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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.
Android is for those who don't care about security. Just see the recent article about bootloaders not being secure. Add to it that Android generally has poorly designed user interfaces and the user experience is incredibly clunky. App development lags well behind the iOS versions of the same apps. If you don't care about security or having a good experience, Android is fine. For those of us who do care about those things, iOS is a far better choice.
It's a range of smartphones aimed at the developing world (AKA 2nd & 3rd World) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
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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.
It will leak into the First world. The Galaxy J3 is a popular phone at WalMart and similar markets in the US. It was targeted to be a second world smartphone.
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.
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When an AC from Apple's marketing department who sits poised on his seat refreshing Slashdot and then STRIKES GOLD with a First Post of propaganda, it's bound to be controversial.
Nice play, AC shill. Ask for a raise.
$235 doesn't sound like a great idea for the developing world. I'd be quite tempted by one for those specs once LineageOS is running on it.
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The 'secure enclave' scheme is 100% pure 'security through obscurity'.
Nonsense. The secure enclave is a separate ARM core that has its own private memory and is designed so that you can write keys to it and it will do signing and encryption / decryption on your behalf, but you can't exfiltrate the keys. A similar design appears in a few Android devices, but the lack of uniformity means that most software doesn't make good use of it. There are valid criticisms of iOS device security, but this one just makes you look like an idiot.
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Apple has only had 10-20% (depending on how recent their latest device is) market share for the past couple of years. Consumers seem to have a very different idea about what they "care about" than this AC.
I happen to prefer Android as long as you have a device from a company that provides regular updates.
Agreed. Sounds like a pretty reasonably speced phone at a sensible price. Much like the Nexus line was originally. I'm still using my Nexus 4 (which runs latest android, albeit unofficial rom, perfectly well) but I'm in the market for an equivalent phone now. This could just be it.
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.
We need affordable phones that get updates and are not crap. OnePlus and Nexus used to be two such lines, but they have now gone high end.