The Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra may be getting its first firmware update to improve its already impressive camera
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Samsung Galaxy S10+ planned with 4G and 5G versions
Earlier reports of a potential 5G version of the Galaxy S10 have been validated, at least in a "behind-the-scenes" sort of way.
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Firmware betrays existence of LG Q9 with a few specs
A few key specs have come out about this upcoming LG mid-ranger, but we don't exactly know what it will look like just yet.
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Leaked firmware says Xiaomi Redmi S2 has Snapdragon 625
The Qualcomm chipset is a very efficient user of power. There's also dual cameras here. But what will China and India pay for it?
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iOS 11.3 firmware mentions “Modern iPad,” signals new-gen iPad Pro with Face ID
"iPhone_Modern" was the term used inside firmware to talk about what would become the iPhone X. So, we know that there's a new iPad or two coming this year. What's new?
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AT&T Huawei Mate 10 Pro firmware leaked, looks to run EMUI 8.0
The Huawei Mate 10 Pro looks to have an oddly familiar software skin on top of Android Oreo, according to a seemingly official firmware package...
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Honor V10 specs reportedly include headphone jack, slightly smaller battery
What's not found on one brand's phone is found on the others. Some leaked firmware shows a few divides between Huawei and its sub-brand Honor.
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AT&T could get Huawei Mate 10 Pro
Leaked firmware indicates that a variant of the Huawei Mate 10 Pro has been made specifically for AT&T's US network. An announcement is expected at CES.
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More details on iPhone 8 ‘Pearl ID’ crop up, along with 4K Apple TV ‘confirmation’
Pearl ID, aka Face Unlock, on the upcoming iPhone 8 is truly starting to sound like a competent Touch ID replacement. That 4K Apple TV is exciting too.
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Amazon has started selling BLU smartphones again
The e-marketplace stated to Pocketnow that its decision to reinstate BLU phones to its offerings was based on conversations with the company.
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Amazon stops sales of BLU phones over “potential security issue”
Citing a "potential security issue," the e-marketplace has dropped all of BLU's phones from its site. The firmware on some of those phones is of concern.
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BLU phones still send all of your data to Chinese servers
It is worse since November. The process is hidden better and can encompass everything about your phone from your location to what apps you install.
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Galaxy S8 and HTC U11 get software fix to better access Sprint 2.5GHz band
Sprint's been fighting its reputation as the weakest network in the US and it's using download speeds through the Galaxy S8 as a metric.
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BLU accuses Shanghai Adups of request violation, migrating updates to Google’s systems
BLU claims that the Chinese company it had contracted with for firmware updates to its phones disregarded a request to not mine its users’ data.
The Miami-based smartphone seller told PCMag that Shanghai Adups went rogue by installing software that sent full content data from texts, call histories and contact lists to servers in China.
“We have an email history with Adups saying we did not want that functionality on our devices, and they violated our request,” said BLU CEO Sammy Ohev-Zion.
The phonemaker has updated the software on phones with Adups’s firmware on them to block data from being sent to the overseas servers. Security firm Kryptowire has agreed to keep tabs on the software on BLU’s phones for a year.
New Android phones will have Google over-the-air firmware solution installed — this may also include new shipments of the R1 HD, one of the original phones thumbed for the Chinese firmware. The company will also update its privacy policy to include information about what data its firmware will receive.
“[BLU will] not install third-party applications where we don’t have the source code and don’t understand the behavior,” Ohev-Zion said. “Today, no BLU phone has this problem.”
The company has also gone to the lengths of joining a “fastpass” program in association with MediaTek to get its phones loaded with a clean Android UI and updated more frequently. Expect some of those phones out in January.
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T-Mobile Nexus 6 users can’t use the fastest LTE in the US
Why? Something went wrong. No one knows what went wrong, and worse yet, it’s international.It started with reports stretching through the past 48 hours of Nexus 6 devices not being able to connect with the “best in the country” T-Mobile data network. Down Detector tracked multiple reports from Nexus 6 owners and ...
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