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It's one week until the Pixel 11 rollout during the Made By Google event and Huyen Tue Dao, Jason Howell and Ron Richards are getting HYPED. Maybe it's the Android Summer heat or maybe it's the mix of weirdness and oddities in the news this week that we're parsing. Either way, it's a fun show this week! Note: Time codes subject to change depending on dynamic ad insertion by the distributor 00:03:30 - NEWS Depending on which report you read, Smartphone shipments dropped in Q2'26 OR Smartphone revenue was up in Q2'26 Where there's smoke...reports coming out of Nothing that they're pivoting…
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Android Faithful
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Android Faithful is your weekly source for Android news, hardware, apps and more. Join Huyen Tue Dao and Ron Richards, along with a host of Android friends and experts as they keep you up to date every week on everything important to the world of Android From phones and foldables, to tablets and…
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