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SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 hours ago
Limited to Pixel 8 and newer devices and no 4k yet.
Oh, so your Pixel, but not my Pixel.
Armand1@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml 6 hours ago
sad pixel 5 noises
I’ve been waiting for a camera bump free upgrade, the 10a might be it but I’m reluctant to continue up the phone size escalator.
snowdriftissue@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
My guy if you use that phone for anything remotely sensitive you should get a new one. It hasn’t received security updates in over 2 years
BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml 5 hours ago
I don’t use a case and I use Lineage. I’m not really concerned.
SqueakyBeaver@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 hours ago
I’m not sure if lineage has this option, but on my Pixel 8, at least, there’s an option in system -> gestures called One-handed mode. If you use gesture navigation, it lets you swipe down on the navigation bar to either drag the top of the screen into reach or open the notification drawer. You can also map it to the accessibility button (and put it in the navigation bar) if you use the 3-button navigation.
I’m sure you’re content with your solution, but I just wanted to throw this out here in case you wanted to try something new. .
Pxtl@lemmy.ca 5 hours ago
Yeah, I have a pixel 7 and was disappointed on vacation to learn that its USB-C port can’t do video when I wanted to plug it into a hotel room TV.
I don’t get why this is a Pixel thing at all and not an Android thing though. Shouldn’t any Android OS device that can do full video output over USB-C be able to do this?
Ulrich@feddit.org 1 hour ago
Shouldn’t any Android OS device that can do full video output over USB-C be able to do this?
It will eventually. Pixels are usually the first ones to get everything because they are first-party devices.
aquovie@lemmy.cafe 5 hours ago
Video out is frustratingly uncommon. Samsung, some Sony’s, and only very recently Pixels. Google was vocally against video out for a long time. And SD cards (gotta pay for drive). You were expected to roll the dice with whether Chromecast works with a random TV and wifi combination.
Pixels were popular for two reasons: the camera and “basic black rectangle” device (RIP Nexus).
Pxtl@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
Yeah, Chromecast has been kind of a disaster for Google imho, in that it never got widespread adoption in TVs. If they’d pushed an open standard they might’ve been able to get that over the finish-line and get buy-in from 3rd parties. But instead every smart TV and smart phone has its own video streaming approach, it seems.
mierdabird@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 hours ago
The LG V20 had it all, still miss daily driving that phone
criticon@lemmy.ca 5 hours ago
Not all USB-C are equal. They can add or remove features as they please
Pxtl@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
Right but I’m specifically referring to devices where their USB-C port is capable of full video out.
BladeFederation@piefed.social 4 hours ago
It’s supposed to be for Android 16 kn general once the feature is fully baked
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 2 hours ago
The 4 (iirc) also had USBC video out but google removed that functionality only to now have a reason to sell you a new phone. I hope its actually good and they publish source for it, otherwise this news is fucking useless.
masterspace@lemmy.ca 5 hours ago
Let’s be clear, for a feature that Samsung phones have had for a decade at this point.
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
This feature debuted on the Moto Atrix in 2011. There was even a version of Ubuntu that could use the feature.
zelifcam@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
They sure did have a version of it. But you had to run their privacy nightmare app suite on their mutilated android OS. So no who one cared or cares.