Blind Android Users Podcast

Welcome to Episode185

For this week, your team dives into Android15Beta3, where we highlight some of the “what’s new” as well as touching on Talkback15 that comes bundled with Android15beta3.

In this week’s “app of the week” segment, we take a look at a unique app manager called “Inure” byHamza Rizwan  that gives you a 15-day trial and then in order to keep using it with its pro features, you would need to purchase the Unlocker for $7.49.

For this week’s “tip of the week,” we highlight the new feature in Chrome called “Listen to this page,” a server-side push out.

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Welcome to Episode184

For this week, your team dives into Android 14 QPR3 (June2024 Pixel feature-drop).

We also highlighted the June security patch with its 50 fixes including some severe vulnerabilities in the way of a Zero-Day vulnerability.

The “Security Bulletin” details the categories of severity.

In the Spotlight segment, we highlight the Galaxy Watch FE, the One UI6Beta for the watch6-series for users in the U.S. and South Korea.

The Pixel watches also got a June update.

In this week’s “app of the week” segment, we take a look at “Audify Notification Reader” by “Codeseed.”

For this week’s “tip of the week,” we show you how to add your medical info on the lock screen of your Samsung phone.

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Welcome to Episode 183

For this week’s Announcements, we salute Google’s Android15 Beta2.2, where 6 issues were resolved.

We continue our exploration of the Settings section of Samsung One UI6.x, with this week’s focusing on the “General Management” section where we discuss “date and time” and “Keyboard.”

In this week’s “app of the week” segment, we take a look at “Audify read aloud web browser” by “Tangerine Software House.”

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Welcome to Episode182

We continue our exploration of the Settings section of Samsung One UI6.x, with this week’s focusing on the “General Management” section where we discuss the three items found in “Languages.”

In this week’s “app of the week” segment, we take a look at “Voice Reader reads texts aloud.” By “kapron-ap.”

Kareen brings us another entry in the Jieshuo series as she reviews the “Customization of symbols.”

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Welcome to Episode181

Ed is on a long vacation, will be back in July.

Monday is memorial day in US.

We return to our exploration of the Settings section of Samsung One UI6.x, with this week’s focus on the “Apps section.”

In the “Spotlight” segment, we highlight the changes of both the Android14QPR3Beta2.2 and the Android15Beta2.1

In the “app of the week” segment, we make the complicated uncomplicated by showing you how to choose your preferred voice in the “Speechify” app.

Kareen brings us another entry in the way of some Jieshuo functions as she reviews the “Jieshuo's Time, Battery, Network, Location and Lighting Announcement Functions” found in the app.

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 Google took to the stage to showcase its AI during Google IO2024, where it shone the light on Gemini.

 In the heels of day 1 of Google IO2024, Android15Beta2 dropped for Pixel phones that qualify and alongside that, the beta opened for other manufacturers.

 In Spotlight1, the crew discussed what went down during Google IO2024.

 In our Spotlight2, John reviews the Walmart 2024 Google TV.

 For the “app of the week” segment, we highlight “Caption Call,”—an app intended for those who are deaf or hard-of-hearing and live in the United States of America.

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This week, we talk about the Google 8A and set up the onn. TV streaming device from Walmart.

Thank you to everyone who entered our competition to win a promo code for the Quickify app, and thank you again to the developer for making the codes available. We’ll be in touch with the winners shortly.

It’s a double bill this week. Firstly, we talk about the Google Pixel 8a. Then, John sets up the onn. Google TV 4K streaming device.

Warren demonstrates the notetaking app, Upnote.

Karene shows us how to re-enable notification categories in Samsung One UI 6.1.

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This episode shines the light on “Quickify” and electronic reading app and what it can do.

In the “Announcements” segment, WhatsApp takes center stage as it battles with the Indian supreme court about end to end encryption and threatens to pull out of India.

On the heels of that, the Samsung Good Lock is highlighted as it is now available on the Play Store for phones that qualify.

The developer of Quickify has given some codes for redeeming to Quickify pro subscription for our lucky winners.

For the code, email us at.

[email protected]

winners will be randomly selected.

you will get your code after we announce your names in the next week’s announcement segment.

In the Spotlight segment, we caught up with Stan Kruglik, the developer of the “Quickify” app, an inclusive app that supports the reading of electronic books, RSS feeds, videos etc.

We highlight its TTS read-out capabilities and the fact that the Dev is working on AI features.

Warren demoed this app in episode 171.

For the “app of the week” segment, we highlight “Moye Launcher”—A productivity launcher.

Kareen brings us a demo of Timer additional sound effects and the answer call function.

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This episode is all about apps. This is our “2nd Quarter 2024 App Bonanza” episode.

In the “Announcements” segment, we paid homage to Google’s Android 15 Beta 1.1 and 1.2 dropped on April 22nd and April 25th.

We also highlight the long-over-due ability to transfer an ongoing Google Meet call from one device to another without any interruption.

In this Episode, we bring you the following apps:

“Norton Genie AI Scam Detector” learn to ignore those fake emails, messages from WhatsApp and the like.

Next up, “YouTube Studio” (Learn to manage your YouTube account using the official YouTube app.

In the heels of “YouTube Studio,” your next app is the “Samsung Kids,” an app intended for managing kids access.

Moving on, the next app is an app called “"mAadhaar," an app from the Indian government that is the equivalence of the Social Security Administration in the U.S.

Our last app for this 2nd Quarter 2024 “App Bonanza” is the  “Plants Research Pro,” by “Yukod Software.”

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This week, we hear about an exciting new games platform and have a review of the Google Nest Hub (2nd Gen).

·        Our second app bonanza of the year is on 27 April.

Please do send us demos of your favourite apps via email.

·        It looks like Google is bringing deeper integration between hardware and software particularly from an AI perspective, and we discuss this briefly.

It’s a double bill this week.

Firstly, Anette and Henry join us from an exciting new games platform, AudioCat, and give us a sneak peak of what we can expect when it launches next month.

Then, we have a review of the Google Nest Hub (2nd Gen).

Warren shows us how to enable dark mode on Google Chrome.

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