Mobile

I saw public USB charging slots at airport. But are those safe to use as USB is pretty unsafe interface? Or this? I prefer own know to be safe charger connected to mains power. This keeps my devices safe. →

https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/25/android-ps-final-beta-preview-is-live/ Android just dropped Beta 4 for Android P, marking the last preview milestone before the full version launches. The release is primarily focused on developers. It seems that the still unnamed mobile OS version is just around the corner — promised to arrive at some point later this summer. →

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44858238 Google has been fined a record €4.34bn ($5bn; £3.9bn) over Android. The firm’s parent Alphabet has been given 90 days to change its business practices or face further penalties. The European Commission said the firm had used the mobile operating system to illegally “cement its dominant position in general internet search”. →

https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/06/04/apple-releases-first-ios-12-macos-1014-mojave-watchos-5-and-tvos-12 Apple had on Monday’s WWDC 2018 a keynote presentation that announced new product updates. Apple issued initial beta versions of its upcoming platform upgrades, including iOS 12, macOS 10.14 Mojave, watchOS 5, and tvOS 12. →

https://www.zdnet.com/article/cell-phone-tracking-firm-exposed-millions-of-americans-real-time-locations/ Another week and another privacy disaster. Now a company that collects the real-time location data on millions of cell phone customers across North America had a bug in its website that may have exposed nearly every cell phone customer in the US and Canada, some 200 million customers. The LocationSmart page required explicit consent →

http://www.pocketgamer.biz/comment-and-opinion/67926/something-has-gone-terribly-wrong-with-finland-it-has-become-an-emblem-of-mobile-game-industry-stagnation/ There is no country as tightly bound to the mobile games industry as Finland, where the success of local champions has become a totemic part of national identity. Nokia’s Snake mobile phone game had been an astonishing success in 1997. Rovio’s Angry Birds took flight in early 2010. In the summer of 2012, Supercell →

Here is my collection of relevant trend for smart phones in 2018: It seems that crazy growth times in smart phone markets are over at least for some time. The eight-year-long smartphone bubble in China has abruptly come to an end, in yet another warning sign that the global synchronized growth narrative is merely an →

Is Samsung Galaxy S9+ the fanciest Android phone at the moment? Only teardown will tell if this phone is a true contender, or just a weird AR Emoji machine. Read Samsung Galaxy S9+ Teardown by iFixit: two blades for changing aperture versus the usual five on normal cameras; battery, iris scanner, front cam are basically →

https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/06/a-day-that-changed-your-phone/ It’s the 10-year anniversary of the original iPhone SDK. I don’t think it’s an understatement to say that this release changed a lot of people’s lives. iPhone at the end of June 2007 was a glimpse of the future. A couple of months later, the entire native app experience was unlocked. →

https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/27/rating-the-big-smartphone-makers-at-mwc-2018/ This article gives good overview of smart phone maker announcements made by biggest manufacturers. Based of this it seems that the years of big mobile innovations are over. Many years of business growth has slowed as people keep using their phones for longer time. And the announcements don’t seem to be able to change →