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Google may be planning to ship a major kernel upgrade to all its (Tensor-powered) pixel phones.

androiddev.social Mishaal Rahman (@MishaalRahman@androiddev.social)

Attached: 3 images Wow - Google may be planning to ship a major kernel upgrade to all its (Tensor-powered) Pixel phones! Current Tensor Pixels may be upgraded to Linux kernel 6.1, according to comments left on an AOSP patch by Google engineers. Tensor G1 and G2 Pixels currently run on Linux 5.10, ...

Good news for android overall. Hopefully, this could be extended to other OEMs by 2025 and not be optional like virtual A&Bs when it arrives.

(Meanwhile, my current smartphone running 4.19.. )

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It's all to get phones ready for Auracast as that's going to be huge.
- What's Auracast?
  
  Bluetooth broadcasting. One device will be able to stream to hundreds and thousands of devices.
  
  Surely nothing can go wrong with this
  
  It has already been implemented in hearing aids and other stuff. The standard pairing stuff applies, except now you can connect your headphones to your computer and your phone simultaneously rather than having to do the disconnect/reconnect dance every time.
  
  That sounds absolutely please no.
  
  Huh? Why not? Being able to stream multiple languages in a single cinema showing or supporting those with hearing difficulties is amazing.
  Even going to clubs and from the outside it looks like a bunch of weirdos dancing to themselves is amazing.
  
  This comment is hinged entirely on the assumption that a(more like many) for-profit business won't immediately make it a money printer to make line go up, sure the tech may be amazing and huge for accessibility but I see it getting almost immediately milked like most other new technologies.
  
  So we should, what, stop coming up with new ideas because someone might use them for bad things? I guess we should stop making new kitchen knives because you could use them for murder?
  
  No, we should legislate (and then actually enforce that legislation).
  I really don't see any other way to reign in the unchecked capitalism at this point.
  
  What exactly should we be legislating here? We're talking about an extension to existing technology that you're already familiar with - Bluetooth - to allow a one-to-many relationship instead of one-to-one.
  There's already plenty of legislation around incorrect use of radio spectrum, harvesting user data, etc. So what legislation are you referring to that's missing?
  
  That sounds too easy to pirate.
  
  It's going to be huge.
- Is this correct? I thought phones basically already supported it and have done since Android 13. Why is a whole new kernel needed for this one feature?
  
  From what I can gather, there's a bunch of optimizations for battery that should bring massive benefits

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