The Android Faithful team is joined by Juan Bagnell who gives his review of the massive (dare I say chonky) TANK Pad, along with discussion of Google's antitrust appeal, Honor's focus on portrait photography, OnePlus's Live Alerts, and IDC's smartphone growth predictions.
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The Android Faithful team is joined by Juan Bagnell who gives his review of the massive (dare I say chonky) TANK Pad, along with discussion of Google's antitrust appeal, Honor's focus on portrait photography, OnePlus's Live Alerts, and IDC's smartphone growth predictions.
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00:06:40 - Google asks US appeals court to reject app store monopoly verdict
00:12:33 - Microsoft says it built an Xbox game store on Android but can’t launch it
00:21:37 - Worldwide Smartphone Market Forecast to Grow 6.2% in 2024
00:30:16 - Former Android devs working on an operating system for AI agents
00:36:15 - Motorola announces open beta program for advanced moto ai features
00:39:47 - PATRON PICK: OnePlus took iPhone's Dynamic Island and made it way more useful
00:47:38 - Juan Reviews the Tank Pad
01:00:20 - US gets its first Snapdragon 8 Elite phone
01:07:19 - Honor 300 and 300 Pro
01:12:25 - More images of the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra
01:19:55 - OnePlus 13 launches globally in January
01:20:45 - What the Pixel Tablet 2 would have been
01:24:17 - Samsung reveals the fate of the DeX Windows app
01:25:35 - Google Maps app showing incident reports from Waze
01:27:27 - Firefox for Android v133
01:30:05 - Jonathan wants a review of the Moto Tag trackers
01:35:45 - Ian Hall shares the BuzzKill app as a solution for taming Bluesky new follower notifications
01:37:03 - Mike W wants to know how durable our foldables are in actual use
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