Blind Android Users Podcast

Welcome to Episode 225 where we talk about the state of eBook Readers in 2025.

In this segment, we feature part 2 of the state of eBook Readers in 2025 with the emphasis on the “off-the-shelf” eBook readers in the way of the following apps:

Speech Central, ElevenLabs Reader, @Voice Aloud Reader, etc.

The One UI 7 Beta 2 for the S23-series is spotlighted where the use of the Side-Key can be used for a different digital Assistant instead of Bixby.

To commensurate with the theme of this week’s episode, the “app of the week” highlights “Reedy.”

For the “Tip of the week,” our friend, Joe Hodge demonstrates how to use the “Share Screen,” while using “Gemini Live.”

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We discuss the changes in Android 16 Beta 3.1.

This week Google launched the Pixel 9A.  The crew discuss the phone and whether or not they’ll be buying it.

John demonstrates the Button Mapper app.

Warren shows us how to perform some basic phone operations using Google Gemini in place of the Google Assistant.

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Welcome to Episode223.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Google is looking for participants from the U.S. and the UK for the “Phone Typing Research study.”

Details:

Length of Study: 75 minutes

Dates: March 20th through April 4th

Compensation for your time:

$100 or 80 British Pounds

URL for remote participation:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeYWM6XHX8WXtDN5o1XZ0I2DbHCVkG6FKDWJlkr7oCpYH_81g/viewform

In this segment, we take a look at the state of podcasts clients in2025 where we mentioned the likes of: “Pocketcasts,” “Antennapod,” “AudialsPlay,” “Podcast Addict,” “Tune-In Radio,” “Spotify,” etc.

In the week of March 10th, both Google and Samsung dropped betas.

Android16Beta3 for Pixels6-9 and Samsung dropped the first beta of One UI7 for the S23-Series for U.S. users.

Kareen brings us another entry from Jieshuo called “Translation.”

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Welcome to Episode222.

In this segment, Google dropped both the March Pixel Feature-drop for Pixel phones and the Watches. 

In the spotlight segment, we highlight what took place at the MWC2025 week, where Samsung dropped a trio of phones—A26, A36 and A56.

We also mentioned in passing phones from the likes of Honor, Xiaomi and ZTE.

Our friend and listener of the podcast Aaron Spears shows us how to install a Ruki screen protector.

TIP OF THE WEEK:

In this week’s “tip of the week,” we highlight the “Read Mode” of the “Aggregator News RSS Reader.”

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Welcome to Episode 221.

In this episode, Olga, the Dev of “RHVoice” informs us of what’s going on with the new voices for Armenian and Finish languages.

Google dropped a little patch for Android 16 Beta 2, bringing it to Android16Beta2.1 with the following fixes:

• Fixed an issue that sometimes prevented devices from entering Doze mode. (Issue #396603519)
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• Fixed issues that caused some animations to appear choppy while configuring live wallpapers. (Issue #397659072)
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• Fixed an issue that sometimes caused devices to reboot unexpectedly. (Issue #396541565)
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• Fixed various other issues that were impacting system stability, connectivity, and performance.

During the same week, Google and Qualcomm team up to extend support for future SnapDragon 7 and 8 powered phones by 8 years.

In the spotlight segment, John gives us a review of the OnePlus 13.

The app mentioned to correct the bluetooth issue can be found here.

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Talkback 15.2 has been released.  Braille displays which use the HID protocol are now supported via Bluetooth, such as the most recent releases from Humanware.

We are joined by Patrick Long from Innosearch AI, a shopping site which aims to make the experience of shopping from major retailers more accessible.

Warren brings us a demonstration of the game Project Dark.

Karene shows us the touch locking feature in Jieshuo.

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Welcome to Episode 219.

In this episode, we continue on our journey of essential app categories in 2025 and this week, we focus on Audio Recorders.

Keeping in line with the subject matter of this episode, we discussed the following recorders:

1. ASR Recorder,
2. Easy Recorder,
3. HiQ MP3 Recorder,
4. Dolby On,
5. Advanced Recorder,
6. Parrot Voice Recorder,
7. AudioLab Audio Editor/Recorder, etc.

In the spotlight segment, we take a look at the 2nd beta of Android16 as well as mentioning the very first security patch for the S25-series since its unveiling last month

For this week’s “app of the week,” we demonstrate a magnifying app in the way of “Magnifier.”

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We continue our look at app categories we examined a few years ago, to see what has change as apps come and go, or simply get updated.  This week, it’s the turn of text editors.  We discuss the pros and cons of Google Keep - Notes and Lists, UpNote, Simple Text Editor, Microsoft Word, Google Docs, Simplenote and Joplin.

Warren unboxes the HMD Vibe.

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We’re delighted to be joined by our listeners to discuss a range of topics related to Android.

John unboxes the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra.

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Welcome to Episode216.

In this episode, we salute the 1st Android16Beta and welcoming the Samsung S25-series of phones.

We update you as to what’s going on with Ed’s family and wish Katie a belated birthday.

Keeping in line with the subject matter of this episode, this segment focuses on the 1st Beta of Android16Beta1, where interested users can enrol using this page.

https://www.google.com/android/beta

We discussed the highlights of this Beta and below is the URL to read up some mode about the “Advanced Protection Mode” by Mishall Rahman of Android Authority.

Samsung dropped the S25-Series of phones during its “Samsung unpack” event on Feb. 22nd.

Your faithful crew digs into what this means, highlighting some of the aspects we love or don’t quite care about.

For this week’s “APP of the week,” we demo the “Perplexity Assistant” from the Devs of the “Perplexity Search Engine.”

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