Mostly they're just security patches from Google but sometimes, they ship new features such as ZEN mode. Sadly, this has to mentioned as a positive example. This could be achieved by third party apps like NetGuard on other devices. In my opinion, this has to be a basic Android feature. But Google does not seem to be willing to add features that limit network at all.
Therefore, people will still be hacked by simple apps that spy on them. Last year, I wrote about my ideal mobile phone. Since then, some things have changed. Having an audio jack has lost its "must have"-classification since I started to like my Bluetooth speakers. It's still a nice-to-have since, for example, playing sound in our car is still the most easiest tasks when using its phone audio connector. USB-C is an even more important nice-to-have since the direction of the plug doesn't matter any more.
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So my next mobile has to support my SoloKey. I still want to have a smaller device. Fortunately, case frame width has gone down. Therefore, a decent 6" display could be put into a relatively small device.
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I'm looking forward to see more of this. Currently, this German article on small smartphones seems to prove that there are no good Android phones available with decent camera and other mid- or high-end features. So, hardware producers: please put some phones on the market that target these requirements. North American orders were delayed by weeks, and they also found issues with the materials used on the USB cables not being up to snuff. This company is basically a series of poor decisions and subsequent apologies…with some smartphones mixed in.
In short, using the cable or adapter had the potential to fry the power source thanks to the dodgy resistors in their construction. It also noted that the cable and adapter were both safe to use with the OnePlus 2…just not other phones. Talk about a recipe for disaster. Pretty common. With that in mind, benchmark scores on the OnePlus 3t were manipulated to be higher than the actual performance would indicate. OnePlus was apparently targeting specific applications by name and pushing the CPU into a specific scaling mode to push the stores higher than they would normally have been.
But it was, because OnePlus got busted for maximizing benchmark scores again with the OnePlus 5. Because it was upside down, the screen refreshed from bottom to top instead of the top to bottom , causing some interesting issues when scrolling. You may be wondering why the display was intentionally placed upside-down, and for that I turn to XDA for some well-researched speculation :.
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But why would they need to do this all in the first place? Take a look at what is placed at the top of the smartphone — the dual camera and some antennas. Like with any decision involving where to place components in a smartphone, it likely came down to space considerations. With limited space, the company had to decide where to place each component so everything would fit.
- cellphone monitoring application Galaxy A50;
- smartphone Tinder location Alcatel 5V;
- cell number track for Nokia 6.2;
Since the dual lens camera, which is new to the OnePlus line-up, takes up more space than a single lens camera it is possible the company moved the motherboard — and hence flipped the display panel — in order to accommodate the new camera module. In June of —after telling users that Nougat would be available for the OnePlus 2 —OnePlus confirmed that the 2 would not get the Nougat update and had in fact reached its end of life at Marshmallow.
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In , a OnePlus 5 owner saw a building on fire, tried to call , and the phone rebooted. Even phones without a SIM card are supposed to be able to make emergency calls. Fortunately, the company rolled out a fix pretty quickly. But such an issue should not have existed in the first place. In October of , it was revealed that OxygenOS was collecting data about device usage —a fairly common thing among smartphone manufacturers. Just a few days after this data collection was revealed, OnePlus responded to the backlash by limiting the amount of data collected moving forward.
By the end of October, all OnePlus phones running OxygenOS will have a prompt in the setup wizard that asks users if they want to join our user experience program. The setup wizard will clearly indicate that the program collects usage analytics. In addition, we will include a terms of service agreement that further explains our analytics collection. Just a month after the discovery of OnePlus collecting user data without approval, another vulnerability was found that allowed many OnePlus phones to be rooted without unlocking the bootloader, through a backdoor called EngineerMode. Security researchers at NowSecure looked deeper into the issue and provided a more in-depth explanation of its capabilities here.
The actual breach happened between November of and January , at which point OnePlus finally figured out what was going on and halted credit card transactions. OnePlus will be providing affected customers with a year of free credit monitoring, which is a paltry restitution. As per the norm, however, OnePlus had a response: this was accidentally included in the OxygenOS beta from their HydrogenOS the operating system the company uses on its Chinese handsets.
In a statement to Android Police , this is what OnePlus had to say about it:.
We were testing a similar feature in the HydrogenOS beta. The code is entirely inactive in the open beta for OxygenOS , our global operating system. No user data is being sent to any server without consent in OxygenOS. In the open beta for HydrogenOS, our operating system for the China market, the identified folder exists in order to filter out what data to not upload. Local data in this folder is skipped over and not sent to any server. On the upside, at least this was discovered in a beta build, before the final version was sent to the masses.
They started off as poor decisions from a a young company—asking customers to destroy their phones or ladies to post selfies as part of a contest are both foolhardy at best, but not all that damning. But then the issue continued to get worse. Selling USB-C cables that could literally damage or destroy user hardware and collecting user data without permission are both bad.
Phones rebooting during calls and backdoors that allowed easy root access by attackers are worse. Look, I get why Android fans like OnePlus. This company consistently shows its lack of responsibility towards customers—both potential and current. And yet people continue to fawn over them. The Best Tech Newsletter Anywhere.
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