Google Releases Android 13, Rolling Out First To Pixel Phones (theverge.com) 23
This year's major Android update, Android 13, is officially releasing today for Google's Pixel phones, the search giant has announced. From a report: The annual update is getting an official release a little earlier than usual, following Android 12's release last October and Android 11's release in September 2020. The list of updates arriving with this year's version of Android is likely to be familiar if you've been keeping up with Android 13's beta releases. There's the ability to customize non-Google app icons to match your homescreen wallpaper that we saw in Android 13's first developer preview, a new permission to cut down on notification spam, and a new option to limit which of your photos and videos an app can access.
Back in January, we wrote that Google planned to spend this year catching up with Apple's ecosystem integrations, and there's more evidence of this in Android 13's official release. The update includes support for spatial audio with head tracking, which is designed to make sounds appear as though they're coming from a fixed point in space when you move your head while wearing compatible headphones, similar to a feature Apple offers for its AirPods. Today's post doesn't say exactly which headphones this will work with, but Google previously announced it would be updating its Pixel Buds Pro to offer support for spatial audio. Secondly, there's the ability to stream messages from apps including Google Messages directly to a Chromebook, similar to iMessage on the Mac.
Back in January, we wrote that Google planned to spend this year catching up with Apple's ecosystem integrations, and there's more evidence of this in Android 13's official release. The update includes support for spatial audio with head tracking, which is designed to make sounds appear as though they're coming from a fixed point in space when you move your head while wearing compatible headphones, similar to a feature Apple offers for its AirPods. Today's post doesn't say exactly which headphones this will work with, but Google previously announced it would be updating its Pixel Buds Pro to offer support for spatial audio. Secondly, there's the ability to stream messages from apps including Google Messages directly to a Chromebook, similar to iMessage on the Mac.
...must migrate to Lineage OS (Score:4)
As a current owner of a fine Pixel 3a, (with a case I like, from Google in-fact), it looks like I'm soon destined for LineageOS in order to receive security updates only unsupported hardware.
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LG G5 (2016) running Lineage OS.
Android security update
5 August 2022
Best wishes,
Bob
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I have an LG G4 that I really have no desire to leave behind. How is Lineage OS?
I'm afraid that it looks like the G4 is not officially supported by Lineage, although there may be an unofficial port. In any case, I've been happy with Lineage OS. (On various phones and tablets.)
Best wishes,
Bob
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I bought an unlocked Pixel knowing at the time I could install another OS whenever I wanted, unlike Apple iOS devices, (which receive 5 years of support from Apple I understand). As a Linux person, I could see this coming, along with modern open-source options. I knew what I was buying into.
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Same reason I bought a Pixel. My previous phone was semi obscure in the US and only had limited Lineage support... I got 6 years out of it, but the last person updating the unofficial builds stopped and that was that. So easy unlock ("adb reboot fastboot" and "fastboot flashing unlock" and that's it) and good LOS support.
Plus, the 5A has a headphone jack. If only it had an SD card slot it'd be amazing. Battery replacement... looks to be about the same as my old phone, annoying, but not impossible.
Those are
Re: ...must migrate to Lineage OS (Score:2)
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I traded in my Pixel 3a for the 6a. Only cost $150.
Definitely worth it.
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Fascinating info, although since I am not currently in The US the offer is frustrating me, although I've got a bit more than a month to figure something out. What's notable is if I were to buy a Pixel 6, I'd only receive $47 for my old Pixel 3a, whereas a purchase of a Pixel 6a would give me $300 credit.
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I'll pass for a day or two (Score:1)
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Hopefully, it's better than the initial Pixel 6 release. Man, that fingerprint reader was a joke to start with. I was kind of a fool to jump on the Pixel 6, but I had a 3a and knew that it would be ending support this spring. I thought so many times about returning the thing and buying something different....
I'll pass for a year or two (Score:3)
until the update arrives to my Samsung phone
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It's already there, look for "Android 13 One UI 5.0" videos on YouTube. The meme with Samsung and the updates is from the times when they were competing with Windows Phone. Now they're reasonably quick with them AND have even longer support than the Pixels (4 OS updates and 5 years of patches)!
Granted that's for PHONES and possibly for the mid-high end series, the tablets were a complete shitfest, at least up to until the last 1-2 generations; don't know about the very recent (and eye bleedingly expensive)
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The last OS major upgrade came for my Samsung phone 8 months after it did for the Pixels.
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Well, it might very well happen that surprisingly the Pixels get out of support before Galaxy's and you'd get updates on the Samsung well beyond that. As for the new stuff, it might be more of a feature than a bug if others are doing the beta testing before you. There are people royally pissed about Android 12 https://issuetracker.google.co... [google.com] and hanging on for dear life on Android 11. That is the ones that had the chance to get old enough devices that came with 11, because devices shipping even as of Febr
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I never jump on a new OS...I appreciate those that do that might find a bug.
We are all the beta testers now.
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I never jump on a new OS...I appreciate those that do that might find a bug.
We are all the beta testers now.
It's from Google, so... ya.
Meh (Score:1)
Head tracking (Score:2)
Head tracking? When will the privacy shenanigans end?
Seriously this looks like a bullet item for any company that wants to make a big push into the so-called metaverse:
Efforts at virtual reality focus overwhelmingly on the visuals, to the point that VR becomes purely a battle of PPI and refresh rates.
android 13 (Score:2)
Do it come with the trucker hat?