{"id":4375,"date":"2022-05-15T11:47:17","date_gmt":"2022-05-15T21:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/?p=4375"},"modified":"2022-05-15T11:47:17","modified_gmt":"2022-05-15T21:47:17","slug":"mobileviews-podcast-406-google-rants-rectangular-is-the-new-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/15\/mobileviews-podcast-406-google-rants-rectangular-is-the-new-round\/","title":{"rendered":"MobileViews Podcast 406: Google rants; Rectangular is the new round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MobileViews Podcast 406: Google rants; Square is the new round in a digital world\" allowtransparency=\"true\" height=\"150\" width=\"100%\" style=\"border: none; min-width: min(100%, 430px);\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/player-v2\/?i=yeh9n-12280f3-pb&#038;from=pb6admin&#038;share=1&#038;download=1&#038;rtl=0&#038;fonts=Arial&#038;skin=1&#038;font-color=&#038;logo_link=episode_page&#038;btn-skin=7\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/pixelwatch-sq-is-new-round.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"278\" height=\"274\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4376\" \/><br \/>\nJon Westfall tolerates my Google rants in this podcast<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Google rant #1<br \/>\nI remembered why (1) I have only bought Google branded Nexus or Pixel devices over the years &#8211; consistency &#038; reasonable updates. Why I won&#8217;t be getting a Samsung tablet for my Doodle-a-Day project<br \/>\nThe Samsung Tab S7+&#8217;s S pen is an active Bluetooth device that has features not available in other Samsung Tab devices like the similarly named S7 FE<br \/>\nThe S7+ keyboard has a touchpad. The S7 FE keyboard does not<br \/>\nThe S6 Lite also has an S-Pen and will be on sale at Costco later this week for $280. However, the S6 Lite was released in 2020 and while it will get Android 12, next year&#8217;s Android 13 will be the last update available for this device<\/li>\n<li>Google rant #2<br \/>\nI remembered why I hate the Lenovo USI stylus for the Lenovo Chromebook Flex 5 so much. The stylus lost connectivity with the Chromebook several times while trying to use it for tonight&#8217;s doodle. I had to reboot the Chromebook to get it to work. And, the image somehow flipped upside down after I finished the doodle. Infinite Painter (an Android app running on the Chromebook) doesn&#8217;t appear to have a rotate function. Neither the app nor the Chromebook settings appears to have a palm-rejection option. This led to an annoying doodle session.<\/li>\n<li>Google rant #3:<br \/>\nGoogle I\/O 2022<br \/>\nGoogle announced a new Android Pixel tablet after exiting the market in 2019<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/5\/11\/23065055\/google-android-tablet-pixel-io-release-date\">Google\u2019s Pixel team is making an Android tablet<\/a><br \/>\nBut, wait, it won&#8217;t be available until 2023! Presumably around the time of the next Google I\/O event. So, I won&#8217;t be getting an Android tablet for my Doodle-a-Day project in the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TputqX4U_8k\">Google Pixel tablet 2023 (YouTube video)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/google-pixel-watch-old-chipset-rumors\/\">Google&#8217;s Pixel Watch might end up using a four-year-old chip<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=U3DNz5asasA&#038;t=616s\">Google Pixel Watch 2022 digital bezel is huge<\/a>\n<p>&#8220;Square is the new round&#8221; in a digital world <\/li>\n<li>Jon\u2019s Discovery: <a href=\"https:\/\/multipass.run\">Canonical Multipass<\/a> &#8211; great for spinning up VMs and then learning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ansible.com\">Ansible<\/a> to deploy \/ set up an instance<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2022\/05\/google-created-open-source-maintenance.html\">Google Open Source Maintenance Team<\/a>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opensource.google\/\">Google Open Source<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Available via <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/music\/listen?u=0&#038;gclid=COid8dLi6s0CFQrQfgodJ_8CsA&#038;gclsrc=ds#\/ps\/Ioaoswyblmdonyb42jg6stsl6om\">Google Music Podcasts<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/mobileviews.com-podcast\/id301171904?mt=2\">Apple iTunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\u201chttps:\/\/www.audible.com\/pd\/MobileViewscom-Podcast-Podcast\/B08K565TQS?qid=1640555789&#038;sr=1-1&#038;ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1&#038;pf_rd_p=83218cca-c308-412f-bfcf-90198b687a2f&#038;pf_rd_r=TXEJVWB2VW471GJ9XQQ0\u201d<\/a>MobileViews Podcast from Audible.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Westfall tolerates my Google rants in this podcast Google rant #1 I remembered why (1) I have only bought Google branded Nexus or Pixel devices over the years &#8211; consistency &#038; reasonable updates. 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