• baatliwala@lemmy.worldOP
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    4 months ago

    Iconic release. Material design looked fresh as hell. Shame about the battery life and wake locks though which were never fixed until Android 6.

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      4 months ago

      The design was really great. Everything 4.4 and below looks horribly outdated.

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        4 months ago

        Part of me misses the short-lived Holo design from the Honeycomb era.

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          4 months ago

          Good gravy. I still remember the yoloholo and praiseDuarte days

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      4 months ago

      never fixed until Android 6 Android 9

      FTFY

      It wasn’t until my Xiaomi Mi 8 that I could use my phone without babysitting wakelocks. My nexus 6P still had them, and the consequences were quite annoying thanks to the SD810…