Saturday APPreciation thread (Mar 18 2023) - Your weekly app recommendation/request thread!

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PSA: How to disable cellular/mobile network via "Settings" for Pixel 6 series due to security vulnerability

This post pertains to a security vulnerability that could allow a remote attacker to compromise the Pixel 6 series of phones without the user being required to do anything (they just need to know your phone number, they can attempt the attack in a distributed manner against every phone number once they reverse engineer the patch and figure out how to exploit the vulnerability). The attacker would be able to exploit the phone silently in the background with currently no way to detect if you've be...

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Exploiting aCropalypse: Recovering Truncated PNGs
https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/exploiting-acropalypse.html

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The Samsung Max VPN which comes with or is suggested for Samsung phone collects your IP address, URL's you visit and sells it third party companies. A VPN meant for privacy collects more data than some apps. (Privacy policy shared below)

Screenshot of the Privacy policy

Very weird that a VPN collects the sensitive data and then logs it and shares it with third party companies.

Not mention they also use facebook services and google ad services in the app.

Screenshot here

Also remember that the app is not a free vpn service it charges money....

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Honor Magic 5 Pro Review: Polished and Powerful, But Is It Enough?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=yUpp2yiYik4

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Is there a phone which can connect two two wifi networks at once?

Hi all, trying to get an answer on if there’s a phone or tablet which can connect two two wifi networks at the same time

I’m my situation I have one network which is my cars multimedia system, so I want to use that for screen mirroring

And the second network is a obd2 wifi dongle which I want to connect to at the same time for some info and gauges

I think I’m seeing that devices that have wifi Mimo might support this but I want to confirm...

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Camera Shootout: Xiaomi 13 Pro vs Honor Magic 5 Pro vs S23 Ultra
https://youtube.com/watch?v=33Exu_tWtU8

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Sunday Rant/Rage (Mar 19 2023) - Your weekly complaint thread!

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Google Messages preps voice recorder redesign [Gallery]
https://9to5google.com/2023/03/19/google-messages-voice-redesign/

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Daily Superthread (Mar 20 2023) - Your daily thread for questions, device recommendations and general discussions!

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Hands-on with 7+gen2 (Geekerwan_chinese)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYIMsxXLeUo

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March 2023 update available for Pixel 6 series
https://9to5google.com/2023/03/20/pixel-6-march-2023-update/

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Google Pixel Superfan: Google Bard Invite
https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/11wojpo/_/

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Tecno Phantom V Fold review
https://www.gsmarena.com/tecno_phantom_v_fold-review-2545.php

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PSA: The March Pixel update patched all 4 of the critical vulnerabilities that could exploit your phone remotely and silently with just your phone number (no user interaction required)

Per the Project Zero team lead tweet:
* The four severe Internet-to-baseband RCE vulns now have CVE-IDs
* Pixel just updated their March 2023 bulletin to show fixes for all four of the severe issues for Pixel 6 and 7
* I'm told that the Pixel 6 March OTA update is rolling out now.

Tweet link:
https://twitter.com/itswillis/status/1637902911899410434?t=HmYFmI2VJIX4zienJ23J-w&s=19

Project Zero advisory:
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2023/03/multiple-internet-to-baseband-remote-rce.html?m...

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Microsoft’s new Xbox mobile gaming store may launch in 2024
https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/20/23648112/microsoft-xbox-mobile-store-2024-launch

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Ox Shell, frontend/launcher app, just got approved on the Play Store!

Oxters168 has been working on Ox Shell for the better part of a year now. It is a customizable emulation front end, wallpaper service, file manager, and launcher all in one. They wanted it to look familiar, be functional, and to give that nostalgic feel. It currently has many features and it has a lot more planned for the future. It is an open source project so anyone can build on top of it or tweak it to their hear...

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Google urges Android phone users to switch off Wi-Fi calling
https://scrippsnews.com/stories/how-to-turn-off-wi-fi-calling-on-android-to-combat-hackers/

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ROG Phone 6 Diablo Immortal Edition | ROG Phone 6 Diablo Immortal Edition | Gaming Phones｜ROG - Republic of Gamers｜ROG Global
https://rog.asus.com/de/phones/rog-phone-6-diablo-immortal-edition-model/

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This Smartphone Hardware is Getting Crazy! [MKBHD on Oppo Find X6 Pro]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7zBJNmdImo

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Daily Superthread (Mar 21 2023) - Your daily thread for questions, device recommendations and general discussions!

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