Recent content by varase

One of my favorites - Notch OS Supreme!

Heh. I'm sure everyone's comfort zone is fine with sending all your pictures, phone calls, and email up to Google's data vacuum cleaner in the sky. As for the iPhone XS shot up there - which one of those buildings do you suppose was the focus point? Don't be evil ... just don't get caught.

If you're just looping through a browser, loading a new page when the last page completes rendering, you could be punishing faster phones in your testing methodology. Say phone A is twice as fast as phone B. If you're just looping as stated above, phone A is putting in twice the work of phone...

I gave up the 7 Plus for the X - and now I want that bigger screen back.

Why? Dunno, but I can give you good guess. Fast charging might be good for your sanity, but I'll be it heats up the battery more and decreases its service life. That might not be a big deal if you've got a replaceable battery, but for a phone with a sealed in battery that can be bad news.

You make it sound like Android is this one big pool, but it's really about five or six operating systems, each with successive release enjoying a slightly better set of APIs and services. What's the adoption rate of Oreo? .5%? The truth of the matter is that Tango was a train wreck because it...

I think you're underestimating the A11 Bionic SoC.

You really wouldn't want to plop a mobile chip into a laptop - you'd want at least a slight redesign to include appropriate thermal sensors and heat transfer points for a cooler - even if its a passive cooler. That would keep the chip from thermaling out so quickly.