Humane's AI Pin hit the reviewers' rounds this week. Now it's time for the meta cut. Join the Android Police podcast as we rack the dominoes back from execution to concept and see if there's any salvation to be had from the fall. Also, loads of Android news, an e-reader to best the Kindle perhaps, and a Vampire Weekend album review. Hit the decks.

01:36 | This Our Future?

• Google I/O 2024: What to expect and when it’s happening
• humane-ai-pin-is-the-solution-to-none-of-technologys-problems-120002469.html">Humane reviews are out, and they are bad

27:54 | Droidy

• Google finally launches its Find My Device network
• Dbrand just spent 24 hours doubling down on racist remarks before apologizing
• YouTube has a new design on desktop and everyone is mad about it
• Apple may not end up beating Android at the emulation game after all
• Google’s AI Magic Editor is coming to all devices for free, but there's a catch

47:54 | Read This

• Android 15 Beta 1 is here, but many details are still under wraps
• Kobo's new color e-readers add some saturation to your reading
• Only God Was Above Us by Vampire Weekend Reviews and Tracks - Metacritic
• The Pixel 8 Pro was all I needed to create my solar eclipse memories

Excerpts from The Verge, Pornhub, The Punisher (Netflix via Shabeebstyle), Cyberpunk 2077 (CD: Projekt Red), and Infraction and Aim To Head.

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The 100th Android Police podcast is everything you've wanted it to be. Google this, Android that, Samsung's broken, OnePlus's broken, and we finally see what's inside The Hatch from Lost. Gemini takes a page from a BAFTA vote that has gone completely insane and the streaming industry makes money on top of showbuilding practices that are incredibly destructive to viewer habits (and, thus, their revenue), but at least Skynet's incompetent intelligence means we get to live another day, folks. Nothing gets cut. Everything's here.

This is the show you've been waiting for.

01:54 | Spatially Aware

• Filterworld by Kyle Chayka: Penguin Random House
• Testing the New Apple Vision Pro Spatial Persona - MacRumors

07:49 | I've Paid Money For Worse AI

• Google may charge you for generative AI search in the future
• Lara Croft Crowned Most Iconic Video Games Character of All Time, According to BAFTA Poll | BAFTA
• Sonic the Hedgehog Chia Pet® - Chia.com

27:05 | How Many Ways Can Google Piss People Off?

• Google Podcasts is dead but Google’s own podcast isn't on YouTube Music
• Google Podcasts is gone — and YouTube Music can’t replace it - The Verge

41:16 | Update Downgrade

• Some Pixel owners are experiencing network issues after Google's March 2024 update
• Google's premium Pixel 9 plans feel too big, too soon
• Samsung's latest update is causing headaches for Galaxy S23 users
• OnePlus just launched a worse version of Magic Eraser for its phones

1:02:32 | Get Lost

• Striking numbers: writers work less with streaming TV (axios.com)

Excerpts from Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (New Line Cinema), hbomberguy (via Sven Bender), retsupurae, Top15s, Blizzard Entertainment (via vannero).

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Google's had it out for the Android Police podcast all this time. No, not in the ways in which it's made it difficult for us to write the stories we talk about on the show, but with how its grown its phones. Android. Nexus. Pixel. All of it. The bulk of this 99th episode — which does not contain bonus.mp3">four minutes of cut-out frolicking midshow banter between our hosts — will cover the latest we're hearing about the Pixel 9 very big triple threat XL with a cherry on top. Man, it's like we've been an Android podcast, right?

01:19 | Pixel Pursuit

• New Pixel 9 renders point to 3 Google flagships coming this fall
• Gemini Nano is coming to the Pixel 8 after all

33:09 | SUX (Stupid User Experience)

• The Disney Plus-Hulu merger is way more than a streaming bundle

42:10 | Heady Stuff

• Transformed by AI: How generative artificial intelligence could affect work in the UK – and how to manage it | IPPR
• ec57-11ee-81a4-2fea6ce37fcb.html">Ontario school boards sue Snapchat, TikTok and Meta for $4.5 billion, alleging they're deliberately hurting students (thestar.com)
• (NEW) Apple Vision Pro - 256GB (woot.com)

Our regular hosts are Daniel Bader and Will Sattelberg. Our editor is Jules Wang.

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The Department of Justice serves Apple a whopper of an antitrust suit, the consequences of which will take years to suss out and reverberate with impacts on competitors, developers, and consumers. So, what do we see from the shores of Android? The Android Police podcast is all about insights this week, some of them from our interview with Eric Migicovsky of Beeper and Pebble fame. And then we get broken down by a hilariously bad Moto G that should've been kept back in the dusty drawers of 2015.

02:03 | US v. Apple

• US sues Apple for iPhone monopoly, points to iMessage and Apple Watch dominance, among other tactics
• The US v. Apple monopoly case was inevitable, Beeper's CEO explains
• Five takeaways from the huge US antitrust lawsuit against Apple - The Verge

38:21 | Didn't Moto Have a Good Year?

• Moto G Power 5G (2024) review: Simply not good enough

Our regular hosts are Daniel Bader and Will Sattelberg. Our editor is Jules Wang.

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Marques Brownlee commissions a tiny little coffin into which he places the ZenFone 10 and we're over here trying to trigger the next wave of tiny little phones. As people keep saying, time is a flat circle. That conversation plus another notch in the epoch that is Samsung's management in mobile decline, the big TikTok sovereignty debate, and a couple of tangents on the artist formerly known as Twitter, late-90's MMOs, and tin rooves on this Android Police podcast!

01:19 | TikTok

• The House has taken a key step toward banning TikTok in the US
• Is TikTok safe to use?
• Montana's statewide TikTok ban awaits governor's signature (from April 2023)
• Chances of a national TikTok ban grow with upcoming bill in Senate (from March 2023)
• TikTok is now banned from devices used in the US House of Representatives (from December 2022)

20:50 | Subspace

• Continuum - Meet people from all over the world...then kill them

25:56 | Beeg and Leetle

• The Pixel 8 feels small after the Galaxy S24 Ultra, but I want a truly tiny phone
• Asus Zenfone 11 Ultra review: just another big phone - The Verge

42:41 | eX-popular

• Twitter is becoming a 'ghost town' of bots as AI-generated spam content floods the internet - ABC News (Australia)

47:11 | Last Call

• Samsung isn't bringing its Pixel 8a competitor to the US this year
• The Google I/O 2024 puzzle has been solved, and now we have a date

Our regular hosts are Daniel Bader and Will Sattelberg. Our editor is Jules Wang.

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Man, since when did Google's pre-release tracks of Android return to just utter garbage? And how much longer can Apple sustain its flat-footed outrage against the Digital Markets Act? We're firing some quick shots on the Android Police podcast this week to tackle some touchstones that are carrying the conversation in our mobile sphere for the days and weeks ahead.

02:56 | Scatterdroid

• Google's March Feature Drop is here, but not for you
• Android 14 QPR3 Beta 2 is here, but you should be careful sideloading

17:03 | Acid Apple

• Epic Games just got unbanned by Apple — again - The Verge
• I tested Apple’s EU-only iOS 17.4, and it doesn't feel any closer to Android (yet)
• Switching from iPhone to Android will get much easier next year

32:28 | Flash Fry

• The Pixel 8a might cost nearly as much as Google's 2022 flagship
• Another Nintendo DS emulator bites the dust following the folding of Yuzu

Will was on the Android Faithful podcast this week if you want more!

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Mobile World Congress has adjourned for another year and the Android Police podcast is here to run through the minutes as trapsed from hall to hall looking for what tech companies are saying is their best for 2024. Is the Galaxy Ring going to deliver on its hype? How many times can Motorola do a bendy wristphone before it gets old? And what's with all these 5G flip phones that aren't foldables? Will joins Manuel Vonau and Dominic Preston this week to sort it out.

05:30 | The Show

• Best of MWC 2024: Android Police’s awards for the world’s biggest mobile show
• The world's biggest mobile show is more concept than ever
• Energizer just slapped a phone into a powerbank
• Motorola's bendy smartphone is a futuristic dead end
• Xiaomi 14 Ultra changes the camera but not much else
• The OnePlus Watch 2 was just practically announced
• OnePlus Watch 2 review: Worth it for the battery alone
• 7 new things we've learned about the Samsung Galaxy Ring
• A Barbie flip phone is coming later this year
• This phone was made for the worst person you know

Our hosts this week are Will Sattelberg, Manuel Vonau, and Dominic Preston (check out his Substack for Barcelona foodie picks!). Our editor is Jules Wang.

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Yes, we've seen your comments about how we at the Android Police podcast can get so down on the topic our site is all about, but hey: you'd be distressed about the ecosystem, too, if you had the numbers we're looking at and not much corporate steering power in the backseat. So, on this episode, we chat about the Xiaomi 14 Ultra, the refinement of the Pixel Fold 2, and Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth. And maybe we'll be a little sad, then hopeful about Android while we're at it.

03:34 | Slow week, huh?

• The Google Pixel 6 Pro's overheating issues are now a legal matter
• First Pixel Fold 2 renders confirm Google is shaking up its design

15:52 | Mind over matter

• Seven different iPhone models outsold every Android phone last year
• Apple reveals new details about Spotify’s business as possible EU fine nears | TechCrunch

34:48 | The closers

• 14-ultra-combines-a-1-inch-camera-sensor-with-four-ai-imaging-models-131127654.html?guccounter=1">Xiaomi 14 Ultra combines a 1-inch camera sensor with four AI imaging models
• Wyze is once again caught in security incident affecting thousands

Our regular hosts are Daniel Bader and Will Sattelberg. Our editor is Jules Wang.

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This week on the Android Police podcast, we talk all about the first Android 15 developer preview despite the fact that, at the time of recording, we had barely an idea about what its best features were going to be. Of all things to be part of a Friday news dump, it had to be new software. Plus, further ruminations on generative AI, gaming, and why you need to chill out about the Galaxy S24's display.

02:46 | Android 15

• Android 15’s first developer preview is here
• How to easily install the Android 15 developer preview on your Pixel
• Android 15 leaves Snapdragon Pixels behind, and I'm sad
• Android 15 finally lets you disable keyboard haptics
• Android 15’s new Notification cooldown will silence alert spam automatically
• Android 15's timeline plans to get back on track
• Android 15 gets a mention in Google's latest Easter egg
• Android 15 sticks with Android 14's space theme for some reason

20:23 | Gemini 1.5

• Google Gemini is ready to level up after just two months
• OpenAI introduces Sora, its text-to-video AI model - The Verge

44:12 | Other News

• Microsoft: four Xbox-exclusive games are coming to PS5 and Nintendo Switch - The Verge
• The Galaxy S24's first update brings a needed fix for your dull display colors
• The Samsung Galaxy S24 could be suffering from even more display issues
• The Nothing Phone 2a is launching on March 5
• Amazon Prime Video's ads are joined by worse video quality

Our regular hosts are Daniel Bader and Will Sattelberg. Our editor is Jules Wang.

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This week's Android Police podcast is a heady, tough one for us, but it's one we have to do because the news and business cycles dictate it. Google climbs up yet another rung on its ambitions of AI domineering and we're taking the time to ask the hard questions that have been pounding around for years. We might answer them, if not for you, for ourselves. Also on the docket, some quaint little Pixel rumors, a reviewer's review of his review of the OnePlus 12R, and a whole lot more.

02:21 | Our Business

• Google's inconsistent Pixel experience makes its phones impossible to recommend
• OnePlus 12R review: A real flagship killer for $500

19:27 | Gemini, Man

• Google Bard is dead, long live Google Gemini
• With Gemini, Google's inability to properly brand products is more apparent than ever
• Using the Gemini app automatically disables Google Assistant on Android
• Google Gemini is promising, but it can't replace Assistant just yet
• Google Gemini doesn't have these Assistant features yet
• Heads up: Gemini Advanced is only available to the main family member
• Google Gemini is expanding to more regions next week
• What is Google Gemini?

48:21 | Hard Worn

• First Pixel Fold 2 leaks show a radical new design for Google's foldable
• Google's new Android 14 beta hints at the Pixel Tablet 2
• Google could jump straight to a Tensor G4 for the Pixel Fold 2
• New Nothing Phone 2a leak is all business in the front, nothing in the back
• OnePlus compares seven years of OS updates to a moldy sandwich
• Samsung uses lower quality titanium than Apple on its flagship phone
• fox-and-warner-bros-discovery-to-launch-joint-sports-streaming-platform-this-year.html">ESPN, Fox, Warner Bros. to launch joint sports streaming platform (cnbc.com)
• pops-6percent-in-premarket-after-epic-games-eras-tour-announcements.html">Disney shares notch best day in three years after Q1 2024 earnings (cnbc.com)

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