Why wouldn’t you use a dedicated APK extraction app of your choice to extract the APK file, then send to another device using a file sharing method of your own choice, be it WLAN-direct or even Bluetooth, instead of using Google’s locked-in proprietary tool?
But it was originally derived from coal gas back in the 3rd quarter of the 19th century, when the first internal combustion engine for transportation application was being developed.
This is just a Linux VM just like th Crostini in ChromeOS, so I’d expect similar 40%+ performance loss compares to for example proot container through Termux running natively.
The only thing this could probably offer would be giving you better OS GUI Integration into Android, like Crostini on a ChromeOS device. But if that is needed you might as well just use an Android port or an Android equivalent of your Linux software anyway, it’s not like you’d ever want to run Matlab, GIMP or OpenFOAM on your Android phone with its tiny screen anyway LMAO
Same!!! Or niche fields of studies, although there’s a lot less serious ones of that kind lol
Ooooo that’s such a good idea!!!
Yeahhhh that’s like one of the biggest downsides of these phones, seriously if Sony price each of them $200 lower they’d be selling like hot cake since they are really all some of the last non-compromising phones if you’re also into rooting and OS mods and such.
Alternatively consider to get one of the newer ones and use it as your daily driver for better value, they are all extremely well build and you can easily use them for 4-5 years :p
Especially the gen V model also recently got their first Release of LineageOS for this model! :D
Sony Xperia 1 series is amazing, fully open bootloader, takes less than a minute to root, no artificial restriction from rooting with AOSP-like ROM, and still have both SD card and headphone jack but still flagship specs of the respective release year of each recent model lol
And nothing of value will be lost lol
Finally!
My biggest problem with bi-foldable phones so far is that they don’t actually offer enough of a screen size to really be the tablet replacement that is worth for all the downsides (like fragile screen, added weight and complexity and everything). But on the other hand it’s also just not possible to make a 10+ inches screen pocketable by folding it only once, whole still retaining an acceptable aspect ratio for both folded and unfolded forms.
Trifold is the first step towards finally having a meaningful foldable phone.
I think the problem fundamentally stems from the fact that Android development is so hardware focused nowadays because hardware makers make so much money, and people seemed to have started forgetting Android is also an OS, with its own software ecosystem, including the ecosystem of OS mods.
But we have not been seeing nearly as many news about new cool app that explores new ways to redefine functionality and UX design. There’s just not much exciting things going on in the Android software and it’s ecosystem these days it feels like, almost as if it’s not just stagneted but also somehow enshitified as a whole :(
I would not be surprised at all if this is stolen Wine/Proton/Winlator code packaged into proprietary obfuscated blobs without any license and open source attribution whatsoever.
Looking forward to seeing some investigation once it is officially released
Exactly
Yeah it’s certainly interesting that at least one vendor is trying to push for such a specific extreme niche. You do have to give up pretty much everything else for it, only 1 year software support, on buggy software made by a very small and not-resourceful company with poor software quality and support track record, no SD card slot, no IP rating, and no unlockable bootloader even so no root and not custom ROM after they end the official software support, etc.
But yes, looks like if the only thing you need is the best of the best sustained performance, this one is the best choice among all phones with this SoC.
It’s actually not entirely that simple, there are a bit more nuance in this. They definitely do trade a bit of battery longevity, but sacrificing longevity alone won’t give you 100W on a battery that typically can only do 45W, you will get it bursting into flame instead.
Rather, many of those Chinese phones that charge at super high power were double-cell or multi-cell designs. A multi-cell battery would allow you to reach much higher charging current under the same voltage while generating less heat due to lower resistance between terminals. But multi-cell batteries are inherently less space efficient than single cell batteries.
So they took different priorities and also traded space efficiency for charging speed, and of course this trade also means they have to trade other things to get back the space for battery, such as size of speakers (and therefore speaker audio quality) for example.
On the other hand many of those Chinese phones also don’t abide by standard protocols even way before PPS became a thing, and many of them required their own vendor’s proprietary charger to get the marketed charging speed, which have a VERY non-standard voltage, so that they can keep current low by raising voltage higher than standard USB/PD voltages, to keep the power high. This often also meant you need not only the vendor’s proprietary charger, but also their proprietary cable too because their non-standard charging voltage is also beyond the voltage that’s standard for USB cables. This principle is common now with PD chargers (like for charging a laptop for example), but they have been doing this way before PD protocol, so they have their own choices of voltage/current combos that are incompatible with PD protocol. And of course those Chinese companies like Xiaomi and Huawei would never give a flying F about complying to established industry standards and avoid vendor lock-in, customer rights be damned lol
You mean the circle below the cameras? That is not a button, this phone has an active cooling system, yes you heard it right. The “button looking” thing is the fan’s protective grill, and the blue “ring” is the built-in RGB lights inside shinning through the gap for air to flow through. There is another set of openings on the side of the phone that gives another opening for air to flow through.
Because of active cooling this phone has no IP rating at all. Based on benchmarks and reviews I’ve seen so far they managed to allow the GPU to have nearly no thermal throttling, with the active cooling system. However, disappointingly, it does throttle the CPU a LOT still.
Ubuntu Touch, perhaps? Lol
Hmmm it looks pretty but is it just me or Weather Master’s UI looks soooo much more iOS-like than Breezy Weather?
That’s the thing, for multitasking a foldable’s screen size is not even remotely as transformative as a 10+ or even 12 inches proper tablet, while for just the most basic “have each side for different thing”, which I guess is like the lowest possible standard we can have for multitasking, a conventional non-foldable phone doesn’t do it that much worse, you just turn your phone horizontal and do split screen in landscape orientation.
On the other hand, with a 12" proper tablet you can meaningfully have 4 or even 6 windows showing on your screen at the same time, for some real multitasking, at a moment’s notice.
My point is that current foldable phones don’t offer enough screen size, to be transformative enough to justify the long list of downside you have to deal with, like fragile screen, screen fold crease, etc.
Consider Sony Xperia 1 series then, they always have fully open policy regarding to unlocking and rooting with no deliberate restrictions whatsoever, took me less than a minute to root my Xperia 1 VI shortly after I got it. Also their very AOSP-like ROMs make modding much easier too.
Also I bet you don’t find many other flagship phones in 2024 that still have both SD card and headphone jack lol
Good thing this is at least very easy to block per-app with a Xposed module.
Although it is quite concerning indeed that there isn’t an easy and explicit way for you to be notified when an app tried to do this on its own, it would be nice to have a tool that can automatically scan an app to see if it does that