Android 14 offers a lightly customizable lock screen and not much else.
What about the fact that you can use your phone’s camera as a webcam for your PC without any sketchy apps installed
How do you use this? Does the phone need to be wired in, or is there some wifi solution?
without any sketchy apps installed
How do you do it without an app?
It’s in beta right now, to be released in a month or so.
Did this feature actually release? I thought it was coming in a future update.
Not released yet. It’s supposed to be in the next Quarterly Platform Release. (QPR1)
I don’t care about costumizations. Just give me better under the hood optimizations for better battery
They have done some work here. There’s a 30% reduction in cold application starts, which improves performance and battery life. Android 14 is also far more aggressive at restricting CPU resources in idle apps.
I wish Ars handed over coverage of Android to a person who wasn’t this unabashedly hostile against it and Google. These same people claim “revolutionary” changes when Apple so much as modifies one bit of the iPhone’s layout.
Ron Amadeo never covered Apple products afaik and sometimes he can be annoying and concentrating on little things, but most of the time he’s very good and objective.
