Android was blown up by a security breach
The root of the problem is to Apple?
Recently, Android devices have been exposed to security vulnerabilities, but unlike in the past, the root cause of the problem this time comes from Apple's lossless audio codec (ALAC).
As we all know, ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec) is an audio format introduced by Apple as early as 2004, and although Apple designed its own patented version of ALAC, there is still an open source version that Qualcomm and MediaTek rely on in Android smartphones.
However, given the huge share of 95% of Android devices in the U.S. market that come from Qualcomm and MediaTek, security firm Check Point pointed out that devices that have not yet installed the December 2021 Android Security Patch have "Out-of-Bounds" security vulnerabilities, and the problems with this security vulnerability are:
"ALAC issues can be used by attackers to perform remote code execution attacks (RCEs) on mobile devices through malformed audio files. RCE attacks allow an attacker to remotely execute malicious code on a computer. ”
Qualcomm has been using the CVE identification tag CVE-2021-30351 to track the vulnerability, while MediaTek has used CVE IDs CVE-2021-0674 and CVE-2021-0675. Technical jargon aside, vulnerabilities in open source Apple's NDT can be exploited by unprivileged Android apps that upgrade their system privileges to media data and device microphones. This basically means that the app can eavesdrop not only on phone conversations, but also on nearby conversations and other ambient sounds.
The latest rendering of the iPhone 14 Pro is exposed
The corner design is more rounded
Today, the well-known whistleblower Lan Zelbo released a set of latest iPhone 14 Pro renderings, he said that compared with the iPhone 13 Pro, the iPhone 14 Pro will have a larger fuselage rounded corners, that is, the fuselage is more rounded, this change is based on the rear camera module changes.
It is reported that the iPhone 14 Pro is expected to be equipped with a larger rear-facing lens module, equipped with a new 48-megapixel main camera and a 57% larger sensor. With the increase in camera module size, if you do not change the fuselage, it will cause the iPhone 14 Pro's lens module and the fuselage rounded corners to be too inconsistent, so it will appear visually incongruous.
Users who have used the iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro should also observe that the rear camera module and the rounded corners of the fuselage of the iPhone 12 Pro are almost exactly matched, while the iPhone 13 Pro is not matched. While the difference between the camera modules of the iPhone 12 Pro Max and iPhone 13 Pro Max is small, the difference between the iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro is large.
This year, as the size increases again, it may be that the lens module and the rounded corners of the fuselage of the iPhone 14 Pro are too inconsistent, resulting in Apple modifying the design. According to Zelbo, the new larger corner radius still doesn't exactly match the rounded corners of the rear camera module, but is significantly closer.
In general, based on the existing information, it can be basically determined that there are three changes in the appearance of the iPhone 14 Pro series, namely the use of punch screens, the enlargement of the rear camera module, and the larger rounded corners of the fuselage.
The Samsung Exynos 1280 chipset is released
5nm process with 108 million main cameras
Recently, Samsung officially released the Exynos 1280 chip, announcing that it will be installed on mobile phones such as A33, A53 and M33, and announcing its detailed parameters.
Official information shows that the Exynos 1280 chip is positioned in the mid-range. Manufactured using Samsung's 5nm EUV process, the CPU is 8 cores (consisting of two Cortex-A78 performance cores and six Cortex-A55 energy-efficient cores) and the GPU is handled by Arm Mali-G68, which supports Sub-6GHz and mmWave 5G networks. The new chip features fusion multiplication and multiplication (FMA) optimizations that will result in better power consumption and battery life.
The Exynos 1280 can handle FHD+ display refreshes up to 120Hz, and its Image Signal Processor (ISP) supports up to 108MP of main camera and up to three 16MP secondary cameras. Samsung has also added multi-frame image processing capabilities to make images sharper and complete the work of electronic image stabilization (EIS), 4K video recording and playback at 30fps.
In other data, the chip can support up to LPDDR4x memory and UFS v2.2 storage, and supports four-constellation multi-signaling for Bluetooth 5.2, FM broadcast Rx, L1 and L5 GNSS.
The iPhone 13 became the best-selling phone in recent years
The iPhone 12/13 mini sold poorly
Recently, the consumer data research institute CIRP released a report on the sales of different models of iPhone phones, in the March 2022 quarter of iPhone phone sales, iPhone 13 series new machine sales accounted for three-quarters of all iPhone sales, and iPhone 13 sales data is the best.
According to the report data, the iPhone 13 is the most popular, with a sales share of up to 38%, although it is not much improved compared with the previous model, but more people have started the new machine. The iPhone 13 mini market feedback is sluggish, the sales share accounted for only 3%, and last year's iPhone 12 mini market feedback effect is about the same, it is expected that the iPhone mini series will be cut or will become a reality.
In addition, in the March 2022 quarter, a considerable number of older iPhone phones were still purchased, including the iPhone 11, iPhone SE II and the older iPhone XR, accounting for 15% of sales. At present, the Internet has also broken the news of the iPhone 14 series, there will be no more iPhone 14 mini, but will add iPhone 14 Max to the original version, with a larger screen size.
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