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Samsung promises to fix their latest broken iPhone wannabe real soon now

South Korean dishwasher maker Samsung said on Friday it will offer a software update for their Galaxy S22 phone “as soon as possible” to address settlers’ complaints about a preinstalled app – junkware – limiting the performance of the outfit’s latest pretend iPhone. Apple’s flagship 6.7-inch iPhone 13 Pro Max is a real iPhone Cho Mu-Hyun for ZDNet: The issue stems from the Game Optimising…

Disgraced Google executive Andy Rubin’s Essential shuts down

Essential Products, an Android smartphone peddler founded by disgraced Google executive Andy Rubin is shutting down, the comnpany confirmed Wednesday in a blog post.

Daisuke Wakabayashi and Erin Griffith for The New York Times:

Essential Products, a consumer electronics start-up founded by the former Google executive Andy Rubin, said on Wednesday that it was ceasing operations.

Once considered…

Toxic Hellstew: 146 new vulnerabilities all come preinstalled on Android phones

Brian Barrett for Wired:

When you buy an Android smartphone, it’s rarely pure Android. Manufacturers squeeze in their own apps or give it a fresh coat of interface. Carriers do it too. The resulting stew of preinstalled software and vanilla Android sometimes turns out to be rancid, putting flaws and vulnerabilities on the phone before you even take it out of the box. For proof of how bad it is,…

Pixel 3a: Google takes a desperate step into the Android morass of cheap commodity phones

”When Google decided to stop rebranding its partners’ Androids as Nexus models and launched its own Pixel phones three years ago, it targeted the camera as its best hope for standing out in a crowded, competitive smartphone market. That strategy failed in 2016, 2017, and in 2018,” Daniel Eran Dilger writes for Roughly Drafted. “This year, Pixel 3 sales are even worse. Now, Google is back with a…

Google launches ‘Pixel 3a’ Android phone for $399

”Alphabet Inc’s Google launched more affordable versions of its Pixel smartphone on Tuesday at about half the price of its current models, and dropped an exclusive U.S. distribution deal with Verizon Communications Inc, signaling a major shift in the tech giant’s hardware strategy,” Reuters reports. “Since hitting the market three years ago, the Pixel has been a slow seller compared to phones…

The maturing of the smartphone industry is cause for celebration

[cfsp key=”getamac.jpg”]”Analysts reckon that the number of smartphones sold in 2018 will be slightly lower than in 2017, the industry’s first ever annual decline,” The Economist writes. “That smartphone sales have peaked, and seem to be levelling off at around 1.4bn units a year, is good news for humanity.”

“Yes, they can be used for wasting time and spreading disinformation. But the good far…

South Korean dishwasher maker Samsung’s mobile profits fall as consumers pass on $1,000 iPhone knockoffs

“Samsung Electronics Co. may have misdialed on the $1,000 smartphone era,” Timothy W. Martin reports for The Wall Street Journal. “Fewer buyers than expected have shelled out top dollar for Samsung’s new flagship device, the Galaxy S9, with top-end versions approaching the $1,000 mark. The consumer rebuke, plus heavier marketing expenses, caused second-quarter mobile-unit profits to nosedive by…

Anti-iPhone X ads show why South Korean dishwasher maker Samsung keeps losing to Apple

“Samsung [has debuted] three new ads designed not to promote its own products, but to tarnish the image of a competing product,” Rado Slavov writes for phoneArena. “A classic case of a company in a losing position, frustrated by unsatisfactory results, and desperate to ‘make something happen.'”

“The three new ads join the others in Samsung’s ‘Ingenius’ series, which has almost nothing…