Google is now reaching out to developers to bring their attention to this issue, and they’re also encouraging users to alert developers if they notice it affecting an app they use.
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Apparently, the camera placed in the Nexus 5X is rotated at 180 degrees but third-party apps are “not correctly checking the sensor orientation of the device”. After a few speculation by users, Google imaging engineer Eino-Ville Talvala dropped in and offered up an explanation.
If this is a design issue, it’s likely all affected Nexus 6P will be repaired or replaced.
Hopefully a similar level of customer service can be expected for those who have experienced the spontaneous cracking of the Nexus 6P’s glass panel. He claims that the phone’s rear glass panel has been spontaneously broken without any cause. Recent setbacks have temporarily disrupted the planned schedule, but now users in Europe are already starting to receive the OS update, the report relays. “For me and the cat”. “It was [sitting] on a table next to me when I heard the glass snap, leaving a little snowfall of shavings on the table under it. It’s now continuing to crack away to itself”. For now, it’s only a small group of people reporting the issue, but considering the phone only recently went on sale, not a lot of people have it in the first place.
According to the elucidation, most of the screen damages occur in the front facing side of the phone and it is created to resist head-on impact. Huawei needs to find out whether the problem is localized to a specific batch of the manufactured handsets or delivery location or whether the problem is same across all Nexus 6P handsets manufactured by the company.
HTC Corp.’s (宏達電) share of the USA smartphone market continued to fall in the third quarter of the year prior to the launch of the company’s One A9 handset.
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The Android rep further explained that the old camera application programming interface (API), which most apps use, requires developers to set application preview rotations. Google is now delivering a monthly security update, a needed response to Stagefright and a growing number of malware issues.
