Android Leftovers

• A brand new Android phone you can’t buy is as close as we’ve seen to a perfect design

• Samsung Android 10 beta could arrive very soon

• Samsung Android 10 roadmap appears online (Update)

• Forget iOS 13: Here's what Samsung devices will receive Android 10

• Here’s The List of Samsung Devices Getting Android 10 Update (Leaked)

• Leaked Samsung Android 10 update list lacks some big names

• Here's a List of Samsung Phones Set to Get the Android 10 Update

• That Samsung Android 10 update list that drops the Galaxy S8 isn’t official

• LG's leaked Android 10 skin is still oppressively bright, but at least there's dark mode

• Magisk 19.4 brings Android 10 and product partition support and adds a new system-as-root implementation

• That Leaked List of Samsung Devices Getting Android 10 Is Bogus

• Black Shark 1 Gaming Phone Receives Android Pie Update

• Xiaomi brings Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, and Pie to its Android TV-powered Mi TVs

• TiVo's big plan to become relevant again is... a $50 Android TV stick

• Alipay, Huawei, Android, DJI, WeChat Top China Consumer Brand Survey

• Huawei's Android replacement HarmonyOS is reportedly far from finished

• 10 Best Offline Android Games To Play In 2019 [No Data Needed]

• Nokia feature phone powered by Android leaks on video

• Chrome 78 beta: Sending phone numbers to Android, Password Checkup, Chrome OS settings

• The Best Android Launchers for Home Screen Customization

Wisconsin Broadcasters Clinic Preview: Raspberry Pi

The Raspberry Pi is a single board SOC (system on a chip) computer that is about the size of a deck of cards. It runs a ARMCore version of Debian Linux in a standard configuration but can also run Ubuntu Linux, several other more obscure OSes, and Windows 10 IOT (If you like the Microsoft [non]security model). The basic Raspberry Pi model lists at $35 US so it is a very cost effective solution for those broadcast applications that would normally require a full blown PC to just loaf along and do one thing. I have implemented several applications for the Raspberry Pi for our studios and transmitters for Cumulus Chicago. We will be showing, hands-on, several of these applications at the “Nuts and Bolts” session of the Wisconsin Broadcasters fall show. My first application was porting Anthony Eden’s Livewire Simple Delegation Switcher to the Pi. At that point it only ran on Windows in a windowed configuration. I needed a border-less configuration with large buttons to use as a monitor routing panel to select which audio went to overhead speakers in Sales, Promotions, and common areas. Since the code is open source, I modified it to fit my needs. Since that time, Anthony has posted Raspberry Pi configuration instructions on his GIT repository web site.

AMD EPYC 7642 Benchmarks: The Rome 48 Core CPU That Easily Takes On Intel's Xeon Platinum 8280

Since the AMD EPYC 7002 series "Rome" launch at the beginning of August, it's been known how AMD's top-end (aside from the newly-announced EPYC 7H12) EPYC 7742 easily outperforms the Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 in most real-world benchmarks. The EPYC 7742 not only outperforms the Xeon Platinum 8280 in raw performance but also at a significantly lower cost and it gets even better with the EPYC 7642. We have been testing the EPYC 7642 48-core processors and even there the performance is generally ahead of a Xeon Platinum 8280 while being about half the cost of that flagship non-AP Intel Xeon Scalable Cascadelake processor. Complementing our recent EPYC 7302 and EPYC 7402 benchmarks, today we are focused on the EPYC 7642 as the Rome 48-core / 96-thread processor. This 48 core processor has a 2.3GHz base clock and 3.3GHz boost clock while having 256MB of L3 cache, eight DDR4-3200 memory channels, 128 PCIe 4.0 lanes, and other features in common with the EPYC 7742 and other Rome processors. The EPYC 7642 carries a 50MHz base clock speed advantage over the 64 core EPYC 7742 but a 100MHz lower boost clock speed as the principal differences aside from the core/thread count. Both of these CPUs carry a 225 Watt TDP.