00:00 – Mishaal Rahman: We may have finally figured out why the Pixel 10 has bad battery life, at least for some users.
00:04 – C. Scott Brown: And we finally have an Android alternative to the Apple Vision Pro.
00:08 – Mishaal Rahman: I’m Mishaal Rahman.
00:10 – C. Scott Brown: And I’m C. Scott Brown and this is the Authority Insights Podcast where we break down the latest news and leaks surrounding the Android operating system.
00:18 – Mishaal Rahman: Google announced Android XR, its XR focused operating system way back in December of last year and they promised at the time that we would get some real hardware from Samsung by the end of this year.
And finally, after many months of waiting, we finally have the official launch of the Project Moohan headset now known as Galaxy XR from Samsung. And you can now finally buy it. You can literally walk into a Samsung store or order it online from Samsung. But should you buy it?
00:46 – C. Scott Brown: And should you buy the Pixel 10 given the battery problems that some people are having?
We have seen some erratic reports of battery life as far as the Pixel 10 goes, but we finally got some data from testing that we did here at Android Authority and found out that the battery issues that people are facing might be hardware related, which of course is not great because that means you’re not going to see it get better and better as software goes or software updates come in.
01:13 – C. Scott Brown: But to Google’s credit, their hardware decisions have proven advantageous in other areas. Besides all the unique AI features that you only find on Pixel phones, it turns out that Pixels are actually the best phones for running desktop Linux apps.
01:29 – Mishaal Rahman: That’s pretty exciting, but we’re still years away from actually realizing those efforts of running desktop Linux apps on Android phones in an actually performant way and actually turning our Android phones into proper PCs.
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