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My wife has had her old pixel for a while now and after Verizon dropped it's messaging app she just migrated over to Google. It took a while for her to realize that she wasn't getting a text notification. I had to Google how to set up a notification sound for her but her phone beeps at her now.

Reviews Vivo X Fold3 Pro Global... WOW!

Confirmation that the Global version, (PD2337F), of the Vivo X Fold3 Pro will work fine on the Global networks for most countries...

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However, those in the USA will need to check with their carriers first...

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Prevent forced system update

It's important for me to understand what "bloatware" you're talking about. Did you get your phone from a cell provider? If so, they are notorious for pre-installing and re-installing bloatware... er, "featured content" - Verizon being one of the worst offenders. Most of it (games and their own VZ garbage) can generally be uninstalled or disabled. It's one of the main reasons I always buy my phone unlocked, straight from Samsung.

Here's the downside to disabling updates:

Android is a complex operating system and there are some pretty naughty people out there in Internet Land, looking for vulnerabilities in the Android code they can exploit. There are also good guys trying to do the same thing, so they can alert Google. It's a race: when the good guys find a problem, a security patch is then sent out to manufacturers and carriers to close that vulnerability. Unless you never get online with your smartphone, either on Wi-Fi or cellular data, those are really important security patches that are included in the regular updates that go out. If you deliberately disable updates because you don't want to deal with bloatware or OS features you don't need, it's only a matter of time before your phone is so out of date that it becomes a target for the naughty guys. Anything from keyloggers to a complete takeover of the device is possible. There may be better ways to solve your problem.

Battery life expectancy

Yes because having the hotspot turned on means the wifi radio in the phone is on and that will draw more power even with no devices connected. How much more is hard to say but anytime you have the individual radios enabled (cell, wifi, Bluetooth, NFC) it will increase battery drain to some degree. Data being passed will increase the drain more.
To find out the actual impact on the battery you would have to try it but as I already stated it would be best to have the phone on a charger while using the hotspot.
Ah, thanks for that, Fox Mulder. In future, I shall not switch the Hotspot on until I am ready to use it (even though sometimes, I forget to take my phone upstairs to the study, and must go back down for it). When the tethered computer is in use, the phone is always put on the charger.
With appreciation for your help,
S.

Canta can't

That might be. I think, though, that the real reason was that some silly idiot didn't make sure that Shizuku was actually running before attempting to use Canta. Whether it really cans those nasty, needless apps shoved at us mainly by carriers or just removes them from active duty is another question...

Tesla Phone coming soon.

And if it fails a week after you get it the staff will invent excuses to deny you warranty cover (what Tesla have been doing this year with a lot of new cars, widespread enough that it's clearly a company policy).

And if it's anything like what he's done with his social media company, everything you type will be used to train his Large Language Model and you won't be able to opt out of that from the phone itself.

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