android

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AI

before you drop $800 on a GPU for AI, know what your phone can already do for free

Android Police ran a real local model on a real phone as a daily driver. it's not a GPU replacement — but it covers more than the GPU-shopping conversation usually admits.

Lena Fischer · Aug 16 · 6 min

Hardware

google just doubled the Pixel's storage — and quietly used the RAM crisis to explain it away

the Pixel 11 starts at 256GB instead of 128GB, for the same $899 as last year. that sounds generous until you realize why storage doubled right when memory got expensive.

Ravi Malhotra · Aug 13 · 7 min

Software

someone let their phone's AI install its own software. it actually worked — with a catch

An Android app called RikkaHub Agent turns a phone into a local-LLM-powered agent that can write code, run Linux commands, and compile software on its own — as long as you keep saying yes.

Priya Nair · Aug 9 · 8 min