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Portable Motorola Edge 40 Neo Mini-Review

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by Gareth Halfacree, 18 Jan 2024.

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  1. Gareth Halfacree

    Gareth Halfacree WIIGII! Lover of bit-tech Administrator Super Moderator Moderator

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    Got a silent update to the Moto Camera app, and an OS patch up to 1 February 2024 security patch level with the usual "bug fixes and performance improvements" totally-unhelpful patch notes.

    It's not massively sunny today, but it's potentially fixed. Maybe.

    I took a couple of pictures outside, with a sheet of paper in my outstretched hand: despite auto-HDR still being forced-on, it didn't fire (no _HDR suffix in the filename.)

    Indoors, it fired - but a white sheet of paper remained white.

    autohdrfixedmaybe.jpg

    Fingers crossed they've actually fixed it - even if auto-HDR *still* resets to on every time you close the camera app...
     
    Gareth Halfacree, 26 Mar 2024
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  2. Gareth Halfacree

    Gareth Halfacree WIIGII! Lover of bit-tech Administrator Super Moderator Moderator

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    Got the Android 14 update earlier in the week...

    ...and, apparently, Motorola took the opportunity to silently install Facebook on there with it. The buggers.

    I'd already uninstalled Facebook, which was a pre-installed stock app. I'd also disabled the Meta App Installer, Meta Services, and anything else with Meta in it (apart from WhatsApp, 'cos I use WhatsApp). I'd *also* disabled Motorola's app installer, and a bunch of other Motorola stuff I neither needed nor wanted. (I've also disabled the Google system app responsible for all the AI features, so none of the new Android 14 features actually work for me - which, frankly, is just the way I want it. Not today, Satan^WGoogle Research!)
     
    Gareth Halfacree, 5 Jul 2024
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  3. bawjaws

    bawjaws Multimodder

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    My eldest has a Moto, er, something, and it's really a hell of a good phone for just north of £110, but one thing that I absolutely hate about it is the volume of bloatware Motorola ship it with. And it's like whack-a-mole as you purge the bloat only for it to reappear with the next update.

    Google are pish and do a lot of shitty stuff, but at least my Pixel doesn't have too much bloatware on it. Apart from all the "official" Google crapware, of course, but the best thing about that is: if you wait long enough, Google kill everything off and it need not bother you again :D Farewell Google Podcasts, I barely knew ye!
     
    bawjaws, 5 Jul 2024
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  4. Gareth Halfacree

    Gareth Halfacree WIIGII! Lover of bit-tech Administrator Super Moderator Moderator

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    You're not wrong. My phone was still trying to sell me on the benefits of using the Google VPN in Google One, even after they'd announced they were killing off the Google VPN in Google One...

    Also: I still miss Google Reader...
     
    Gareth Halfacree, 6 Jul 2024
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  5. bawjaws

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    Oh don't get me started, I was quite displeased when the Google VPN got taken round the back of the barn and put down.

    I miss whatever the standalone music player app was called. Google Play Music maybe? Now it's rolled into YouTube Music, which is also where Podcasts has gone to die. But YT Music is an absolute abomination :D

    Google are one hell of a weird company when it comes to apps. Must be very odd working there and suddenly finding out that some other group in the office has developed a new app that is going to replace your app :D
     
    bawjaws, 6 Jul 2024
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    I don't remember where I read this, but Google engineers get encouraged to create new products and deliver to the market, but few to zero incentives for maintaining products. It's why they keep reinventing the wheel.
     
    yuusou, 6 Jul 2024
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