PDA: Portable Data Appliance - Android Faithful Episode #73

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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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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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NEWS

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

HARDWARE

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

APPS

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

COMMUNITY

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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