Android's "Swole" Era
Hands-On with the Pixel 10A, the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra and rating LLMs with Android's new Bench
Android Faithful · Tom Merritt
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Show Notes
It's the post Mobile World Congress hangover, which is the perfect time for hands-on reviews with two of the hottest phones you can get right now and Florence Ion and Jason Howell have got 'em! Oh and Ron Richards is back to hear all about it!
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00:05:55 - NEWS
- Goodbye revenue share! Google drops their cut from the Google Play store and makes other changes sooner then they had to, but why!?!?!
- Google is ranking AIs and giving developers more tools with their new Android Bench
- Quick! Check your Google Play Perks, you may have $400 off on a new Pixel 10 Pro
- PATRON PICK: Google Play begins shaming apps that are battery hogs
00:33:18 - HARDWARE
- Are you ready for the Google Pixel 10A hands-on review? Cause it' s a good one!
- How about our impressions of the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra?
- Nothing unveiled the Nothing Phone (4A) Pro and the Nothing Headphone (a) and they're both pretty rad!
- The first glimpses of the OnePlus 15T have emerged and they're intriguing! Unfortunately, OnePlus and Oppo are raising prices on everything due to market conditions
- The physical keyboard revolution continues with the daring Unihertz Titan 2 Elite!
01:03:54 - APPS
- Want a different news app? Check out Particle AI, now with a feature to turn news articles into audio podcasts
01:14:01 - COMMUNITY FEEDBACK
- Ian from the UK has a suggestion for an icon to link to a file on Google Drive
- Robert is curious if MicroSD cards could be a solution to the RAM price increase crisis?
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