As we all know, Qualcomm and MediaTek are the world's main SoC chip manufacturers of Android mobile phones, and Qualcomm baseband chips account for more than 60%.
But recently, the German security company Nitrokey released an article saying that they found that Qualcomm Snapdragon chips collect mobile phone data and send it to Qualcomm's servers without going through Android and Google services.
The title of the article is "Smartphones With Popular Qualcomm Chip Secretly Share Private Information With US Chip-Maker", which translates to Qualcomm secretly sharing private information with American chipmakers.
Nitrokey tested with a Sony Xperia XA2 with a Snapdragon 630, and the phone's system was removed from Google services and no SIM card was inserted (only Wi-Fi was used to connect to the Internet).
But when Nitrokey used the Wireshark tool to capture packets, it found that the data would be transmitted to Qualcomm's izatcloud.net server, and the data was sent over HTTP protocol without additional encryption. This means that hackers, government agencies, network administrators, telecom operators, local and foreign countries can easily access this data.
Qualcomm subsequently responded that the data transfer was in accordance with the privacy policy of the XTRA service. This policy allows the collection of smartphone identifiers, chipset names, chipset serial numbers, XTRA software versions, mobile country codes and mobile network codes, carrier or operating system type and version, device make and model, list of programs on the device, IP address and other data.
On April 27 and 28, Meizu announced two news:
- Extend the use of the advance subscription rights of the Meizu 20 series to June 20, and purchase the machine during the right period can still enjoy 36 months long warranty and free cable film set and other benefits (this is possible)
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Another news is that Meizu said that it could not open the Flyme 10 closed test of the Meizu 17 series at the end of April (bounced tickets), because Meizu said that the underlying upgrade project was huge. The Meizu 18X's Flyme 10 closed beta will open recruitment on April 28.
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Also on April 28, 3 new HTC machines appeared on the Bluetooth SIG certification website. The phone models are 2QC9200, 2QC9100 and 2QCB100, all of which support Bluetooth 5.2 and Wi-Fi 6E.
According to the news, the new machine is equipped with the Qualcomm FastConnect 6700 subsystem, and the latter is the supporting chip of Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G/Snapdragon 7 Gen 1, so they may be the new machine of the "old Snapdragon 7 series".