Good news for android overall. Hopefully, this could be extended to other OEMs by 2025 and not be optional like virtual A&Bs when it arrives.
(Meanwhile, my current smartphone running 4.19… )
It’s all to get phones ready for Auracast as that’s going to be huge.
What’s Auracast?
Bluetooth broadcasting. One device will be able to stream to hundreds and thousands of devices.
Surely nothing can go wrong with this
It has already been implemented in hearing aids and other stuff. The standard pairing stuff applies, except now you can connect your headphones to your computer and your phone simultaneously rather than having to do the disconnect/reconnect dance every time.
That sounds absolutely please no.
Huh? Why not? Being able to stream multiple languages in a single cinema showing or supporting those with hearing difficulties is amazing.
Even going to clubs and from the outside it looks like a bunch of weirdos dancing to themselves is amazing.
This comment is hinged entirely on the assumption that a(more like many) for-profit business won’t immediately make it a money printer to make line go up, sure the tech may be amazing and huge for accessibility but I see it getting almost immediately milked like most other new technologies.
So we should, what, stop coming up with new ideas because someone might use them for bad things? I guess we should stop making new kitchen knives because you could use them for murder?
No, we should legislate (and then actually enforce that legislation).
I really don’t see any other way to reign in the unchecked capitalism at this point.
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It’s going to be huge.
Is this correct? I thought phones basically already supported it and have done since Android 13. Why is a whole new kernel needed for this one feature?
From what I can gather, there’s a bunch of optimizations for battery that should bring massive benefits
Will there be any battery improvements? My Pixel 6 could use some (I miss the battery life of my 5a, RIP).
There could be. Newer smartphones are going to improve. You should hold out for a year or two and wait until the tensor is efficient and provides good battery life.
Note: The toot mentions Pixel 9 and pixel 8 series smartphones. It could happen but I won’t hold my breath for pixel 6.
What does this mean for most users? What features does this allow/improve that they couldn’t implement before?
Do we know why they are doing this if it’s so unusual?
Edit: and is this an Android change or a Google change? Is a particular android version picky about what Linux version it’s built on?
This only affects modern Pixels, and probably won’t directly impact anything in a way that you as a user will notice. I assume there will be efficiency improvements that may have tiny bumps for performance/battery but probably imperceivable.
I think Google is doing this for security. Now that Pixels are going to be supposed for 7+ years it will be easier to maintain them and keep up with security patches if they are on a more recent kernel version.
You may be able to mount your NTFS formatted Pen drive via OTG w/o Third party apps.
wow i hope that’s not all, that’s a pretty lame update. I can’t think of even one use-case that that would be helpful for.
My long battery life performant phone running Android with kernel 4.14.116 would like an update but it was abandoned years ago. Which is a shame.
8gb ram 256gb storage and a locked Bootloader. Sad times
I feel your pain. A past phone I had did have an unlockable bootloader but it needed service due to a manufacturing defect. The one they gave me as the replacement was a carrier version with a locked bootloader.
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