Samsung’s 2 New Midrange Phones Get Price Hikes and Small Updates
… Small Updates Processor upgrades are the main highlight for these phones. …
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It Might Not Be the Best $499 Phone, but I'm Glad Nothing's Phone (4a) Pro Exists
… It's a darn shame that Nothing's software update policy limits this phone to three Android OS upgrades and six years of security updates, when the same-priced Pixel 10a gets seven years of blanket software updates, period. …
Your Phone Notifications Reveal More Than You Realize. Here’s How to Lock Them Down
… In general, reboot your phone often, limit notifications where possible, and maybe even leave your phone at home in some higher-risk situations. …
Motorola's Moto G Stylus Is a Tough Sell at $500
… Worst of all, this phone will only receive two Android OS upgrades and three years of security updates. When the Pixel 10a gets a blanket seven years of updates, Motorola desperately needs to step up its software update policy if it's going to charge this much. …
Motorola’s New Razr Folding Phones Command a Higher Price With Few Upgrades
… On the software front, you'll be happy to learn that Motorola is extending security updates from four to five years, though these Razrs will only receive three Android OS upgrades. Samsung and Google promise blanket seven years of updates for their folding phones, so this is disappointing to see. …
Hundreds of Millions of iPhones Can Be Hacked With a New Tool Found in the Wild
… Rather than install spyware that persists on users' phones, DarkSword uses stealthier techniques that are more often seen in “fileless” malware that typically target Windows devices, hijacking the legitimate processes in an iPhone's operating system to steal data. “Instead of using a spyware payloa… …
The Top New Features in Google’s Android 17—and Gemini Intelligence—Coming This Summer
… Google expanded it to Samsung phones with the launch of the Galaxy S26 series, and now it's adding other phone makers to the list. Later this year, Oppo, OnePlus, Vivo, Xiaomi, and Honor phones will all be able to share files and photos to iPhones via Quick Share to AirDrop. …
My Blissful, Unbothered Life as a ‘Do Not Disturb’ Maximalist
… Both iOS and Android phones have had versions of Do Not Disturb modes available to owners for over a decade. Even so, software updates in recent years have made the setting feel more accessible to a wider range of people seeking to avoid being buzzed. …
Discord Sleuths Gained Unauthorized Access to Anthropic’s Mythos
… Citizen Lab found that two surveillance firms had essentially acted as rogue phone carriers, exploiting access to three small telecom firms—Israeli carrier 019Mobile, British cell provider Tango Mobile, and Airtel Jersey, based on the island of Jersey in the English Channel—to track the location of… …
Googlebook Is Google’s New AI-Powered Laptop Platform Built on Android
… He's a little shy of explicitly calling the operating system “Android,” and instead says, “Android and all the technologies surrounding Android are a big part of it.” What makes Googlebooks its own platform—and different from the Android desktop mode that's enabled when you plug in select phones in… …