VV(^^)VV_____OFFICIAL ANDROID OS/DEVICE THREAD_____VV(^^)VV

[alchemist iq]

yeah man, sure wouldnt want to be spied on

probably refused to allow back doors into kirin

It's not even the basic spying like listing with allways on microphones or cameras. what they can control and access with consumer phones is the scarultimate part. Some people work in highly restricted fields in america like power grids imagine having a Huawei phone and your a high level Contractor for a electrical grid company. They will have control and access to information thats is suppose to be seen by a few people. Some mofo in china with a ghost server and access keys will shut down a whole electric grid all through a Huawei phone by a consumer.

This is why I stay away from cheap Android devices or don't recommend one to people. Like blu, or Huawei. Yes it's cheap but at the cost of your phone softwate Being exploited by a hack.

 

[Nawzlew]

UKs cyber security uses Huawei.

 

[Mokorider]

Any thoughts on the OnePlus 6?

 

[sooperhooper]

Sprint and tmobile to merge
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...-in-26-5-billion-deal-to-take-on-at-t-verizon

 

[Teknoman]

If anyone believes Huawei is being blackballed from consumer phones because of potential exploits then they should slap themselves. Huawei made the Nexus 6P.

 

[kdslittlebro]

RAM PRICE FIXING CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT

https://hothardware.com/news/samsung-hynix-and-micron-dram-class-action-suit-collusion

If you bought anything using DRAM in the last 2 yrs sign up here:

https://www.hbsslaw.com/cases/dram-price-fixing

 

[Black Lotus]

Sprint and tmobile to merge
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...-in-26-5-billion-deal-to-take-on-at-t-verizon

again?

 

[alchemist iq]

If anyone believes Huawei is being blackballed from consumer phones because of potential exploits then they should slap themselves. Huawei made the Nexus 6P.

Phone maker settles charges it let partner collect customers’ text messages

• 04/30/2018 7:50 pm

BLU

Phone maker BLU is settling charges that it allowed a China-based partner to collect a mountain of customers' personal data—including full content of text messages, real-time locations, telephone numbers, contacts, and installed apps—despite promises it would keep such details private.

Under a settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission announced Monday, BLU agreed to implement a "comprehensive data-security program" to prevent similar privacy leaks in the future. Both the company as a whole and co-owner and president Samuel Ohev-Zion are barred from misrepresenting the extent to which they protect the privacy and security of personal information. The company further will be subject to third-party assessments of its security program every two years for 20 years and must comply with record-keeping and compliance-monitoring requirements.

The settlement stems from research published in November 2016 by security firm Kryptowire. It found that BLU phones were transmitting a massive amount of private customer data to AdUps Technologies, a Shanghai-based provider of firmware that ran on the affected devices. Kryptowire said AdUps appeared to gather the data to help phone manufacturers and carriers track the behavior of their customers for advertising purposes.

In a complaint filed Monday, FTC regulators said AdUps provides advertising, data mining, and FOTA—short for "firmware over the air"—update services to mobile and Internet of Things connected devices.

"BLU entered into a contract with AdUps to have the China-based company perform FOTA update services on their devices," FTC attorneys wrote. "Respondents did not ask ADUPS to perform any other services."

Despite the limited mandate, AdUps collected a wealth of customer information, including:

• full contents of text messages
• real-time cellular-tower location data
• call and text message logs with full telephone numbers
• contact lists
• lists of applications used and installed on each device

AdUps collected text messages and transmitted them back to company servers every 72 hours while collecting location data in real-time and transmitting it to servers every 24 hours, the FTC's complaint said.

Following the 2016 Kryptowire report, BLU notified customers that AdUps ceased its data collection activities. Even then, however, BLU "continued to allow AdUps to operate on its older devices without adequate oversight," FTC attorneys wrote.

The FTC action made no mention of a follow-up report from Kryptowire in 2017. It said three models of BLU phones continued to collect a more limited set of users' personal information and sent them to servers located in China. For instance, Kryptowire said that two models—the Grand M and Life One X2—sent phone numbers, IMEIs, IMSIs, Wi-Fi MAC addresses, device serial numbers, and lists of installed applications, as well as cell-tower IDs and locations. The security firm said the BLU Advance 5.0 contained code-execution and logging capabilities that could be used by third-party apps.

A BLU executive responded to the Kryptowire update at the time by saying the data collection was standard for over-the-air functions. "This is in line with every other smartphone device manufacturer in the world," BLU Marketing Director Carmen Gonzalez wrote in the response. "There is nothing out of the ordinary that is being collected," she wrote, and she also asserted that BLU "certainly does not affect any user's privacy or security."

At the time of the Kryptowire update, Amazon said it was suspending sales of BLU phones. A quick search on Monday showed a variety of BLU phones available from the online retailer.






this is why you don't want Huawei phones in American hands. Just cause they did a Partnership with Google doesn't mean they will step across boundaries on their own personal flagship devices.

You should cop you one, so can keep track of your dictionary pics.

 

[Teknoman]

Google tracking my every move with the phone anyway.

 

[Nawzlew]

RAM PRICE FIXING CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT

https://hothardware.com/news/samsung-hynix-and-micron-dram-class-action-suit-collusion

If you bought anything using DRAM in the last 2 yrs sign up here:

https://www.hbsslaw.com/cases/dram-price-fixing

hope something happens, doubt ram prices will be lowered

fine probably wont really make a dent tbh

i want to build a new pc

 

[kdslittlebro]

hope something happens

i want to build a new pc

I been waiting to upgrade for 2 yrs now besides GPU I know the feeling

 

[alchemist iq]

Google tracking my every move with the phone anyway.

But they aint doing it behind your back though. Big difference.

 

[matters7]

What a day
Went from terrible too awesome.
I drowned my G5 and wasnt due for upgrade on my plan yet.
Phone store wouldn't waive it. So I went home and called my provider and got my contract waived.
Ended up with S9+ new contract 24mths phone free, as seemed the best Phone out no LG choice and he'll no too iphone. Got even luckier when I got told that they had a 2 week promo on for the S9+ being released only 1 month ago here in australia. And got told I have $240 too spend on anything I want in store.
Good end too a day
Hard to get used too typing on this edge too edge glass.
Anyone got any tips for me that own the same phone?
Did I make a good choice? Didnt have time too do my usual extensive research but seems to be the best android out atm

 

[Black Lotus]

What a day
Went from terrible too awesome.
I drowned my G5 and wasnt due for upgrade on my plan yet.
Phone store wouldn't waive it. So I went home and called my provider and got my contract waived.
Ended up with S9+ new contract 24mths phone free, as seemed the best Phone out no LG choice and he'll no too iphone. Got even luckier when I got told that they had a 2 week promo on for the S9+ being released only 1 month ago here in australia. And got told I have $240 too spend on anything I want in store.
Good end too a day
Hard to get used too typing on this edge too edge glass.
Anyone got any tips for me that own the same phone?
Did I make a good choice? Didnt have time too do my usual extensive research but seems to be the best android out atm

pixel 2 XL

 

[matters7]

?? I guessing should have looked
Forgot then as a choice as they only newt oo the scene

 

[matters7]

After comparingbspecs
Yeah
Nah
S9+ over pixel 2 xl

 

[Black Lotus]

tbh i found nothing that caught my attention to get me to upgrade from a samsung s6 to s9+. idk if its newer phones or this little to no bloatware that pixels come with, but i find it pretty amazing to hit restart on my phone and have it connected to the network and ready to run an app in like 5 seconds

 

[rico x hood]

Note 8 still the best Samsung phone out.

 

[benzilla427]

tbh i found nothing that caught my attention to get me to upgrade from a samsung s6 to s9+. idk if its newer phones or this little to no bloatware that pixels come with, but i find it pretty amazing to hit restart on my phone and have it connected to the network and ready to run an app in like 5 seconds

I always hear people talk about bloatware, but I don't really have an issue with it on a T-Mobile GS9. I mean of course there's Samsung's repetitive apps, but those can be disabled. I know there's the complaint that Samsung's slow down months after release, but I'm on T-Mobile JOD so that's a non-issue for me.

The LG G7 is interesting to me, I don't know why more manufactures don't go the wide-angle camera route rather than the typical telephoto.

 

[don ramon]

so, as far as an affordable midrange, this new nokia 6.1 looks pretty great so far for $269

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbre...ersion-us-price-release-date-launch-announced

https://www.tomsguide.com/us/nokia-61-release-date-specs-price,news-27132.html

 

[don ramon]

also i have a zte axon 7 bought nearly two years ago and now the company basically been disabled by the us government, which has banned american parts manufacturers form supplying them any parts for like 7 yrs or something. add to that that they have been forbidden from sale in us military bases

this basically will break the company

i like my phone a lot and it's been amazing for the price, but daamn they got shut down hard

gonna have to look for a new midrange soon. maybe the one plus or something unless something innovative comes along

 

[rillo561]

Rockin the essential phone, but damn that nokia is tempting

 

[antidope]

Does T Mobile allow for wifi texting? I've never had this work on any phone I've owned and I could have sworn that T Mobile allows it.

 

[alchemist iq]

I think you need to download an app or the phone itself has to have a provision for the capability.

 

[kingfoamnyc]