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Sep 24, 2020 • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Amazon announces a new Ring camera for your car. Part security camera, part dash camera. It has crash detection to automatically call emergency services if you can’t. #AmazonDevices
Here’s a huge one: it can also track a police stop. “Alexa, I’m being pulled over” and it’ll record the stop, and alert your specified contacts. That’s incredibly smart. #AmazonDevices
Considering how … cozy Amazon/Ring has been with police departments in the past, it’s quite a turn to create a product and feature so clearly meant to check the police’s power.

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Sep 24, 2020
Now, something ridiculous: the Ring Always Home Cam … it’s a goddamn drone that flies around your house with a camera. #AmazonDevices
Who the hell needs or wants this? This is so beyond necessary. #AmazonDevices
You thought Ring notifications were annoying when you hear them on everyone’s phones. Now how about A DRONE FLYING AROUND YOUR HOUSE WITH A CAMERA ON IT?
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Sep 23, 2020
Galaxy S20 Fan Edition. A new entry point to the S20 line is $699, or $300 less than the S20's MSRP. The S20, but bigger, larger battery, strategic spec cuts, tweak the cameras, and make the back plastic.

Not sure what about that is "fan" focused, but ok. digitaltrends.com/mobile/samsung…
“Fan Edition” is just a name. The real goal of this thing is to bridge the gap between the Galaxy A series and Galaxy S series. Samsung knows the S series has gotten incredibly expensive, but the A series is seen as a much lesser device. So split the difference.
The odd thing to me is where it splits those lines. It’s only $100 more than the A71 5G, but $300 less (MSRP) than the S20. And given just how similar this is to the S20 series, I’m surprised it’s not ~$850.

But as it stands, it has a chance to make the Pixel 5 look silly.
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Sep 18, 2020
Samsung’s Tab S7+ is best-used as a massive content consumption tablet, not unlike a little personal TV. But it also has this air of _productivity_ about it that … kinda feels half-baked considering the price. Full review from @AndyBoxall: digitaltrends.com/tablet-reviews…
I have the regular Galaxy Tab S7, which is smaller and $200 less, to test out as well. More thoughts from that perspective soon. But I feel it may be the one to get. It’s not a personal TV, but it’s dramatically more portable and the price almost makes sense.
The smaller screen ever-so-slightly helps with the “Android apps don’t work on tablets” issue, it has a capacitive fingerprint sensor, but otherwise has the same great specs and capabilities. And with the lower price, you can better justify the (absurdly expensive) $230 keyboard.
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Sep 17, 2020
The Motorola One 5G is a fine affordable phone. It’s a phone that retails for ~$450 but that AT&T and Verizon will deeply discount. When they do, it’s a good buy. digitaltrends.com/cell-phone-rev…
You get solid specs (although 4GB of RAM is annoying), and a big 90Hz display, which is great at this price. The cameras are actually surprisingly good too, and Motorola’s software is exceptionally good.
The only problem is the Pixel 4a 5G is going to be announced in less than two weeks, and that phone is going to trounce the Motorola One 5G. And you can buy it unlocked, away from AT&T/Verizon and their stupid bloatware and bullshit.
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Sep 15, 2020
The new iPad Air may be a better pro iPad than the iPad Pro

digitaltrends.com/mobile/ipad-ai…
(Say that 10 times fast)
When you can get the new iPad Air for $599, is it really worth spending $200 more to get the 11” iPad Pro? ProMotion is great, and so is Face ID. But that’s a big price jump, especially when you get Magic Keyboard and Apple Pencil 2 support on the Air.
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Sep 15, 2020
Microsoft Teams sure is a terrible service. Slack has nothing to worry about.
The apps are bad; crashy, slow, inconsistent across platforms.

The service is bad; minimal channel options, missing keyboard shortcuts, basically no configurability.
Also, the emoji support is hilariously bad. It seems silly, but once you’re used to awesome emoji (and custom emoji!) in Slack you really really miss it. It’s just one of those subtle ways that makes interactions on Slack feel more human.
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