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Although smartphones now shoot amazing video, their form factor still makes them difficult to hold steady while filming. The SmallRig P20 is the latest device designed to address that shortcoming, and it folds into a compact capsule shape when not in u… Continue reading SmallRig P20 steadies smartphone videography, folds into a capsule
China’s OnePlus has once again tapped into the imaging expertise of Hasselblad for the camera system of its new flagship smartphone. The camera array gets a resolution bump, the 11 5G is powered by Qualcomm’s latest chipset, and fast charging juices th… Continue reading OnePlus sends triple Hasselblad cameras into a “black hole” bump
Yet another smartphone side-channel attack: “EarSpy: Spying Caller Speech and Identity through Tiny Vibrations of Smartphone Ear Speakers“:
Abstract: Eavesdropping from the user’s smartphone is a well-known threat to the user’s safety and privacy. Existing studies show that loudspeaker reverberation can inject speech into motion sensor readings, leading to speech eavesdropping. While more devastating attacks on ear speakers, which produce much smaller scale vibrations, were believed impossible to eavesdrop with zero-permission motion sensors. In this work, we revisit this important line of reach. We explore recent trends in smartphone manufacturers that include extra/powerful speakers in place of small ear speakers, and demonstrate the feasibility of using motion sensors to capture such tiny speech vibrations. We investigate the impacts of these new ear speakers on built-in motion sensors and examine the potential to elicit private speech information from the minute vibrations. Our designed system …
Continue reading Recovering Smartphone Voice from the Accelerometer
With a few notable exceptions, most smartphone cameras zoom either digitally or via a few optical zoom presets. That could soon change, however, as LG Innotek has announced its new Optical Telephoto Zoom Camera Module.Continue ReadingCategory: Mobile T… Continue reading New LG tech allows for continuous optical zooming on smartphone cameras
They’re using commercial phones, which go through the Ukrainian telecom network:
“You still have a lot of soldiers bringing cellphones to the frontline who want to talk to their families and they are either being intercepted as they go through a Ukrainian telecommunications provider or intercepted over the air,” said Alperovitch. “That doesn’t pose too much difficulty for the Ukrainian security services.”
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“Security has always been a mess, both in the army and among defence officials,” the source said. “For example, in 2013 they tried to get all the staff at the ministry of defence to replace our iPhones with Russian-made Yoto smartphones…
Continue reading Ukraine Intercepting Russian Soldiers’ Cell Phone Calls
Chinese electronics firm Xiaomi joined forces with imaging titan Leica last year for the 12S Ultra flagship smartphone, which also featured a new 1-inch-type Sony sensor. The company has repeated the formula for the 13 Series, which is also one of the … Continue reading Xiaomi treats 13 Series flagships to Leica optics and Snapdragon 8 Gen 2
Chinese mobile gadget maker Oppo has announced the launch of a second-generation folding phone, plus its first challenge to Samsung’s Flip. Both have launched in China, but the flip-style handset will become Oppo’s first foldable to be released in glob… Continue reading Oppo’s 2nd-gen foldable flagship joined by flip-style phone
There’s been talk of including a retractable lens in the camera array of a smartphone for a while now, with both Xiaomi and Oppo throwing their hats in the ring. But seemingly out of nowhere comes the Phantom X2 Pro from Tecno, which sports just such a… Continue reading Phantom X2 Pro flagship phone first with retractable portrait lens
Earlier in the year, mobile hardware company Honor launched a flagship foldable smartphone called the Magic V, but the former Huawei sub-brand released the handset in China only. Now its second folding phone, the Magic Vs, is pegged for international a… Continue reading Honor’s next-gen foldable phone to be available beyond China
While time-lapse videos can be quite striking, creating them usually involves leaving the camera in one place for the duration of the shoot. A new app allows such videos to be recorded on a smartphone, which can be moved and used for other things betwe… Continue reading App lets iPhones shoot time-lapse, without having to stay in one place