Last year's Pixel 6A ( 8/10, WIRED Recommends) remains an excellent buy, especially at its new price of $349 ( note: it frequently sells for $299). There's also no microSD card slot or headphone jack, so you'll have to look elsewhere if you want a phone with those features. The 4,385-mAh cell, with average use, can take you through a full day, but on busy days, you will most likely need to top up before the sun goes down. The only things that are iffy on the Pixel 7A are the fingerprint sensor, which isn't as snappy or reliable as I'd like, and the battery life. It’s disappointing that Google isn’t leading here, especially when Apple’s 5-year-old iPhone XR will receive iOS 17. Unfortunately, Google only promises three OS upgrades (Samsung offers four). It'll also get five years of security updates, so it'll be supported for quite a while. We've collected most of them below this guide, but my favorites are Assistant Voice Typing, for much faster and accurate voice transcriptions using the built-in keyboard Now Playing, to find out what music is playing around me without having to search for it and Call Screen, which has pretty much stopped all spam calls coming my way. The really hot setup would be a way to mark each item on such recording so you could just fast forward through them and use the result as a combination video/voice recorder - I would still take higher resolution pictures of many defects, but if you instantly jump to the next marked item such as setup could really be the cats meow for "walking back through" an inspection as you created the report.A part of the reason why we recommend Pixel phones so much is because of the many great software features that are genuinely helpful every day. I'm niow getting interested in the better and better mini video recorder units being introduced on a seemingly weekly basis - in a pinch with one of those, making a voice note of each defect, I could reconstruct an entire inspection if necessary. Interestingly (and somewhat encouragingly) I did not detect any significant defects on the second visit I've missed on the first. I did once once accidentally erase a folder for one inspection on a multiple inspection day - had to go back with my tail between my legs and perform a reinspection just to be certain - fortunately it was a vacant property, and I'm on pretty good terms with the listing broker. With the pictures for big dollar or potential high liability defects I may fail to report an inoperative stopper at a sink drain if the recorder has failed, but nothing more serious. I make very heavy use of my voice recorder, but I also try and take a picture of every serious defect - I live in terror of the day when I get back to the office and discover the voice recorder was not recording (I have trained myself watch for the red recording light to go on, so hopefully this is never going to happen.) Last edited by Michael Thomas 03-29-2010 at 04:41 AM. Hint: Half the power of DNS in in the command browser, as you can "program" DNS to insert *any* type or amount of "canned" text or graphics with a short voice command. "smarttext cardinal direction" inserts "*identify(cardinal-direction)*"ĥ) Do the same to control capitalization:Ħ) BACK UP your vocabulary regularly using the "export", as you will eventually have a *lot* of time invested in building it. "grammar" is just the "tag" I use for to identify such commands, you can call them anything you want and also create multiple tags, for example I use a "smarttext" tag to identify text to insert into Homeguage report temples, ex: "grammar whether or not" inserts "whether" Here's what I did to get DNS up to near perfect report-writing accuracy:ġ) Start with new user, and select the creation of a empty dictionary.Ģ) Have it "read" the directory containing your completed reports (you now have a dictionary which contains ONLY the words you use in your reports, and DNS will never substitute "lentil" for "lintel" ).ģ) Start dictating, and whenever DNS confuses two words,"train" both of them, or if one is very uncommon, delete it.Ĥ) Whenever you encounter homonyms, or words which just seem to give DNS problems, use the command browser to set up a "command" for each, for example:
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