It's been a long running complaint of mine that these UI changes are created to do little more than make other UI folks happy. The features and functionality of android have been going down over the last few releases. Seriously who approved that stupid stacked clock forced onto our home screens only a few releases ago? The alarm feature of playing the news is now working about 1 in 5 days. I had to start running a launcher so I could setup my grid and shortcuts the way I liked. The calendar switched to week mode each time you add or modify an entry forcing you to swipe back into month mode. I'd love to see additional usability or useful features instead of the AI creep and dare I say Enshittification of the OS.

Bring back the storage expansion slot (micro SD). If you can just pop in 1TB when needed and if not you can always just swap cards for different games. That said some of the larger PC games I'm aware of don't quite hit 1/3 TB so it'll take phones some time to fill those cards.

Yep, Signal really should have been an option.

I can see it now "Amendment 3.5 to protect your data privacy"

The Barbra Streisand effect is in full swing now. If they wouldn't have done anything I probably wouldn't have even looked it up. Now I've looked Eric's full name as I'm sure millions more have done the same thing. Weird how Google of all groups think they can hide data from us.

I'm super excited for the XCover Pro! I hadn't heard about the field pro yet. I will be buying one but I do wish it had more RAM and a smaller screen. I'm curious how the speed will compare to flagship phones, has anyone seen any benchmarks?

No headphone jack, no purchase. A removable battery is also a requirement so it can be replaced as it wears out in addition to having a spare I can swap quickly. I do like that it has expandable storage.

Remember how Windows RT went? How about their Windows phone OS? This one is likely to go the same way, very little support which will lead it to being discontinued early and all devices running it will go to the scrap heap a few years earlier than they would have if they had another fully supported OS.

This seems like an obvious question but why does one guy and his staff need a more than 400 passenger plane? Wouldn't something built for extended flight time, reliability, and speed that held closer to 75 or 100 passengers still be overkill? I certainly don't know a lot about airplanes so maybe a better alternative simply doesn't exist and this was the best option. Are there better 100 passenger options?

Yes, I remember this happening. Usually it was super boring though since they generally just stood there and looked at the camera.