Blind Android Users Podcast

It’s a double bill this week. First, we talk about the latest beta of the Android 14 Quarterly Platform Release (or QPR) for eligible Pixel phones. Next, in our next instalment looking at Samsung UI, John demonstrates the battery settings.

John shows us how to change the default spell checker on a Samsung device.

Finally, John demonstrates how to spell check using the Talkback Braille Keyboard.

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Welcome to episode 154 the 10th entry in our “Samsung One UI) series.

In a typical “Google style,” Google surprised us by pushing out QPRBeta2.1 whose release notes can be found at this URL. In normal circumstances, QPR2 doesn’t commence until the month of January; but like everything else this year, things got turned upside down!

We continue our journey through the Samsung One UI wherein, we discuss the Display Settings.

We interview Dipti Prasad from Nobaflix a leading OTT for app mainly for Visually challenged individuals.

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For our “app of the week,” we introduced you to an online radio app called “Radio G.”

For the “Tip of the week,” we looked at how you can go about customizing the notification sound for an individual contact within your telegram contacts.

Our friend, Joshua Schramm took us down the memory lane of his Android journey as he intimated us with how that journey began for him a couple years ago.

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We continue our exploration of Samsung settings.  John demonstrates the notifications and Do Not Disturb settings.

Ed brings us a demo of the much vaunted new artificial intelligence functionality – Be My AI – in the Be My Eyes app.

In our next video on Jieshuo, Karene takes a look at traditional vs multicolumn menus.

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Welcome to episode 152 the 4th and final “App Bonanza” for the year 2023.

In this episode, we bring you lots of app demos.

First up, Austin takes you on a tour of the app for the popular GSM Arena which makes it easier to navigate the site through the app as to using the browser.

In the heels of that app, Warren demos a podcast catcher app with a great potential called “Podurama.”

Next, Kareen demos “Control Screen orientation”.

John Dyer brings us the highly customizable “MacroDroid.”

Up next, Austin returns with another app, this time, it’s a popular train-travel app in India called “UTS—Unreserved Ticket System.”

For football (Soccer) lovers, Salih demonstrated “FotMob.”

In keeping an eye on your battery and how it charges and its health and all of that, Warren returns with “Charge Meter.”

Closing up the “app Bonanza” in a party-style-like fashion, Brandon Hennis and his crew bring us “Audio Relay.”

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Welcome to episode 151, where we continue our journey through the Samsung One UI.

In our ANDROID BASICS segment, as we journey through system Settings, this week we shine the light on “Sounds and Vibration.”

For the second part of the Android Basics, we congratulate Android and the Android Market (Now Play Store) for turning 15.

We also salute OnePlus for it’s lunch of the OnePlus Open.”

Along those lines, we equally pay homage to Xiaomi who ditches its infamous MI UI for the “HyperOS.” And releasing their lates phone, the “Xiaomi 14Pro.” With Xiaomi14.

For this week’s “Tip of the week,” we visit copying text in both an edit field as well as copying from the web using Talkback.

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·       We have redesigned the Blind Android Users website, check it out!

·       Accessible Android has now reached 100 written articles!

We continue our exploration of Samsung settings, and John demonstrates “Modes and routines”. We also look at the beta of Android Quarterly Platform Release 2.1.

Warren and John review the Pixel 8 Pro.

For our Android journey, we are joined by Jessica Mangan.

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We continue our exploration of Samsung settings, for which Warren gives us a tour of the “Connected devices” section.

Warren and John give us a dual unboxing of the Pixel 8 Pro, and Ed gives you a little limerick about John.

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·        Google has opened up the trusted tester program to people in the United Kingdom, which will let you test Talkback betas among other things. Why not sign up.

·        For residents of US and Canada, Google is undertaking some accessibility testing involving Youtube TV and living room, sign up at this link.

It’s a busy one this week. First, we look at the Samsung Galaxy S23 FE. Then, we look at Android 14/Quarterly Platform Release Beta 1.  Finally, we talk about the Google Pixel 8 and 8 Pro.

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·       Google is 25 years old, happy birthday Google!

·       We also neglected to mark Android’s 15th anniversary a couple of weeks ago, we do that now.

This week, we bring you the next in our series looking at Samsung One UI.  Warren starts our tour of Samsung System Settings, looking at the Connections settings.

Karene brings you the next in our series on Jieshuo, in which she demonstrates using Jieshuo shortcuts.

Warren shows us how to use the Gmail app’s confidential mode.

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Welcome to episode 146 where we continue our journey through the Samsung One UI.

In our ANDROID BASICS segment, we bring you two items—Part 4 of our journey through the Samsung One UI, and this week we look at the “Notifications and the Quick Settings.”

For the second part of the Android Basics, we take a look at the just released Android14QPR1Beta1 that dropped on Sept. 20, 2023.

For this week’s “Tip of the week,” we take a look at the “Help Me Write” feature that Google introduced to both the “Messages by Google” and “Gmail.”

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