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Fairphone will begin rolling out Android 14 for the Fairphone 5 soon, with a Fairphone 4 update coming in September. The update brings some usability improvements, but removes the Always Show Time and Info feature due to battery drain. buff.ly/3zMAB7B #Fairphone #Android14 #Android #Smartphones #Fairphone4 #Fairphone5

Fairphone · Android 14 is here. Here's what's changed. - FairphoneEnhanced security. More customization. Increased privacy. Android 14 is about to add even more oomph to your Fairphone experience.

In Android 14, Google managed to fuck up Bluetooth once again. It's full of audio drop-outs unless you enable Developer Options and turn on an option called "Disable Bluetooth A2DP hardware offload."

Without turning on this option, all of my Bluetooth audio devices, from my Bose earbuds, to my Bose QC headphones to the cheap Bluetooth adapter in my car, have frequent audio dropouts, I'd venture to guess because the phone is letting the device's buffer run out, but that's just a guess.

Note that Bluetooth was actually working pretty well in Android 13... this is a very recent breakage.

An update to Android 14 is set to bring support for using supported phones (like Pixel devices) as USB webcams for a laptop or desktop computer. But so far the feature seems a little half-baked, with low-quality imagery compared to 3rd-party software. androidcentral.com/apps-softwa #Android14 #Android #Webcam

Android Central · The Android 14 webcam feature makes my $1,000 Pixel 8 Pro look like a cheap cameraMy Pixel 8 Pro has an amazing camera, but you wouldn’t know it from using Android 14’s webcam feature.