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Welcome to Episode256 where we chat with Diane from the Blindshell group.
The Blind Shell group has a new phone in the way of the “Blind Shell Classic3” and this time, it has tapped into AI.
For this week’s “app of the week,” we spotlight the “Innosearch,” an app intended to make online shopping easier for blind folks.
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Welcome to Episode255, the 2025 4th-quarter “Open-listener and Developers Session.
Meet some of your Developers and listeners as we interact with these Developers who talked about their projects.
Following the segment that features the Developers and their projects, we have the “Q” and “A” segment, where listeners asked their questions.
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This week, John presents a beginner’s guide to setting up an Android phone for the first time.
We discuss Quarterly Platform Release 2 Beta 3, and new initiatives from Google to protect you from scams.
Jacob Kruger demonstrates Umsizi Reader, which offers support for many South African languages.
Warren shows us how to prioritise messages in the Google Messages app by pinning them to the top of the conversations list.
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Welcome to Episode 253, featuring the Pixel Watch 4.
Our 3rd “open-listener session” FOR 2025 is taking place on Saturday, Oct. 25, 2025.
Mark that down on your calendar and join us for this great session.
Read what the October 2025 Pixel security patch has at this URL.
The Pixel Watch 4 finally reaches us and we unbox and discussed the watch.
TIP OF THE WEEK: Scanning text with GBoard
For this week’s “Tip of the week,” we take a look at the scanning feature of Google’s GBoard.
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Welcome to Episode 252, featuring the Indigo Nav
Our 3rd “open-listener session” FOR 2025 is taking place on Saturday, Oct. 25, 2025.
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Google took to its blog to announce Gemini support for its hardware devices, going back as far as 2015.
The announcement also mentioned some new hardware from Google.
We caught up with Mike May from the development team of the “Indigo Nav” where we talk about the history of the app, what its current state is and the expected features.
John got bitten by the Samsung bug and unboxes the Galaxy Tab S11.
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Welcome to Episode 251, where our focus is on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5.
In keeping with its tradition, Qualcomm just wrapped up its annual chip summit in Maui, HI, where it showcased its newest Snapdragon chips.
Alongside this, we also took a look at Xiaomi’s new phones, the Xiaomi 17-series of phones and the Xiaomi 15T.
Courtesy of some 3 x-Google engineers, this week’s “app Of the Week” is “Huxe.”
For this week’s “Tip of the week,” we continue exploring the new features of Pixel10-series as our friend, Joe Hodge brings us another feature of the Pixel phone called “Daily Listen.”
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Welcome to Episode 250, where we meet One UI 8.
Samsung rolled out One UI 8 to the S25-series of phones, however, this rollout Breaks Accessibility for those who like using their phones with the “Hide-Screen” feature enabled.
With this on, gestures and other related functions are basically broken.
For Pixel users and those enrolled to the QPR program, Google rolled out Android 16 QPR2 Beta 2.
Our friend , Riz, demonstrates an open-source note-taking app called “Joplin.”
For this episode’s “Talkback Highlights,” John shows you how to customize your Talkback Braille keyboard gestures.
Kareen takes you on a journey of suspending all Jieshuo gestures to increase your typing experience.
For this week’s “Tip of the week,” we continue exploring the new features of the Pixel 10 series as we meet “Magic Cue.”
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Welcome to Episode 249, where we meet Talkback 16.1.
For those of you lovers of the Nova Launcher, it seems that the sweet journey has come to an end as the developer announces the end of the road for this beloved Launcher.
With the announcement of Android Accessibility Suite 16.1, we meet Talkback 16.1 with notable changes to typing and touch responsiveness, focus delay, customizable virtual Braille keyboard, etc.
For this episode’s “Talkback Highlight,” we show you how to adjust the Focus Delay, one of the features of Talkback16.1
For this week’s “Tip of the week,” we continue exploring the new features of Pixel10-series as our friend Joe Hodge demos the “Help Me Edit,” found in the Pixel Camera.
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Welcome to Episode 248, discussing the state of Translation apps in 2025.
With AI changing the landscape in technology, we discuss the state of Translation apps in 2025 as to what their role is in this evolution.
The Samsung Tablets were usually unveiled in October, but this year, Samsung moved it to the month of September.
In Google land, the “Pixel Feature-drop” (QPR1 stable) dropped including the September security patch, where Google addresses some 120+ issues, including some serious issues affecting Qualcomm, Media tech and ARM-powered devices.
For this week’s “Tip of the week,” we continue exploring the new features of the Pixel 10 series as we demo the “Take a Message” feature.
I dubbed this as, “bring back my retro Answering Machine.”
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Episode 247: A BIG WELCOME TO SOUNDSCAPE FOR ANDROID
Welcome to Episode 247, where we salute the folks from the “Scottish Tech Army,” the great folks behind “Soundscape for Android.”
In this week’s spotlight, are Kirsty Macintosh, Dave Craig and Tunde Ojelabe of the “Scottish Tech Army” group that brought “Soundscape to Android.”
These wonderful folks intimated us to the development of the app from a pure voluntary effort.
We’re thankful for their work and commend them for such a heroic undertaking to something that even the original developer of the app claimed it wasn’t’ doable for Android.
In the “Unboxing segment,” we’re delighted to unbox the Pixel 10 Pro XL.
In our “Tip of the week,” we feature one of the new features that came with the Pixel 10 series—The Scene Description feature, found in the Pixel Camera.
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Episode 246: MADE BY GOOGLE 2025
Welcome to Episode 246, the “Made By Google 2025” Episode.
Aug. 20, 2025 was a very busy day for Google as they pushed out the Android 16 QPR2 Beta 1 as well as the 3rd iteration of the “Android Canary.”
This week, the Spotlight is on the “Made By Google 2025” event where Google unveiled the Pixel 10-series, including the Pixel Watch 4 and the Pixel Bud A-Series in the way of the Pixel Buds 2A.
Keeping in step with the “Made By Google 2025,” this week’s “App of the week” is a “made By Google” app in the way of the “Google Password Manager” stand-alone App to quickly get to the in-built Google Password Manager.
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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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