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Android One Is Anything But Dead, Google Reaffirms With Xiaomi Mi A1 (ndtv.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: Google executives shared the stage with Xiaomi chiefs at a media event in New Delhi on Tuesday as the Chinese phone maker unveiled its "new flagship" Mi A1 smartphone. Google's presence at the event was essential. Xiaomi's Mi A1 is the latest phone to be launched under Google's Android One program, a three-year-old initiative from Google, which in the past year has been presumed dead by many. It's anything but that, Google executives said. The Xiaomi Mi A1 smartphone features a 5.5-inch full-HD (1080x1920 pixels) display. It also offers a duo of 12-megapixel rear cameras, one with telephoto capability and 2X optical zoom feature. On the front, for the selfie enthusiasts is a 5-megapixel shooter. The dual-SIM capable Mi A1 smartphone houses a Snapdragon 625 octa-core SoC, 4GB of RAM, 64GB internal storage, IR blaster, a 3080mAh battery, a fingerprint scanner, modems for 4G LTE bands in its gold- and black-coloured thin, full-metal unibody form factor. It is priced at $235, and will be available in dozens of markets including Mexico, India, Indonesia, Russia, and Singapore.
People who are serious about security would NEVER buy a propritary device that is single-sourced from a company that is VERY aggressive about remaining the single source, and also very closed source themselves. The 'secure enclave' scheme is 100% pure 'security through obscurity'.
That emporer isn't wearing a single fucking item of clothing. Fuck Apple.
This is censorship, modding down an on-topic post with zero rebuttal.
No, no it is not. It's called Slashdot. If you want your own blog, with hookers and blackjack, run your own site, noob.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Unfortunately this "racist" turned into an insult, vs what it really means. Like the previous generation used terrorist, or communist a generation before that.
However the problem it dilutes the seriousness of these labels. Where we had people marching down the street with torches, with armed "security" to intimidate anyone who would stand up to them. Calling someone a racist because of their Phone OS preference is really diminishing the impact of the the danger that racist represent.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.