The Last Newsletter of 2025

Happy New Year, gentlefriends! This is the last Android Faithful newsletter of the year 2025. For those keeping score, this is the 29th edition of the newsletter since I started this gig. It's been an honest delight writing for you since I took over this venture in May. That's half a year ago!

I've been slowly working behind the scenes to plan what next year's newsletter will look like. It will hopefully become a green beacon for the self-proclaimed Android hobbyist. I'm not looking to stoke any fires on whether Android or iOS is the better mobile platform. I'm here to write about what being a daily user of the platform is all about—the good and the bad.

But first, rest for the Android Faithful team. Thank you for joining us this week for our first annual Annual Podcast Kudos (APK) Awards. I've embedded it below for those of you who missed the livestream. If you want to get to the awards portion of the show, click here to watch it on YouTube with a bookmark.

Thanks again to everyone for being here: for listening to our podcast every week, interacting with us on social media, chatting during livestreams, and filling out surveys when we need your input. Android Faithful would be nothing without our community.

Links

• This Google service center representative told a Pixel customer that a Samsung charger caused the swollen battery
• Everyone agrees, foldables are great. They still cost too damn much.
• A new anonymous phone carrier lets you sign up with only a zip code. The future of burner phones?
• Another gravestone added to the Google graveyard: Sega Dreamcast's web browser
• Google's Qi2 charging problem is real and it's happened to me