We discuss the latest beta releases from Samsung and Google. One UI 7.0 Beta 3 and Android 15 QPR 2 Beta 2.1.

We let you know what Android related news caught our attention at CES 2025.

We give you the details from the OnePlus winter Event and share our thoughts on the new OnePlus 13 and OnePlus 13R.

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Welcome to Episode213, our very first episode for the year 2025.

In this episode, we deliberate on Battery versus Performance. In other words, which one is better? Is it better to have a phone with a great performance, or is it better to have one that has great battery with a mid-of-the road performance?

For this week’s “APP of the week,” we demo a file-management app called “File Manager” by a developer called “File Manager Plus.”."

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We get together with some of our listeners and discuss our favorite  apps and phones of the year.

Here is Kareen's Article explaining the differences between PiccyBot and Seeing AI Video Descriptions.

Please add to this thread on Samsung Members to help us put an end to this talkBack fragmentation nonsense.

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Episode211 is a very special episode for us as we observe our 4th year in existence and we want to sincerely thank those that were able to join us in observing this milestone.

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Welcome to Episode210.

We would like to remind you that next week, Dec. 21, is our 4th anniversary celebration of the existence of Blind Android Users.

We encourage all our readers and listeners to join us in celebrating this monumental milestone.

We are joined by the crew of “Tech-Freedom” (their second appearance on our podcast) to talk about the changes that came down earlier this month and what that means for users of the app.

For this week’s “Tip of the week,” we highlight some exciting development in the way of Google’s Gemini 2.0, in which an exciting feature called "Stream Real Google AI Studio."

This feature has something we’ve been dreaming of, that is, giving us the ability to use the camera on both our phones and on the computer.

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• The countdown is on to our 4- year anniversary celebration! We will be recording on 21 December at 12PM Eastern or 9AM Pacific and you are invited to take part.  We’ll be posting a link on our usual channels closer to the time.

We discuss the December feature drop for qualifying Google Pixels, and the announcement that some phones will get upgrades for longer than previously thought.  You can read about these features at this Link.

We talk about Samsung’s One UI 7 Beta 1 which you can install on qualifying Samsung phones.

Warren demonstrates the Aggregator news RSS reader.

Karene demonstrates the OCR functions and settings of the Jieshuo screen reader.

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• The countdown is on to our 4- year anniversary celebration! We will be recording on 21 December at 12PM Eastern or 9AM Pacific and you are invited to take part.  We’ll be posting a link on our usual channels closer to the time.
• Our Youtube channel has reached 1,500 subscribers! Thank you so much for all your support.

The crew discusses the rapidly evolving world of AI and its use cases for blind people.  We discuss the AI capabilities of TalkBack and Jieshuo, implementation of AI by other blindness-specific apps such as Be My Eyes, Seeing AI, PiccyBot and Ally from Envision, and mainstream solutions on which these capabilities are built - ChatGPT and Google Gemini. Also, check out Karene’s article comparing the video description capabilities of Seein AI and Piccybot.

John shows us the new screen search reading control we now have access to as of TalkBack 15.1.

Karene demonstrates chat filters in Meta’s WhatsApp Messenger.

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Join us in 4 Weeks for our 4- year celebration. We will be recording on Dec 21st at 12PM Eastern or 9AM Pacific and you are invited to take part.

android 16 has shown itself early this year. We discuss the developer preview that just dropped this past week and what we are looking most forward to.

John shows us the new web reading controls we now have access to as of TalkBack 15.1.

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We discuss all that's new in Android 15 QPR2 Beta 1.

TalkBack 15.1 has arrived, and we share everything new we have discovered so far.

Warren demonstrates Startpage, a web browser focused on privacy.

John shows us the new ways of activating links as of TalkBack 15.1.

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• We would be delighted if everyone could join us for our 4-year anniversary on Saturday 21 December.  Please join us at noon Eastern, 5 PM UK time and 9 AM Pacific so save the date!
• Android turned 17 this week.  It can now obtain a driving licence in the UK and apparate in the Wizarding World.

This week, John concludes our look at Samsung One UI settings, demonstrating what you’ll find in About phone.

Warren brings us a demo of Listen AI, another TTS reader.

Karene demonstrates a new AI-powered feature, which will attempt to describe videos while they’re playing.

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