Raju PP

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Tech journalist. Founder @techpp & TechPP Insights (techpp.app). AI tinkerer. Cricket tragic. Stock market student. Opinions are my employer's 😉

Bangalore techpp.com Joined October 2008

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Raju PP @rajupp Oct 25

Meet Talkies! 📺

My little side project to make Android TV and Google TV cleaner, faster, and more useful.

An ad-free, lightweight launcher (~220 KB) with a customizable home screen, content recommendations, weather, and even live cricket scores!

It's now open source, and I'm looking for beta testers. Would love your feedback!

github.com/rajupp/talkies

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Raju PP Verified account @rajupp Oct 23

Quick update on my Claude Code Android TV launcher: about 3.5MB, uses around 125MB of RAM, and is built for my TV and my preferences, like live cricket scores.

A launcher is just a shell. This is the whole home. Should I open-source it?
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Raju PP @rajupp 3m

Talkies 1.3 is out 📺

• A fresh look: outlined focus, glass match cards, cleaner menus
• Football during international breaks: Nations League + friendlies
• Recent apps: Remove from list & App info
• More remote buttons recognized

Free, open-source Android TV launcher 👇

Raju PP Verified account @rajupp 4d

Happy Deepawali! 🪔

Talkies 1.2.11 is out, a free and open-source launcher for Android TV and Google TV:

• Recent apps: press Home twice
• Your apps right on Home
• Talkies stays your home app

Recent apps: press Home twice quickly, in Talkies or inside any app, and your recent apps show up as big cards. Left and Right to choose, OK to switch.

Apps on Home: hide For You, and Talkies settings can put your apps right above the dock. Two rows of five, and Down scrolls to the rest. Thanks to @dhananjay_tech for the idea.

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Raju PP @rajupp 3h

Google has brought the Gemini app to Apple CarPlay, rolling out globally from Nov 11. Gemini was the last big holdout: ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Copilot, Meta AI and Grok were already there.

Two details worth knowing before your next drive. You have to use Gemini Live on your iPhone at least once before the icon shows up in the car. And Daily Brief, one of the more useful driving features, isn't available to users in the EEA or Nigeria, or to anyone under 18.

The car dashboard has become the new home screen fight. Every AI company now wants to be the voice you talk to between home and office.

Raju PP @rajupp 4h

Blue's founders started with an assistant for the iPhone and hit the wall every AI agent hits: on someone else's operating system, "an assistant only gets to see one app at a time." So they built their own OS.

Today Blue is a Pixel 10 Pro with a modified version of Android. It uses your apps the way you do. It reads the screen, taps and types, and handles your logins and SMS codes itself. Their own phone hardware is planned for 2027.

The trade-off is privacy. In the beta, screenshots of whatever app Blue is operating go to its US servers and then to AI providers to decide the next tap. The founder says they're working to move more of that onto the device.

It's $1,299, or free with an iPhone trade-in, and US only for now.

This is where agents are heading: into the OS, not another app. The real question is who you trust to sit there. x.com/OmarAbcXyz123/…

Omar Abdelaziz Verified account @OmarAbcXyz123 12h

We switched 10 people from iPhone to Blue. Weeks later, none of them want their iPhone back.

Introducing Blue: a phone you just talk to. Tell it what you need, and it gets done.

It has all the context, can use every single app, and even triages your notifications.

We built it for people who always have a little too much to do. The ones buried in messages, notifications, and to-dos.

If that's you, get yours today.

Backed by Y Combinator + 70 other VCs & angels.

heyblue.com

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Raju PP @rajupp 14h

Bambu Lab's Formnext headline is not a printer. It is Bambu Circle: certified local partners for machine servicing, retail, print jobs, and training.

The pilot starts in the Netherlands, after a company survey found 58% of its Dutch users wanted a 3D-printing side income. Germany and France follow in early 2027. Bambu wants every European user within an hour of a partner, but hasn't said what joining costs or how partners get paid.

No word on India. Bambu only formally launched here in August with the A2L at ₹48,999, and still sells through resellers. A local service network is exactly what Indian buyers would need next.