else. 😀

Don’t get me wrong, I got a work issued Galaxy Note 3 in 2014 and I swore off Samsung for 6 years. I liked the phone itself, but software experience was just so bad. It felt like a completely different device after Installed Lineage OS.

But then tried the A50 (after reading several in-depth reviews) and I’ve been buying mid-tier Samsung device for myself and the family sense then.

I’ve been using mid-tier phones for the past ~10 years (including Samsung A series in the last 5) and I’ve never experienced a mid-tier smartphone working this bad on release.

I am surprised the performance was this bad at release. It almost sounds there could something else going on.

You could argue the same about the initial transition from hardware keypad phones to slab style touch screen phones.

I am not saying foldables will without doubt become mainstream, but it’s not beyond the realm of possibility.

I am not arguing for or against a given form factor, I personally like big screens, but I would only be happy for there to be offerings and more competition.

I am just saying that it’s not completely unreasonable to speculate that in the future almost all smartphone will use the foldable format.

I would argue there is also a national component to this. Huawei, a leading Chines tech company (heavily sanctioned by the US), was first to bring a trifold to the market.

I think in 5-10 years foldables will have a strong market presence.

Remember “phablets”; almost all smartphones eventually turned into phablets.

I was really hoping that OneUI 7 wouldn’t be too distracting. I use a custom launcher so that limits the damage, but change for the sake of change is always annoying.

Alternative article that references The Information: https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-lays-off-hundreds-employees-android-pixel-group-information-reports-2025-04-11/

Can you configure the output for something other than a podcast discussion and have a more dry, technical lecture format?

Not a fan of MKBHD, but I could totally see Pixels coming out on top.