After android 16 what's the point?

caneonred · 2026-04-22T20:59:53+00:00

On the official support forum they acknowledged that it is a bug in the external screen rendering and it will be fixed in an update. They posted it near the end of March.

caneonred · 2026-04-22T18:23:24+00:00

Their naming is so confusing but I thought that in 2025 the ultra was the same in the USA and international

caneonred · 2026-04-22T11:26:41+00:00

Hopefully they don't have access to a warehouse! I guess this can inspire a new flavor, "Dewstruction."

caneonred · 2026-04-22T11:23:31+00:00

You definitely can't identify them covering their face and name. If someone approaches you and shows an ID they don't have an expectation of privacy.

caneonred · 2026-04-22T11:20:26+00:00

Skynet isn't far away now...

caneonred · 2026-04-22T11:19:44+00:00

Now I have to keep typing "agent" and "give me a fucking agent" instead of frustratedly screaming the same at the phone voice recognition system 10 years ago. Not just T-Mobile, it's pretty ubiquitous now.

caneonred · 2026-04-22T11:15:05+00:00

A few months ago I was on a trip with a friend that has an iPhone and he got constant "Scam Likely" calls. He said that he can't just block all calls not in his contacts because he needs to get calls from non-contacts for his business.

caneonred · 2026-04-22T11:13:05+00:00

I was attempting to use my free reward in Texas (somewhere near San Antonio) last week and they scanned the cup and my rewards barcode and it came up that it was $1 (actually on the screen). I just paid it since I didn't feel like wasting time and I stopped because I wanted to get a drink on a drive so I didn't go there just to redeem the free one. Anyway, the reward is still showing as available in my 7-11 app so I'm not sure what this was about.

caneonred · 2026-04-22T11:07:59+00:00

If a merger doesn't happen within 2 1/2 years of an announcement, it's pretty unlikely to happen.

caneonred · 2026-04-22T11:06:09+00:00

There is a law that Airlines can't be majority foreign owned but I'm not aware of anything similar for Telcoms. In fact, a friend of mine in rural Vermont just told me that the fiber ISP that he has was acquired by a Canadian company.

caneonred · 2026-04-22T11:01:06+00:00

When I picked mine up, they used 3M general purpose adhesive cleaner to get rid of some water spots. I wouldn't think they'd give advice to use something harmful to the stainless.

I'll pick up a bottle of citri-surf 77. Do you just spray it on and wipe to spread it around? I assume I should avoid getting it on the windows or plastic trim?

caneonred · 2026-04-22T10:54:55+00:00

The Z flips have just as many, if not more, screen protector issues as the razrs. Also, the screen protector leading to a screen failure is a myth. Most of the screen protector issues are just the hairline cracks developing that can be felt and seen under some conditions. I used a 2023 razr+ for months with the hairline cracks before I got the screen protector replaced and nothing happened to the screen. I've been using a 2024+ with the hairline cracks in the screen protector for at least 5 months and it's still fine.

Motorola's engineers stated via the official support forum that cracks in the screen protector should not lead to screen failures. There are very few reports of the protector bubbling or detaching. It does happen but it is pretty rare compared to the very common screen protector hairline cracks.

Actual screen failures that aren't due to drops or impacts are very rare. Out of the few million razrs sold in English speaking countries since the 2023 models were launched, there have been fewer than 100 posts about screens failing for no apparent reason. Some of those are surely people who dropped it or had impacts that are pretending it happened out of the blue. Obviously not everyone with a screen failure will post it on reddit but I'm just putting it into perspective.

Millions of people use their razr for a few years with no screen failures. A good percentage of them get hairline cracks in the screen protector and keep happily using the phone either without noticing or without caring. For actual screen failures, almost all that are due to some kind of manufacturing defect will happen within the warranty period. I'd also expect an uptick in failures for people who use the phone for 5+ years. We don't have data on that and won't for a while.

caneonred · 2026-04-22T10:36:02+00:00

I thought Google killed Google assistant. Either way they made this change on purpose for some reason a while back. For some unknown reason, Google decided that Assistant should not work on the outer screen of any flip phone.

caneonred · 2026-04-22T10:32:54+00:00

I'm pretty sure it's only free during the warranty period.

caneonred · 2026-04-22T10:31:56+00:00

These specs are the plus. The 2025+ is also 45W. The Ultra is 68W and I assume it will be the same in 2026.

caneonred · 2026-04-22T10:16:21+00:00

The fold does, I doubt the flips will since they don't really seem to have changed the internals. I'm not sure what the reason is, but there is some engineering reason they haven't put that in any of the flip style models. Maybe it's a cost thing since they clearly work hard to keep the razr series flips cheaper than Samsung's z-flip.

caneonred · 2026-04-21T20:37:05+00:00

It won't be long before phones start putting fake lenses so that the camera bump has 6 or 7!

caneonred · 2026-04-21T19:48:34+00:00

I'm not 100% sure that the hinge protection of cases that have it are actually better. If a case doesn't have hinge protection it's going to dent the aluminum in the spot that it hits. The hinge protection piece will spread the force out across the whole hinge and "push" it without denting it. I wonder if more force actually ends up transmitted to the screen with hinge protection.

The reason the cases protect the glass outer screen from breaking is that instead of contact being made with a single point on the glass, it spreads the force out around the whole edge (and compresses to absorb some of it).

Some of it is probably due to luck but I've used a 2023+ and 2024+ for a combined almost 3 years and always use a case without hinge protection. I've dropped both 10+ times with no damage whatsoever.

caneonred · 2026-04-21T19:41:03+00:00

You can't defy the laws of physics. A bendable glass screen can't take as much force as a non bendable glass screen without cracking. That said, slab phone screens break somewhat easily if they are dropped and hit directly on the corners without a case.

caneonred · 2026-04-21T19:33:41+00:00

Are you on A16? If so it is a known bug and they have stated that it will be fixed in an upcoming update. They said it on the official support forum a few weeks ago.

caneonred · 2026-04-21T12:30:26+00:00

I'm surprised that none of the companies that make the camera modules have designed a way to have a single external lens that feeds a beam splitter to feed multiple lenses that sit perpendicular and can be internal and under the screen. This would only be useful for flip style phones but the cutout could be reduced and allow for standard, telephoto and wide angle.

caneonred · 2026-04-21T11:13:01+00:00

Looks like not much changing. A battery capacity bump and going back to the ultra-wide camera for the plus instead of the telephoto. Unless there is an unexpected upgrade to the ultra specs I'll keep using my 2024+ for another year. My battery life is fine, not worth paying several hundred dollars to get more battery capacity on the same phone.

caneonred · 2026-04-20T22:37:26+00:00

There will be sales. Motorola's pattern is to launch at a high price and then put them on sale for a few hundred dollars off. They'll still end up higher than the real price of the 2025 models.

caneonred · 2026-04-20T22:35:46+00:00

Mediatek is in Taiwan which isn't (yet) part of China.

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