Follow-up review of Samsung A54 mid-range smartphone after one month of use, covering privacy baseline and broken apps due to missing persmissions, ignored permissions, battery life, camera quality, numerous annoyances with virtual keyboard, suggestions, RCS messages, Bixby, nearby devices, personalized shared data, trackers, and third-party apps, poor search in Play Store, some other observations, and more| www.dedoimedo.com
Long, detailed article on my use of mostly Linux and free, open-source software to write a large, complex, nonfiction military history book with 100K words and lots of images, tables and citations, covering various software, utilities and practices, efficiency and productivity factors, use of styles, navigation, quotation, annotation, highlighting and sharing tools, pros and cons of LibreOffice, Okular, GIMP, GwenView, Kate, and Octave, Android phone reading through Readera app, notes syncing...| www.dedoimedo.com
Short article showing various problems and inconsistencies with the new non-skippable fullscreen popup asking the user to set up payment verification method upon opening Google Play Store in Android, covering problems with the implementation, workaround, store configuration, some other observations, and more| www.dedoimedo.com
Review and report 5 of Samsung A54 mid-range smartphone long-term usage, including One UI 6.1 update, preserved privacy and security baseline, everyday usage, some responsiveness issues with several apps, broken system search, difficulty finding right software in Google Play, battery life, and more| www.dedoimedo.com
Review and report 3 of Samsung A54 mid-range smartphone long-term usage, including major version upgrade to One UI 6.0 (Android 14), look and feel, settings and permissions, new features, new privacy controls, Auto Blocker, additional cleaning and removal of apps, battery life, some other observations, and more| www.dedoimedo.com
Review and report 2 of Samsung A54 mid-range smartphone long-term usage, covering look & feel, ergonomics - audio, video and camera, battery life, everyday functionality, various apps, additional tweaks, deep sleep, other observations, and more| www.dedoimedo.com