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Episode 245: COLOR-DETECTION APPS, DO WE NEED THEM IN 2025?
Welcome to Episode 245 where we take a look at Color-detection aps.
Do we still need these COLOR-DETECTION APPS in 2025 with all the AI?
This week, the Spotlight is on the Android 16 QPR1 Beta 3.1 with some 24 bug-fixes and a crucial fix for those who use Voice-dictation.
For this week’s “app of the week,” we bring you an e-book reading app, simply called, “SayIt.”
For this week’s “Tip of the week,” we highlight a new feature of the Google “Messages app” called “Protection and Safety.”
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Episode 244: What’s New with “ReVision Fitness”
Welcome to Episode 243 where the focus is on “ReVision Fitness.”
This week, our friend Tyler Merren from “ReVision Fitness” joins us to talk about the new happenings with “ReVision Fitness” and updates us about an upcoming event.
For this week’s “app of the week,” we bring you a long-awaited “Soundscape” app adapted for Android by the “Scottish Tech Army.”
For this week’s “Tip of the week,” John shows you how to customize the “Recent Apps” screen on your Samsung Galaxy phone.
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Episode243: Who are Tablets For?
Welcome to Episode243 where the focus is on Tablets.
Your faithful crew talks about the pros and cons of Tablets and who these could be suited for.
Our friend Joe Hodge reviews the “Lenovo Legion Tab Gen 3.”
For this week’s “app of the week,” we bring you a little fun app called “Luck by Chance.”
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Episode242: 2025 3rd Quarter Open-Listener Session
Welcome to our 3rd Quarter Open-listener session of 2025.
Our sister site: Accessible Android marks its 2nd anniversary since inception.
This week, as part of the 2025 3rd Quarter Open-listener Session, we interact with some Developers who talked about their projects.
Philip Bennefall from Blastbay, Muhammed and Abdala from TableEx and Lillian Fidler from Lillian Fidler design, updated us on their projects.
This is the general topic area where listeners discussed things they are happy with and those they’re not happy with.
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Episode241: ARE CURRENCY RECOGNIZERS NECESSARY IN 2025?
Welcome to Episode 241.
Our 3rd quarter “open-listener session” is scheduled for July 26, 2025 at 9AM Pacific time.
Join us and interact with some Devs.
In this week’s episode, your faithful crew discusses as to whether or not “Cash Readers” are relevant in 2025 with all the AI capabilities.
Google dropped the final beta of QPR1 in the way of Beta 3.
Alongside that, Google introduced “Gemini Feature-drops” with its dedicated page tracker.
For this week’s “app of the week,” we focus on “DBMB”—An app to silent unknown callers.
The developer of Jieshuo Screen Reader introduces the “Jieshuo Max.”
For this week’s “Tip of the week,” John demonstrates some of Gemini’s capabilities on a WearOS Watch.
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Welcome to Episode 240.
In this week’s episode, our focus is on the Samsung2025 Summer Galaxy Unpacked.
1. Google July Pixel Drop
3. Galaxy S24 and S25 July Security patch
In the spotlight, we spotlight the “Samsung2025 Summer Galaxy Unpacked devices
For this week’s “App of the week,” we are focused on the “Vocalizer AI.”
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Welcome to Episode 239.
In this week’s episode, our focus is on the state of Radio apps in 2025.
1. TuneIn Radio,
2. VRadio,
3. Cloud Radio,
4. AudialsPlay AND
5. Radio - Apps (Radio FM).
In the spotlight, we spotlight the “Nothing Phone.:
For this week’s “App of the week,” our focus is on the “Open Document Reader.
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We discuss what's new in Android 16 QPR1 Beta 2.1.
We have the privilege of talking to Philip Bennefall of Blastbay Studios, the developer behind new text-to-speech voices for Windows. We discuss the process of creating the TTS engine and the possibility of an Android Version.
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In this week’s episode, our focus is on the review and impressions of the Motorola Razr+2024.
John treats us to a quick review and impressions of the Motorola Razr+2024, where the crew members voice their opinions of the phone.
For this week’s “App of the week,” our focus is on the “Office Viewer Reader” by “nTools.”
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Welcome to Episode 236.
This week has been busy for Google as Android 16 Public release drops including the “Pixel Feature-drop” and the Android 16 QPR1 Beta 2
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ANDROID BASICS
Besides Google dropping Android 16 QPR1 Beta 2, Samsung wasn’t sitting around, thus, One UI 8 Beta 2 for the S25-Series of phones equally dropped.
In the spotlight is the Android 16 Public release and the “Pixel-feature-drop.”
For this week’s “App of the week,” our focus is on the “1Cross” Bible app.
Mckensie Parker joins us to talk about her Android Journey story.
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We discuss the release of Android 16 QPR Beta 1.1.
We are joined by the developers of TableEx – an app designed so that blind and visually impaired people can play classic board and card games.
Warren brings us a demonstration of a new bible app, Random Scripture Verse Picker.
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We discuss what’s new in the recently launched Samsung One UI 8 Beta available on the S25 series of phones. Enroll via the Samsung Members app.
We are joined for a conversation by the developers of Seeing Assistant GO – an app we recently discussed when we surveyed the state of GPS apps.
John demonstrates the new table navigation mode in Talkback 16.
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Android16 QPR1Beta1
Google preceded the public release of Android16 with “Android16QPR1Beta1.”
This week, the focus is on Google I/O 2025 – Google’s annual developer conference which took place on 20 and 21 May. The crew discuss the highlights, but it’s worth reading the 100 I/O announcements in full.
Focusing on one of the I/O announcements, Warren demonstrates the Google Notebook LM app.
John demonstrates the new screen description feature in Talkback 16.
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This week, we discuss the release of Talkback 16.
It’s a busy section this week. We talk about various phones including the Samsung S25 Edge, The Sony Xperia 1 VII and the latest Android 16 Beta.
John shows us how to ask follow up questions when you have a Talkback image description – a new feature of Talkback 16.
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In recent episodes we have been revisiting app categories we looked at in the early days of the podcast. However, we have never dedicated a full segment to screen readers though we have discussed the differences in passing, so we are remedying that now. This week, we look at Talkback available as part of Google’s Android Accessibility Suite, Jieshuo/Commentary and Prudence.
Check out this comparison article between TalkBack and Jieshuo on Accessible Android.
This week, we touch on some of the fixes in the May security patch.
Warren demonstrates the text to speech app, TTS Router.
John shows us how to handle different aspects of the Notifications and Quick Settings panels in Samsung One UI 7.
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In recent episodes we have been revisiting app categories we looked at in the early days of the podcast. This week, we look at the state of GPS apps in 2025. Apps discussed include Google Maps, Lazarillo Accessible GPS, Seeing Assistant Move and the simpler Seeing Assistant Go, Goodmaps Outdoors and Waymap (disclaimer: this one hasn’t been tested)!
Joe Hodge unboxes his new tablet, the Lenovo Legion Tab Gen 3.
Karene brings us the next episode in our Jieshuo series, looking at its ability to take full and partial screen shots, as well as a direct touch and hold function.
Warren demonstrates the Text to Speech engine, Speecx.
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In recent episodes we have been revisiting app categories we looked at in the early days of the podcast. This week, we look at the state of audio book apps in 2025. We discuss various apps including Audible, Smart AudioBook Player, Listen Audiobook Player, mAbook and LibriVox
We talk about the new phones from Motorola.
Kirt Manwaring joins us to tell his Android journey story.
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The developer of the app Magnifier which John demonstrated a few weeks ago has very generously donated a number of codes which will remove ads from the app. Get in touch if you’d like one.
In recent episodes we have been revisiting app categories we looked at in the early days of the podcast. This week, we look at the state of browsers in 2025. We discuss Google Chrome, Vivaldi, Brave, Samsung Internet Browser, Microsoft Edge and Firefox.
Spotlight
It’s a busy Spotlight section this week. First, we discuss the changes in Android 16 Beta 4. Next, we talk about Samsung resuming the roll-out Of OneUI 7. Finally, we look at the Honor Power, notable for its massive battery.
In keeping with the theme of this week’s episode, Karene demonstrates the web browser built into Jieshuo.
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Welcome to Episode227, where we discuss the state of email clients in2025.
Email clients continue to be a hot subject matter on both our email and Telegram groups.
Thus, this week, we focus on the state of email clients in 2025.
In this week’s discussion, we touch on the following clients:
Gmail, Email Lite, Edison mail, Spark Mail, TwoBird, Aquamail, etc. where we talked about their strengths and weaknesses.
In the spotlight is the One UI 7 stable release for the S24-series and the new changes it brought.
Alongside with that is a spotlight on the Pixel update for the month of April as well as the Android 16 beta 2 coming in for the OnePlus 13.
John brings us an updated tutorial on how to install the Google Talkback on a Samsung device.
The required batch files are found using this URL.
To close this week’s episode, our friend Devin Prater brings us his Android Journey story.
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Welcome to Episode226, our 2nd Quarter Open-Listener Session.
Since this is an open-listener session, we moved segments around some, thus, the “spotlight” segment is about Android16Beta3.2 and One UI7Beta for the Galaxy A55 phone.
This segment is a general discussion on Android backup, especially focusing on Talkback.
In this segment, the focus is on the implementation of the Google TTS update policy.
The question of how email threads are handled in Gmail and others is the focus of this segment.
This segment spotlights the inability of customizing commands for either the Braille Display or the virtual Braille keyboard.
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