When did they have games on tape?

One thing that you do still need root for however is proper backups. The built-in backup system is tied to Google, and it’s very limited in what it will back up, nowhere near what you can do with root backup software like Titanium Backup.

You can have a physical SIM alongside an eSIM. These days you may have to have at least one of them be an eSIM, as many phones only have one physical SIM slot.

Oops, I misread, that was a different monitor

So it’s not really a 4K 1000Hz screen then, if it’s just togglable between being a 4k 240 Hz screen and a 1080p 1000 Hz screen.

How the heck do people with 4TB SD cards do data hygiene wipes of their medium before crossing international borders?

They don’t

It’s not just about quality (AAC is perfectly fine quality-wise), it’s IMHO more about the extreme latency, and the fact that they have to to drop down to terrible-sounding HSP/HSP when using the microphone, since A2DP is monodirectional. Sucks that they don’t support LE Audio.

Proper firewall

What services does it have that are listening on external interfaces?

It’s not necessarily counterproductive, it depends on what you’re trying to accomplish

Rooted users can probably bypass this issue with some Magisk modules the same way they do with GPay and banking apps.

That doesn’t work anymore due to hardware attestation

It might be Jak & Dexter: TPL.

AAC-LC is patent free too nowadays (not HE-AAC, but that’s mainly useful for low-bitrate stuff).

Pretty much everything plays AAC though (unless it’s some cheap mp3 player)

I hope it actually has gyros, so XBOX can finally get gyro aim. I don’t play on XBOX, but maybe support for that in XBOX controllers would make devs more inclined to support it. But the document only mentions an accelerometer.

Also, what’s up with controllers dropping face button colors? The PS5 did the same thing.

17:00 pm? So, 5:00 the next day?

I find it ridiculous to have a car tied to a specific mobile OS

I don’t think it’s that meaning of “private” that’s meant here. It’s private as in personal, rather than an organization

Why does it call XMPP “Chat Standard”?

From the perspective of private users, WhatsApp is the benchmark

Not entirely, there is also Discord

I’m actually in Europe, so no need for that for me. But it doesn’t have great specs, nor apparently great security, so I’m leaning towards a Pixel with GrapheneOS for my next phone.

A bit late. It’s more that two years old, and it’s based on a SoC that was a year old when it was launched

My house doesn’t even exist on OpenStreetMap, so I don’t have much faith in it

It was, nowadays it’s been replaced by Fenix

But they’re way too buggy to be considered premium

Same with Fairphone. They’re specifically made to be repairable, and the Fairphone 4 is supposed to be water resistant. Too bad the specs aren’t great.