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Recently, Apple introduced restricted mode to protect iPhones from attacks by companies like Cellebrite and Greyshift, which allow attackers to recover information from a phone without the password or fingerprint. Elcomsoft just announced that it can easily bypass it. There is an important lesson in this: security is hard. Apple Computer has one of the best security teams on the… Continue reading Defeating the iPhone Restricted Mode
Sprint on Thursday unveiled a new, more complicated lineup of unlimited mobile data plans. Sprint goes from having one plan starting at $60 per month to four different options costing $50 to $70 a month. “The main price hike hits customers who want to … Continue reading Sprint Follows Rivals By Complicating Its Unlimited Mobile Data Plans
According to Bloomberg, Samsung opened the world’s largest mobile phone factory today in Noida, a satellite city of the Indian capital Delhi. The factory will reportedly “double Samsung’s Noida unit capacity for mobile phones to 120 million units a yea… Continue reading Samsung Opens World’s Largest Phone Factory In India
According to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple’s new 2018 iPhones will come in a plethora of colors. The 6.5-inch iPhone will be offered in black, white, and a (new) gold, while the entry-level 6.1-inch LCD iPhone will debut in “grey, white, blue, red and or… Continue reading Apple’s New iPhones Will Come In a Plethora of New Colors, Says Report
Interesting research in using traffic analysis to learn things about encrypted traffic. It’s hard to know how critical these vulnerabilities are. They’re very hard to close without wasting a huge amount of bandwidth. The active attacks are more interesting. EDITED TO ADD (7/3): More information. I have been thinking about this, and now believe the attacks are more serious than… Continue reading Traffic Analysis of the LTE Mobile Standard
The lower house of parliament in France has passed what it called a “detox” law for a younger generation increasingly addicted to screens. As a result, French school students will be banned from using mobile phones anywhere on school grounds starting i… Continue reading French School Students To Be Banned From Using Mobile Phones
2017 was the first year that smartphone unit shipments didn’t grow, according to a new Internet Trends report. “Shipments actually declined by 0.5 percent, as IDC noted in February,” reports The Verge. “In 2016, shipments were lukewarm at 2 percent yea… Continue reading Smartphone Shipments Declined For the First Time In 2017
An anonymous reader shares an excerpt from a report via The Atlantic, written by Alexis C. Madrigal: No one picks up the phone anymore. Even many businesses do everything they can to avoid picking up the phone. Of the 50 or so calls I received in the l… Continue reading Why No One Answers Their Phone Anymore
MojoKid writes: Last week, Arm showed off its new Machine Learning Processor design, but today it has lifted the veil on its next-generation Cortex and Mali CPU, GPU, and VPU architectures, destined for 2019 smartphones and mobile devices. The Arm Cort… Continue reading Arm Unveils Next-Gen 76-Series Mobile CPU, GPU Cores
New submitter Daneel Olivaw R. shares a report from Tom’s Guide: To measure each phone’s toughness, [Tom’s Guide] dropped it from both 4 and 6 feet onto wood and concrete. After each test, we recorded the damage to the phone. If a phone was rendered un… Continue reading The Toughest (And Weakest) Phones Currently On the Market