Other than foldables, I think phones have basically settled on their generic form factor. Rounded corners for comfort and fall protection, a small hole punch for the front camera, and buttons only on the side.

In the past, it was about the creative things you could do with bezels as they got smaller and smaller. Now that there are effectively none, there’s not much more left to do. Fingerprint readers moved under screens, camera bumps are here to stay, and everything has USB-C.

Foldables are really the only form factor with room for improvement right now, but then I have to ask myself, do I really need more screen? I don’t even know many people outside of kids and the elderly who even use tablets these days, why do I need my phone to become one?

Currently available in China only, coming to India eventually, no word on availability in EU/NA/any other part of the world.

Lines up with news of OnePlus exiting most of their global market.

It is admittedly more secure.

A stolen card can be used for tap to pay, with not all transactions requiring a PIN with a card. A stolen phone cannot if they don’t have your phone’s PIN or biometrics.

And most phone tap-to-pay apps will also randomize your card data in the transaction to prevent your information from being tracked or compromised in the event of a large-scale data breach, like what happened with Target in 2013 and hundreds of retailers since.

When is it a bad thing to encourage best practices on the Internet to verify sources and recognize signs of LLM slop? They took the time to explain why it’s better to get a direct source and avoid middlemen. That’s not “defensive”.

Your argument is that they simply could have searched for additional sources, but I think you’ve proven the point that simply searching without verifying is likely to yield garbage.

There’s no disparaging OP here unless they are the author of the article. But I believe that the article is being properly criticized for the things it does wrong.

Yeah, that’s how much I used to pay for Google Play Music+YouTube Premium together.

For just YouTube without ads, I’d maybe consider it for, like, $2.99 because I’d like the convenience of being able to use it on my Chromecast again, but $8/mo is just beyond the pale.

Wow it’s so much cleaner. And we can just turn this on all the time?

The article could have led with the addition that she is a Republican politician and left readers to fill in the blanks themselves.

Knew this sort of thing would happen eventually, glad I made the switch away a while back.

When Nova was bought out by Branch, we all knew it couldn’t lead to anything good. But it sucks to switch away, and I know people kept using Nova because they could say “it’s not doing anything sketchy yet.”

With this news, seems safe to say that “yet” is finally “now.” Tim to switch if you haven’t already. I’m happily using Niagara now.

Seems a bit dangerous to make X-ray Glasses without sufficient shielding