• @[email protected]
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    518 months ago

    Google Phone team is working on a new feature that will make talking a lot more fun with your friends and family. Imagine saying something funny to your friend with a drumroll sound effect in the background, or expressing love and anger using screen effects with sounds.

    plz no

    • William
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      198 months ago

      I can see a lot of people using the drumroll thing, and that’s going to let it in the door for so much crap.

      It’s one of those things that you can see slowly coming from a mile away, but there’s not a damn thing you can do to stop it.

      • Sabata11792
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        8 months ago

        A future of metal pipe sounds as far as the ears can bleed.

    • Admiral Patrick
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      178 months ago

      “You know what I need when I call my parents? A laugh track” - said no one ever

    • Possibly linux
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      58 months ago

      This is going to be really funny. I’ll be discussing a shooting and we just hear active conflict sounds.

      • Daze
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        78 months ago

        Holy fuck lol, phone calls are going to start sounding just like those huge copypasta bricks with emojis every 2-3 words

      • @[email protected]
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        108 months ago

        Yes, and there are probably other FOSS applications for that as well.
        But it is a bit sad to see that Google considers the “phone” part of the “smartphone” be so obscure functionality that they left it’s development to community.
        Maybe I should stop living in the past and just accept that the glowing rectangle that we carry around is actually a tiktok machine that can occasionally do some other stuff as well.

  • Moof
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    208 months ago

    🔫 This ain’t your dAdDy’S phonecall! 🚨

    💥 This is a phonecall from J-j-j-john Smiiiiiiith! 📯 💣

    🐐 Bringing you the latest up-to-date news from the 📣 Coolest Assistant Manager At Pizza Huuuuuuut 😱

    👾 So can you come in EaR-eAr-EaRlY on M-m-m-monday moOoorniiiiiing? 🐮

  • @[email protected]
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    188 months ago

    Yo this sucks I just want the phone to make calls and not listen to my conversations for cues to do any goddamn thing

  • @fox2263
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    148 months ago

    Google: We need to listen to your phone calls Us: Why? Google: Oh er, nothing malicious…👀…

  • @AbidanYre
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    8 months ago

    How about they focus on making sure pixels can receive calls without needing to be rebooted every fucking day.

    • tim-clark
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      68 months ago

      Google has abandoned the pixel as a phone, just like all their other projects. It’s a device for collecting data

  • @kylie_kraft
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    8 months ago

    that sounds just terrible. can we please have a functional voice assistant again?

  • @[email protected]
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    18 months ago

    My Pixel can’t even merge calls or tell me that the person I’m ringing is on the phone, but they wanna add this shit?

  • @vane
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    18 months ago

    Voice call narrator - the prequel.