Here's your iPhone now

Spot-on leak from year ago

A zoomer Italian YouTuber reviews upcoming Pixel stock
https://youtu.be/RJEsxIBQpUU

The short long telephoto module on top (with LYT-700, aka IMX906 (actually LYT-600, aka IMX882?)) of FX8U is menacingly beautiful.

And yet, in five years, many (or most?) of these units will be buried somewhere in a drawer, while fresh factory midrange will be far from keeping up with this camera setup. And all of this will mostly just happen thanks to missing bootloader unlock, missing availability of components and missing all of the obvious improvements it could get that will be reserved for upcoming devices.

Sad.

Haha.

Totally unrelated to the joke (except the device), but if I had a group for this channel, I'd ask you whether it's a capacitive or optical sensor. Honestly, I now wonder the same about the one from iPhone.

Everyone says it's capacitive on the iPhone. Now that's interesting, as granularity would benefit gesture precision (so you track a part of the finger rather than vague signal like a touchscreen, friction itself becomes the feedback). The only difference between a capacitive fingerprint sensor and a granular gesture sensing sensor is that the latter needs a higher polling rate and a smaller sampling area. Some day I'll read up about their bandwidth, perhaps the conspiracy theory of using the same component for both purposes is feasible xD

Okay, nice, but where's the OIS on tele? Missing it simply doesn't allow 13T to be more than an entry level high-end. Losing your tele indoors isn't a classic high-end experience.

BTW, these are the actual prices for everyone who can't rely on the Chinese subsidy program. If you're willing to get something from China through a forwarding agent, better look for units on Xianyu, aka Goofish, aka Idlefish, since people selling there would already spend their subsidy or have to otherwise compete with the official distribution.

Same applies to Redmi Turbo 4 Pro, this is the official price of units for outsiders

And this is with subsidy

The actual and best attestation of fears only comes years later when you're looking at pre-owned device market

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Under the requirements laid down in delegated acts adopted pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 or implementing measures adopted pursuant to Directive 2009/125/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (11), manufacturers are to provide access to spare parts, repair and maintenance information or any repair related software tools, firmware or similar auxiliary means. Those requirements ensure the technical feasibility of repair, not only by the manufacturer, but also by other repairers. As a consequence, the repairers and, where applicable, consumers will have access to spare parts and repair-related information and tools in accordance with Union legal acts and consumers will have a wider choice of repairers or, where applicable, the possibility to repair by themselves. Spare parts should be made available at least for the time period set out in Union legal acts. Manufacturers that make spare parts and tools available for goods covered by legal acts listed in Annex II to this Directive, whether because of corresponding legal obligations under Union law or voluntarily, should charge a reasonable price that does not deter access to such spare parts and tools, thereby preventing repair. To complement those measures, manufacturers should not use any contractual clauses, hardware or software techniques that impede the repair of goods for which there are repairability requirements set out in Union legal acts listed in Annex II to this Directive unless they are justified by legitimate and objective factors, including to prevent or restrict the unauthorised use of works and other subject matters protected by intellectual property rights under Union and national legal acts, in particular Directives 2001/29/EC (12), 2004/48/EC (13) and (EU) 2019/790 (14) of the European Parliament and of the Council. Consequently, this should encourage competition and benefit consumers with better services and lower repair prices.


https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32024L1799

Mandatory EDL access for third party service centers in the whole EU? 🤨

Aleph Research in total shambles (post from years ago)

EDL cables are a vulnerability, simply connecting a device to a supposed charging station should never become an entry of device compromise, but access to EDL itself is completely essential to avoid personal data and device loss, not to mention creation of ewaste.

If you're thinking of CMF Phone 2 Pro, remember that Moto Edge 50 Neo literally exists. Take what you want from it. 🙏

Now, what if we had a removable eUICC (a thing that currently has a nano SIM form factor, but functions just like an embedded eSIM chip, for example from 5ber.com or estk.me) that is a microSD Express card at the same time? It'd save physical space as much as possible while not adding another unchangeable identifier to your device like the embedded eSIM chips do.

Btw, if you're not poor, I believe the latter company is currently the best provider of removable eUICCs, both when it comes to feature set and openness. I just wish that this form of hardware will never die, it's sad to see dual eSIM American iPhones with 0 physical slots.

https://github.com/estkme-group