Isn’t medical tourism a thing in the US too; like you can fly to a developing country, get your treatment done by top specialists there and fly back to US and the cost would still be lower than what it would have taken to do in home country.
I just wrote it because it rhymed with the now memed 2004 anti piracy announcement You wouldn’t download a car that was rightfully criticized.
I think Asus Zenfone was an option for that. But for the newer updated model, even they went for a larger screen.
Realme tested a 320W charging brick recently. It charged the battery in under 4 mins.
There are two models, the base and Plus one. Motorola claims that the latter had it’s sound tuning done with help of Bose and apparently, reviews praised it’s sound quality. However, the ANC is mediocre and atleast one feature(spatial head tracking to give more realistic audio) is limited to Motorola phones only.
Their case is lighter and more compact than mine Sennheiser one(but then, the Momentum series is incredibly bulky). I think Nothing also has decent series of earbuds in the same price range though their flashy looks might not be for everyone.
I had one too. Great specs and battery life but piss poor software support.
IIRC, top 4 out of the 5 vendors in India were Chinese with the outlier being Samsung. Nothing also has a factory in South India(Chennai, I think) which is why their products are almost available in India from Day 1 but they don’t have much market share.
How else can they sell you their Moto Buds?
What do you mean you don’t want Shorts inserted in your music player?
They are sold directly. They don’t have a very significant market share but they are still a player.
I think there can still be some balance between updates and price points. I had a Nokia (by HMD) that received two major Android upgrades whilst my Techno phone remained on Android 12 only.
No one is asking for 4 or 7 years of support from Techno but something like 2 Android upgrades is not too much to ask.
Techno offers decent value for money but they need to ramp on their software support part. For some cheap devices, you had be lucky to get a single major Android upgrade.
Everything is a streaming service now. I like to think of even Peloton first as a content driven business and second as a hardware seller.
Don’t most music streaming services have all the major bases covered? Unlike for films or TV shows, there are hardly any music streaming exclusive versions of albums. Sure, Tidal tried to make it happen but still, at this day, most streaming services have most of the stuff one wants.
I think 30+ people died directly in India due to fake message rumors on WhatsApp last year. The rumours were basically of child kidnapping rings doing the rounds and if someone new wandered in into a secluded community, they would be suspected and in rare cases, killed. Since India saw an exceptional implosion in smartphone usage in recent years and WhatsApp is the most popular messaging platform there, it’s a travesty that it happened.
Not exactly. Nothing’s sub brand CMF has SD card support in it, so Nothing could have provided it if they really wanted. It also misses a headphone jack, but Carl Pei would rather have you sell his earpods than give a jack. I don’t think any phone in mid to high range segment except Sony retains headphone jack now, which is a pity.
Samsung used to be even worse I think. In the initial days of the smartwatch industry, I think Atleast one of their watches was for Samsung phones only, not even Android compatible fully.
Many companies reserve certain features for use only within their compatible product range (looks at Samsung for their gatekeeping of Galaxy Watch features to Samsung phones only; heck even TWS manufacturers sometimes bake a feature or two exclusively for use with their phone series only). I wonder if Oneplus offerings are completely platform agnostic or not.
Doesn’t it use adb to uninstall/disable unwanted packages? It is manually doable as well, just takes more time via the terminal.
I think these guys might be able to hack through the process and get stuff done and think getting other people to follow them will be trivial as well. But just because they didn’t mess up, doesn’t mean other people won’t. A large majority might end up hurting themselves if they follow in their route.