• hedgehogging_the_bed@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Huh? In the exact same place on this Pixel and my last three Pixels is the Power button, Double tapping the Power Button on my Android phone opens the camera. Press and hold to talk to Assistant. Hold a long time to open Emergency and eventually call 911 automatically. It’s been a option for a long time. It would be nice if Google made these use assignable actions but they already exist.

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        1 year ago

        The power button on my wife’s old phone (Pixel 3, I think) started to flip it’s shit and we got woken up by police knocking on our door because of it one time.

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      1 year ago

      This is what I don’t get. Well obviously they want to push usage of their own services, but shortcut stuff like this should always be customisable. To a degree I even understand it for assistant, but why would you want to push the usage stats of the camera app? Android has been about choice for such a long time, but they have been fucking this up for so many years now, letting Apple get the points here.

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      1 year ago

      I know basically nothing about the Action Button, but fwiw, iPhones use the power button in a similar manner already. Double press opens Apple Pay, press and hold for Siri.

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      1 year ago

      I’m fairly certain that on some Android phones it is programmable. I could have sworn it was on my OnePlus 5, anyway.