[–] 2 points 1 day ago

Not for Android directly (tho very encouraged via monopoly bcs Google gets all your data via playservices + profits via playstore), but for other proprietary spyshit (eg preinstalled Facebook app, sometimes users can't even uninstall the app, unless they fiddle with adb) & additionally in cases of megacorps manufacturers get further revenue from users via their own telemetry shit (eg Samsung collects data from your environment that Google misses & sells it to data brokers).
(Why else would a random company preinstall so much third party shit? Ofc they don't do it for free. And everyone is interested in spyphone quantity bcs more users means more data. Much like gaming consoles & printers are kinda subsidized/can sell at a manufacturing loss.)

So sellers of hardware without for-profit stores & no further revenue streams from spying on you have to charge users clients all the cost upfront on the sticker price.
(Not to be confused with the fact that spy-free phones don't have such economies of scale as eg Samsung so their costs per unit are noticeably higher bcs of that too.)

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    The battery in the new Signature 27, which uses silicon-carbon anodes, has a capacity of 7,000 mAh in most parts of the world — but only 5,500 mAh in Germany (rated capacity: 5,350 mAh)

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

    I want Graphene* with decent periscope zoom ... that isn't Google. But ouch. Tho I do get that it doesn't get any subsidies from preinstalled bloatspyware.

    (*well, I want a Linux phone with 10× zoom camera, but I might as well wish for a dragon)

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    Just got pleasantly surprised by the 3.7 release!!

    Thx devs & contributors for keeping the project alive!

    /HeliBoard/releases

    Changes since 3.7-beta1:

    - fix issues with selection wrapping
    - add info to timestamp setting on how to get the button
    - additional info dialogs about gesture data gathering

    Changes since 3.6:

    - add ("normal" / non-inline) emoji search, by @eranl (#1765)
    -- needs emoji dictionary from dictionaries repository
    - add optional gesture data gathering functionality (#1641)
    -- requires gesture typing library, see #2226 for info
    - wrap selected text in braces and similar instead of replacing text (#1948)
    - better detection of which emojis are available
    - allow setting a separate emoji font (#1565)
    - make showing number row in symbols layout optional
    - reduce bad autocorrections for mail addresses
    - fix space bar cursor movement for RTL + non-RTL text, by @eranl (#2199)
    - don't trim selection when recapitalizing, by @devycarol (#2225)
    - improve khipro combiner, by @qomarhsn (#2134, #2239)
    - update Kaitag layout, by @alkaitagi (#2306) minor fixes and improvements

     

    Just got pleasantly surprised by the 3.7 release!!

    Thx devs & contributors for keeping the project alive!

    /HeliBoard/releases

    Changes since 3.7-beta1:

    - fix issues with selection wrapping
    - add info to timestamp setting on how to get the button
    - additional info dialogs about gesture data gathering

    Changes since 3.6:

    - add ("normal" / non-inline) emoji search, by @eranl (#1765)
    -- needs emoji dictionary from dictionaries repository
    - add optional gesture data gathering functionality (#1641)
    -- requires gesture typing library, see #2226 for info
    - wrap selected text in braces and similar instead of replacing text (#1948)
    - better detection of which emojis are available
    - allow setting a separate emoji font (#1565)
    - make showing number row in symbols layout optional
    - reduce bad autocorrections for mail addresses
    - fix space bar cursor movement for RTL + non-RTL text, by @eranl (#2199)
    - don't trim selection when recapitalizing, by @devycarol (#2225)
    - improve khipro combiner, by @qomarhsn (#2134, #2239)
    - update Kaitag layout, by @alkaitagi (#2306) minor fixes and improvements

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