News and notes on the latest from Google.
Huawei and its sister company Honor have been having a choppy time with the custom ROM community lately. A while ago, they completely stopped users from unlocking their bootloaders. Now, they are disabling rooted devices from booting up.
There’s no denying the fact that standing out from the crowd is getting increasingly difficult for phone manufacturers. With cheap flagships becoming more mainstream and mid-range phones becoming powerful enough for your day-to-day needs, there isn’t much point in shelling out the extra hundred bucks or so of your hard-earned money on premium devices. However, there is one particular group that will simply not settle for cheap: hardcore gamers. Until recently, hardcore gamers were forced to spend 700 bucks on the glorious Razer Phone to fulfill their insatiable desire of endless gaming. But the Razer monopoly on “gaming” phones might end soon. There’s a new kid on the block to watch out for…
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Huawei has cleverly implemented a feature called Face Tracking. In short, the phone will keep tracking your face to ensure the phone doesn’t turn off the screen or even dim it as long as you (or any other user) are looking at it. Basically, if it detects a face looking at the phone, the screen remains bright. So if you are reading something like an e-book or a lengthy article, the screen will be lit the whole time overriding the configured screen timeout. Pretty cool. But, it turns out that it might drain more juice than desired under certain conditions.
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Update 7/28, 12:14 PM CT: Huawei is now negotiating with VideoLAN over a possible solution.
If you have bought any modern Android-powered phone from Huawei—or its subdivision Honor—chances are high that you experienced some of Huawei’s additions to the OS in the form of its own skin dubbed as EMUI. Some of these changes are highly appreciable and add more convenience to the user experience, be it some changes to the UI or extra functionality over what the so-called stock Android baseline provides. Other changes might not be so appreciated, among which is Huawei’s own vision of how to manage the running background apps.
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