Blind Android Users Podcast

Welcome to Episode 295 where we look back on Samsung’s 2026 Summer unpacked event.

The 2026 Samsung Summer Unpacked is our focus for this week as we look back on the pricing structure, trade-in, new battery technology and the devices that were unveiled a couple weeks ago.

This week’s “app of the week” is “unboxr,” an app intended for the unarchiving of compressed folders and files.

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Welcome to Episode 294 where we celebrate the 3rd Quarter Open-listener/Developer Session, alongside with the celebration of Accessible Android for turning 3.

BAU celebrates the 3rd anniversary of our sister site, Accessible Android for turning 3 today, July 2025.

We sincerely thank all of you for your support in making Accessible Android what it is today.

In the spotlight, is the 2026 3rd Quarter Open-listener/Developer session.

The following developers gave an overview of their apps:

“BookFusion Voice,” “ReadAloud AI,” “Talk Forward Screen Reader” and "Tiflopad" (an app in the early access) needing sign-ups from folks by shooting the Dev an email to be added to the testers at:

[email protected]

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Don’t forget to join us for our third listener and developer session of 2026.  It’s at noon Eastern on 25 July and we’ll send the link out on socials next week.

Now, with a heavy heart, the podcast crew sends its condolences to the family of our friend, titan in the blind community – Rui Fontes who passed away last week.

This week, we discuss what’s new in Android 17 Quarterly Platform Release Beta 7.

The crew discusses something most of us use, and that’s headphones.  But wireless or wired? That’s the question.

Warren demonstrates an SMS organiser, SavvySMS

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Don’t forget to join us for our third listener and developer session of 2026.  It’s at noon Eastern on 25 July and we’ll send the link out on socials during the week before.

We continue our series looking back at Android features which are no more.  We discuss Active Edge, Now on Tap and the Google Assistant.

Warren demonstrates an app which lets you share files between Mac and Android, Bytez.

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Welcome to Episode 291, where we are joined by the developer of a new Android Screen Reader called “Talk Forward.”

Our 3rd quarter Open-listener/Developer Session comes up on July 25, at 9 A.M. Pacific time.

We also remember Austin the co-founder of BAU as his passing clocked two years on June 24, 2026.

In celebrating the 250th anniversary of the United States of America, Google surprised us by dropping Android17 QPR1 Beta6, a week after Beta 5 dropped on June 23rd.

For this week, Yannick PLASSIARD, one of our former co-hosts joins us to talk about “Talk Forward,” a new Android Screen Reader.

The unboxing for this episode focuses on the review of both the “M02 Smart Glasses” and the “Brite AI” App from Brighten Ai Technologies, whose developer we featured on Episode 286.

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Welcome to Episode 290, where we embark on a mini series of the Great Android Features that fell by the wayside.

The Developer of “Declutter,” and app that features as the “app of the week for this episode has given us some promo codes as a giveaway to the lucky listeners.

Just shoot us an email to:

[email protected] to be entered for the giveaway.

In the Android Basics, we look at some of the great innovations of Android that have fallen by the wayside and rebranded as something different.

The spotlight is on the fixes that came along with Android17QPR1 Beta5.

For this week’s “App of the week,” the focus is on ”Declutter,” an app that helps declutter your phone’s storage and in the same breath, keeping the Play URL, in the event that you decide to install the app again.

For the “Android Journey” story, Konnie Ellis takes us down those memory lanes of her Android Journey Story.

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Welcome to Episode 289, dedicated to Android17 Public Release.

The Developer of “ReadAloud AI” whom we had as guest on episode 288 has given us some promo codes as a giveaway to the lucky listeners.

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[email protected] to be entered for the giveaway.

Your faithful crew discuss the Android17 Public release as we look into some of the history, pointing out some of the pain points and the improvements over the years to where it currently stands.

For this week’s “App of the week,” we take a look at an app from “NQM Innovation Lab”called “Universal Installer,” an app that takes away the guess work of figuring out what app to use in sideloading APKs.

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Welcome to Episode 288 where we highlight the “ReadAloud AI app.”

Google pushed out Android17 QPR1 Beta4, which is the final beta built for QPR1.

https://developer.android.com/about/versions/17/qpr1/release-notes

Sushanth Tiruvaipati joins us this week to talk about “ReadAloud AI,”

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.listenai

For this week’s “App of the week,” we take a look at an app called “Framework Detector,” an app that shows you the development language used for the apps on your phone.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.framework_detector.app

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EPISODE 287: THE MOTOROLA 2026 FOLD

Welcome to Episode 287 where we highlight the Motorola 2026 Fold.

In this episode, our focus is on the Motorola 2026 Fold.

Our friend Joe Hodge reviews the device, highlighting its pros and cons.

For this week’s “App of the week,” we take a look at an app called “Quick Search.”

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Listen to the episode to see how you can win access to an app we recently demonstrated on the podcast.

We’re joined by Jerry from BrighenAI Technologies, developers of BriteAI, an AI assistant which can be used on the phone and/or in conjunction with camera glasses.

Warren demonstrates Hear2Read, a TTS engine.

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