I was planning to write some article on the mobile trends on this year based on news-feed from MWC 2020 mobile event, but MWC canceled because of Coronavirus COVID-19. And so some other events.
Here are some trends:
It seems that smart phones seem to have as much excitement when a new model is released. Usually there is no new feature that renders the latest model an absolute must-have. Apart from potential prestige, there’s usually very little difference to the user whether the phone cost $300 or $1200.
People still remember the failed promise of foldable phones and 5G. For those 2019 had been a year of failed promises.
Along with foldable displays, the fifth generation of networking technology was touted as being the next big thing in the mobile business. It seems that year 2020 will be a real test for 5G if it will really take on or fails to full-fill the big expectations. This year will be the real test for 5G devices as the 5G device mass market has not yet really started. Read more on that on my 5G trends 2020 post.
The smartphones market was valued at USD 714.96 billion in 2019. It was expected to reach USD 1351.8 billion by 2025, at a CAGR of 11.2%. But it seems that this year does not meet those expectations, as IDC expects Smartphone market to drop 2.3% in 2020 due to coronavirus. COVID-19 outbreak is expected to result into 10.6 percent drop in the first half of 2020 and China’s smartphone market will drop by nearly 40 percent year over year in the first quarter. The SMEs in the phone industry, especially retail channel partners, will see the biggest effect.
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3G Sunset Spells Trouble for Many Medical Tracking Devices
https://www.eetimes.com/3g-sunset-spells-trouble-for-many-medical-tracking-devices/
Amidst the (hopefully) final throes of a brutal global pandemic, seniors and their families in the U.S. this year will face additional problems in 2022. The closure of major 3G networks will mean the end of the line for older mobile personal emergency response system (mPERS) devices used by the elderly across America.
Hundreds of thousands of these vital medical tracking devices will be rendered inoperable by the 3G shutdown, leaving elderly users and caregivers scrambling to switch to 4G and Wi-Fi-based devices. The upgrade cost, at least $150, comes at a time of great economic hardship for many ordinary folk.
The first Personal Emergency Response System (PERS) units were invented in Germany in the early 1970s. Initial PERS were bulky, and used a pendant linked to a landline phone, which tied the elderly to their home.
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IDC:
Wearable device shipments for 2020 grew 28.4% to 444.7M units globally, led by Apple which grew 27.2% in Q4 and has 36.2% marketshare, followed by Xiaomi at ~9% — Worldwide shipments of wearable devices reached 153.5 million in the fourth quarter of 2020 (4Q20), a year-over-year increase …
Consumer Enthusiasm for Wearable Devices Drives the Market to 28.4% Growth in 2020, According to IDC
https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS47534521
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Allison Johnson / The Verge:
Samsung updates its mid-range Galaxy lineup: 6.5″ A52 and A52 5G, from ~$415, and 6.7″ A72, from ~$535, with 90Hz or 120Hz displays, better cameras, and more — The A-series phones will also include IP67 ratings, brighter screens, and expandable microSD storage
Samsung’s midrange phones now feature fast refresh rate screens, stabilized cameras
https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/17/22334392/samsung-galaxy-a52-5g-a72-specs-price-camera?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4
The A-series phones will also include IP67 ratings, brighter screens, and expandable microSD storage
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Sohee Kim / Bloomberg:
Samsung says it is considering skipping launch of a new Note this year to streamline its lineup and warns of a “serious imbalance” in semiconductors globally
Samsung Warns of Severe Chip Crunch While Delaying Key Phone
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-17/samsung-warns-of-serious-imbalance-in-the-chips-industry
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You don’t need a new phone, so here’s how to keep your old one running like new
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/27/how-to-keep-your-old-phone-running-like-new.html
KEY POINTS
You might love your old phone but just have a few concerns about battery life or storage.
Or maybe your phone works perfectly, but just has some cosmetic damage.
Here’s how to keep your old phone working like new.
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Daily Crunch: Google Play halves commission on developers’ first $1M
https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/16/daily-crunch-google-play-halves-commission-on-developers-first-1m/
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Unlocking The Hidden Lasers on Your Phone To Make 3D Images
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4n2DRHdrO0&feature=share
In this video I show you how to make 3d images using the the VSCEL lasers. I show you how you can see these IR lasers using a security camera. I talk about how the lasers can be so small.
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A $200 phone that can do ANYTHING!!! – Pine64 Pinephone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCKMxzz9cjs
Since we did the Librem Linux Smartphone, we were FLOODED with comments asking to do the Pinephone. Well, here it is, and of course, we had to get Anthony to check it out.
Check out the Pine64 Pinephone at https://lmg.gg/YvZBg
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Jay Peters / The Verge:
Google announces upgrades to Maps, including indoor AR directions, a new directions interface including eco-friendly driving routes, and new weather map layers — Indoor AR directions, a new directions interface, and more — Google is announcing a bunch of new features planned for Google Maps …
Google is making some big upgrades to directions in Google Maps
Indoor AR directions, a new directions interface, and more
https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/30/22357528/google-maps-directions-indoor-ar-live-view-fuel-efficient-weather-air-quality-layer?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4
Google is announcing a bunch of new features planned for Google Maps, including a new tool to help with indoor navigation and suggestions for eco-friendly driving routes. The features announced today aren’t rolling out all at once, though; many aren’t available just yet, and it’s unclear when some will be available in some parts of the world.
One of the biggest announcements is that Google is bringing its Live View augmented reality directions to airports, transit stations, and malls. Live View directions let you hold your phone up, point your camera at the world around you, and see arrows and icons pointing you where you need to go, and previously, they only worked outdoors.
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David McLaughlin / Bloomberg:
FTC abandons its antitrust lawsuit against Qualcomm, says it won’t seek a Supreme Court review of a 2020 federal appeals court decision that acquitted Qualcomm — – FTC declines to seek Supreme Court review of monopoly case — Company was accused of abusing dominance in cell-phone chips
U.S. Abandons Four-Year Antitrust Battle Against Qualcomm
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-29/u-s-abandons-four-year-antitrust-battle-against-qualcomm
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Microsoft Wins $22 Billion Deal Making Headsets for US Army
https://www.securityweek.com/microsoft-wins-22-billion-deal-making-headsets-us-army
Microsoft won a nearly $22 billion contract to supply U.S. Army combat troops with its augmented reality headsets.
Microsoft and the Army separately announced the deal Wednesday.
Microsoft wins U.S. Army contract for augmented reality headsets, worth up to $21.9 billion over 10 years
Published Wed, Mar 31 20213:00 PM EDTUpdated Wed, Mar 31 20217:15 PM EDT
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/31/microsoft-wins-contract-to-make-modified-hololens-for-us-army.html
Microsoft will deliver to the U.S. Army more than 120,000 devices based on its HoloLens augmented reality headset.
The deal, which could be worth as much as $21.88 billion over 10 years, follows a contract Microsoft received to build prototype headsets for the Army.
The contract comes a year and a half after Microsoft won a cloud contract from the Pentagon that could be worth up to $10 billion.
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Exclusive: Pixel 6 will be powered by new Google-made ‘Whitechapel’ chip
https://9to5google.com/2021/04/02/pixel-6-google-gs101-whitechapel/
9to5Google can report today that Google’s upcoming phones for this fall, including the presumed Pixel 6, will be among the first devices to run on the “GS101” Whitechapel chip.
During an earnings call last fall, Google CEO Sundar Pichai teased “some deeper investments in hardware” and that there was a “terrific roadmap ahead” in 2021. Many interpreted that as a confirmation that Google would be developing their own processors, an effort codenamed “Whitechapel.”
First rumored in early 2020, Whitechapel is an effort on Google’s part to create their own systems on a chip (SoCs) to be used in Pixel phones and Chromebooks alike, similar in to how Apple uses their own chips in the iPhone and Mac. Google was said to be co-developing Whitechapel with Samsung, whose Exynos chips rival Snapdragon processors in the Android space.
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Sensor Tower: US iPhone users spent an average of $138 on apps in 2020, up 38% YoY, the greatest annual growth since 2016, with spending on games growing 43%
https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/01/u-s-iphone-users-spent-average-of-138-on-apps-in-2020-to-grow-to-180-in-2021/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGVjaG1lbWUuY29tLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAADpqdO7Wz9KVfTD9VyfdTnGfY_vWppmVm6v9ImwpEYQBCl3auD0jQVlgWs_U-CdvBPF-BCUyRkFGguasg7ipjLFLv302fXH4jhPUfPfyHZ2uTqlqQwDiqAdPHfv3UPwn-_IvhGLVtb6T9SgTsw-0tyhmzjZgaEYmX8Hw2GfKqZl9
Tomi Engdahl says:
After 12 years of being an Android OEM, LG has had enough. The Korean company announced late last night that it is officially quitting the smartphone market; it plans to close up shop on the entire business by July 31, 2021.
After a decade of failure, LG officially quits the smartphone market
LG’s mobile division calls it quits after 23 consecutive money-losing quarters.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/04/after-a-decade-of-failure-lg-officially-quits-the-smartphone-market/
After 12 years of being an Android OEM, LG has had enough. The Korean company announced late last night that it is officially quitting the smartphone market; it plans to close up shop on the entire business by July 31, 2021.
The news doesn’t come as much of a surprise, since LG has been preparing the public for this decision for some time. LG’s mobile division has had 23 consecutive money-losing quarters, and its last profitable year was in 2014. In January 2020, LG Electronics’ then-brand-new CEO Kwon Bong-seok promised that the troublesome division would be profitable by 2021. That message was apparently “profitability or bust” because by January 2021, LG was warning the public that it would have to make “a cold judgment” about the future of the mobile division. Local media reports claim that LG explored selling the division but couldn’t find a buyer.
It’s not clear what will happen to what feels like “LG’s last smartphone,” the LG Rollable. The flexible-display smartphone was announced at CES 2021, and while the expanding display mechanism was identical to concepts and prototypes from other companies, LG promised that the phone would actually launch in “early 2021.” LG’s press release did not disclose what will happen to the Rollable, but rumors saying the phone might be canceled started circulating almost immediately after it was announced. We won’t hold our breath.
Tomi Engdahl says:
LG was a smartphone pioneer. Now it’s quitting the business
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/04/05/tech/lg-electronics-exiting-smartphone-business-intl-hnk/index.html
LG is getting out of the “incredibly competitive” business of making smartphones.
On Monday, the South Korean tech giant announced that it would close down its mobile phone unit after years of losses, marking the end of an era for a trailblazer in the Android world.
The division is expected to be wound down by July 31, although the company may continue to sell some of its existing models after that, according to LG Electronics.
The “strategic decision to exit the incredibly competitive mobile phone sector will enable the company to focus resources in growth areas such as electric vehicle components, connected devices, smart homes, robotics, artificial intelligence and business-to-business solutions,” the company said in a statement.
LG was once one of the world’s top smartphone makers, even making the top three back in 2013, according to research firm Strategy Analytics.
LG has officially quit making phones – here’s what’s next
By Matt Swider 05 April 2021
The focus will be 6G, EVs, IoT and B2B Solutions, according to LG
https://www.techradar.com/news/lg-has-officially-quit-making-phones-heres-whats-next
LG has official quit making phones today, according to an official press release, so we won’t see new LG smartphones in 2021. This announcement isn’t going to surprise anyone in the mobile space, as the move has been rumored for several weeks.
This means two things. First, we won’t see phones like the rumored LG V70 ThinQ, LG G10 or LG Velvet 2, as the company is closing its entire mobile business unit. We probably won’t see the LG Rollable the company teased at CES 2021 and confirmed would be released in 2021, either. LG calls the move a “strategic decision to exit the incredibly competitive mobile phone sector.”
Second, LG says this means it’ll be free to focus resources on growth areas, citing a whole list of sectors where its brand is better positioned: “electric vehicle components, connected devices, smart homes, robotics, artificial intelligence and business-to-business solutions, as well as platforms and services.”
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What If You Put Nokia 3310 Inside of a Particle Accelerator? Real Test!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9_wupYj02M
What will happen if you put Nokia 3310 inside of a particle accelerator? Or pickle? And will aluminium foil hat protect you from the beam in case you put your head inside of particle accelerator. We are going to use 10MeV particle accelerator located in University of Helsinki to find out!
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The Supreme Court sided with Google in its epic copyright fight against Oracle
https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/05/supreme-court-google-oracle-ruling/?tpcc=ECFB2021
The highest court in the land has a lot to say about tech this week. The Supreme Court weighed in on Google’s long legal battle with Oracle on Monday, overturning a prior victory for the latter company that could have resulted in an $8 billion award.
In a 6-2 decision, the court ruled that Google didn’t break copyright laws when it incorporated pieces of Oracle’s Java software language into its own mobile operating system. Google copied Oracle’s code for Java APIs for Android, and the case kicked off a yearslong debate over the reuse of established APIs and copyright.
In 2018, a federal appeals court ruled that Google did in fact violate copyright law by using the APIs and that its implementation didn’t fall under fair use.
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Aamir Siddiqui / XDA Developers:
Google announces the Android Open Source Project now supports Rust for developing the OS itself, providing more memory safety guarantees than C and C++ — Android as a complete OS solution involves a lot of moving parts. Very broadly speaking, these parts are the app ecosystem and then the OS itself.
Google is developing parts of Android in Rust to improve security
https://www.xda-developers.com/google-developing-android-rust/
For app developers, Java and Kotlin are popular options. For developers working on the OS and the lower levels within it, C and C++ have been popular choices so far. Today, Google is adding a third option for OS developers, as the Android Open Source Project now supports the Rust programming language for developing the OS itself.
Limitations of C and C++
Lower levels of the Android OS require systems programming languages like C and C++. These languages provide developers with control and predictability, which is important when accessing low-level system resources and hardware.
Unfortunately, C and C++ fail to provide memory safety guarantees, making them prone to bugs and security vulnerabilities. The developer is responsible for managing memory lifetime on these languages, but in complex and multi-threaded codebases, that is easier said than done.
C and C++ together constitute tens of millions of lines of code on the Android platform. These memory safety bugs become the most difficult-to-address source of incorrectness of code, representing ~70% of Android’s high severity security vulnerabilities. Merely fixing these bugs becomes insufficient to deal with the issue, and a better approach would be to prevent them in the first place.
The lack of memory safety guarantees forces developers to run Android processes within tightly constrained and unprivileged sandboxes. But sandboxes are expensive on resources, consuming additional overhead and introducing latency. Sandboxing also doesn’t eliminate the code’s vulnerabilities entirely, and its efficacy is reduced because of high bug density, further allowing attackers to chain multiple vulnerabilities.
Another limitation, though not unique to C and C++ but applicable to all memory safety issues, is that the erroneous state must actually be triggered in instrumented code in order to be detected. So even if your code has excellent testing, the actual bug may stay undetected. And when bugs are found, getting them fixed is another task, involving a long and costly process that may not always lead to a correct fix. Thus, bug detection becomes unreliable, and bug prevention is the better approach to take in light of these limitations.
This is where the switch to a memory-safe language like Rust comes into the picture.
Rust and its benefits
Rust provides memory safety guarantees by using a combination of compile-time checks to enforce object lifetime/ownership, and runtime checks to ensure that memory accesses are valid. This safety is achieved while providing equivalent performance to C and C++. Rust also reduces the need for sandboxing, allowing developers more overhead room to introduce new features that are safer and lighter on resources.
While Rust does indeed have its benefits, it’s not feasible to switch the entire Android OS to Rust overnight. And that might not even be needed, as most of Android’s memory bugs occur in new or recently modified code, with about 50% being less than a year old. Google believes that its memory-safe language efforts are best focused on new developments rather than rewriting mature C and C++ code.
Rust also focuses on preventing bugs rather than leaning heavily on the detection of bugs, resulting in improved correctness of code. It has several key features, such as memory safety, data concurrency, more expressive type systems, immutable references and variables by default, safer integer handling, better error handling in standard libraries, and much more.
Google says that it has been adding Rust support to the Android Open Source Project for the past 18 months. But adding a new language to the Android platform is an enormous undertaking. Some toolchains and dependencies need to be maintained, test infrastructure and tooling must be updated, and developers need to be trained.
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Oululainen Bittium on saanut Traficomilta Tough Mobile 2 C -älypuhelimelleen virallisen III-tason kansallisen tietoturvaluokituksen. Luokitus koskee myös siihen liittyvää Secure Suite -taustajärjestelmää.
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Makena Kelly / The Verge:
The FCC releases a speed test app on Android and iOS to help measure internet speeds in the US, and will use the data to inform its broadband deployment efforts
The FCC wants you to test your internet speeds with its new app
The FCC Speed Test App could help the agency correct its data
https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/12/22379848/fcc-speed-test-app-google-apple-download-broadband-maps-coverage?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4
The Federal Communications Commission has released a new speed test app to help measure internet speeds across the country, available on both Android and iOS.
The FCC Speed Test App works similarly to existing speed-testing apps like Ookla’s and Fast by Netflix, automatically collecting and displaying data once users press the “start testing” button. According to the FCC, the data collected through the app will inform the agency’s efforts to collect more accurate broadband speed information and aid its broadband deployment efforts.
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Sony toi kännyköihin neljä linssivaihtoehtoa
https://www.uusiteknologia.fi/2021/04/14/sony-toi-kannykoihin-nelja-linssivaihtoehtoa/
Järjestelmäkameroitakin valmistava Sony tuo niiden tekniikoita entistä voimallisemmin uusiin kännykkämalleihin. Kalleimmissa uutuusmalleissa on teleoptiikkana neljä linssivaihtoehtoa: 16, 24, 70, 105 millimetriä.
Sony tuo Xperia 1 III – ja Xperia 5 III -malleissa tarjolle maailman ensimmäisen älypuhelimiin suunnitellun säädettävän telekuvalinssin yhdistettynä kaksoiskuvadiodikennoon ja 120 hertsin 4K-tarkkuuden ja ykkösessä 6,5 kokoiseen ja viitosmallissa 6,1 tuuman Cinewide (21:9) HDR OLED-näyttöön.
Kännyköiden telelinsseillä voidaan Sonyn mukaan saavuttaa jopa 105 millin polttoväli sekä nopea automaattitarkennus Dual PDAF -anturin avulla. 70 millin ja 105 millin välillä tarkennus säätyy hetkessä esimerkiksi yksityiskohtakuvauksiin. Kameroiden tarkkuus on 12 megapikseliä ja etukameran kahdeksan.
Vaihtuva polttoväli Sonyn uusimman vetonaula
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/12012-vaihtuva-polttovali-sonyn-uusimman-vetonaula
Sekä Xperia 1 III että hieman ominaisuuksiltaan riisuttu Xperia 5 III käyttävät 12 megapikselin kennoihin perustuvaa kolmoiskameraa. Pääkamera ja laajakulmakamera jäävät tällä kertaa sivuosaan, sillä telekamerassa linssirakenne on periskooppimainen. Siinä polttoväli on joko 70 tai 105 millimetriä.
Tämän ansiosta kamerat tarjoavat sekä 2,9- että 4,9-kertaisen optisen suurennoksen. Kaikki kamerat tarjoavat PDAF-automaattitarkennuksen. Linssit ovat jälleen Sonyn ja Zeissin yhteistyötä.
Xperia 1 III ja Xperia 5 III on kehitetty yhdessä Sonyn Alpha-kamerasarjan luoneiden insinöörien kanssa. Molemmissa malleissa on nopea ja täsmällinen jatkuva AF-seuranta kaikissa linsseissä ja reaaliaikainen Eye AF -toiminto. Xperia 5 III:ssa on myös kohteenseurantateknologiaa, jolla kuvaaja voi ottaa teräviä kuvia liikkuvista kohteista monenlaisissa eri tilanteissa vain näyttöä koskettamalla.
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Microsoft Research has developed a smartphone-based, contactless AI app that enables doctors to sense a patient’s pulse and breathing rate from just a video clip – inferring vital stats from skin reflectivity & head/body motions.
Smartphone Camera Senses Patients’ Pulse, Breathing Rate
https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/devices/smartphone-camera-senses-patients-pulse-breathing-rate
Telehealth visits increased dramatically when the pandemic began—by over 4000% in the U.S., by one account. But there’s a limit to what doctors can accomplish during these virtual appointments. Namely, they can’t check patients’ vital signs over the phone.
But new technologies in the works could change that by equipping phones with reliable software that can measure a person’s key biometrics. This month at a conference held by the Association for Computing Machinery, researchers presented machine learning systems that can generate a personalized model to measure heart and breathing rates based on a short video taken with a smartphone camera.
With just an 18-second video clip of a person’s head and shoulders, the algorithm can determine heart rate, or pulse, based on the changes in light intensity reflected off the skin. Breathing rate, or respiration, is gleaned from the rhythmic motion of their head, shoulders and chest.
“Currently there’s no way to do remote vitals collection except for a very small minority of patients who have medical-grade devices at home,” such as a pulse oximeter to detect heart rate and blood oxygen level, or a blood pressure cuff, says McDuff.
Most people don’t own those devices, so for the vast majority of virtual appointments, patients must arrange separate in-person appointments to get these measurements. “That’s doubly inefficient. It takes twice the amount of time as a typical in-person visit, and with less human interaction,” McDuff says.
Video-based software that can collect vitals during a telehealth appointment would greatly streamline virtual health care.
Several groups globally have been developing non-contact, video-based vitals sensing.
Google in February announced that its Android-based health tracking platform Google Fit will measure heart and respiratory rate using the phone’s camera. The user places a finger over the rear-facing camera on the phone to get heart rate, and video of the user’s face gathers breathing rate. The software is meant for wellness purposes rather than medical use or doctor visits.
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Älypuhelin on ympäristörikollinen
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/12033-alypuhelin-on-ymparistorikollinen
Ilman älypuhelimia ei tulisi toimeen, mutta kyse on raskaan sarjan ympäristörikollisesta. Puhelimien kierrätyksestä menestyvät bisneksen luonut kotimainen Swappie muistuttaa, että älypuhelinten aiheuttamat hiilidioksidipäästöt ovat kasvaneet 730 prosenttia viimeisen kymmenen vuoden aikana. Viime vuonna älypuhelimien takia hiilidioksidia tuprahti ilmakehään 125 megatonnia. Määrä vastaa 505 574 miljoonan tavallisella henkilöautolla ajetun kilometrin päästöjä.
Swappie muistuttaa, että osasyy päästöjen hurjaan kasvuun on kuluttajien halu saada käyttöönsä puhelinten uusimmat mallit. Kun kuluttaja ostaa uuden puhelimen, jää aiempi puhelin usein piironginlaatikkoon pölyttymään. Eurooppalaisissa kodeissa lojuu käyttämättömänä arviolta lähes 700 miljoonaa älypuhelinta.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Älypuhelimen valmistus aiheuttaa 85–95 prosenttia laitteen hiilijalanjäljestä.
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OnePlus 9:n wifi-piiri on markkinoiden edistynein
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/12080-oneplus-9-n-wifi-piiri-on-markkinoiden-edistynein
OnePlussan uusi 9-sarja pitää sisällään joukon uusia innovaatioita. Yksi niistä on tuki uudella WiFi 6 -tekniikalle ja jopa kuuden gigahertsin taajuuksille. Wifi-piirin puhelimiin on toimittanut NXP Semiconductors.
NXP kertoo, että kyseessä on markkinoiden ensimmäinen QFN-koteloitu piiri, joka tukee WiFi 6 -yhteyksiä sekä uusia 6E-taajuuksia. Tämän ansiosta premium-luokan wifi-yhteydet on saatu toteutettua selvästi aiempaa pienemmässä tilassa.
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https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/12094-korona-on-ohi-alypuhelimissa
Tutkimuslaitos Canalys kertoo, että vuoden ensimmäisellä neljänneksellä myytiin 347,4 miljoonaa älypuhelinta. Määrä on 27 prosenttia suurempi kuin vuotta aikaisemmin ja osoittaa, että markkinoilla on palattu suurin piirtein koronaa edeltävälle tasolle.
Myös vuosina 2018 ja 2019 ensimmäisellä neljänneksellä myytiin reilut 340 miljoonaa älypuhelinta. Viime vuonna määrä putosi 272,5 miljoonaan. Pudotus oli seurausta koronapandemian aiheuttamasta taloudellisesta pysähdyksestä.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Tänä vuonna myydään 1,53 miljardia älypuhelinta
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/12107-tana-vuonna-myydaan-1-53-miljardia-alypuhelinta
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/12113-qualcommin-modeemin-haavoittuvuus-uhkaa-miljoonia
Tomi Engdahl says:
Sonyn huippupuhelimessa HDMI-liitäntä ensimmäistä kertaa maailmassa
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/12114-sonyn-huippupuhelimessa-hdmi-liitanta-ensimmaista-kertaa-maailmassa
Sony on lanseerannut uuden Xperia PRO -puhelimen Euroopan markkinoille. Kyse on ammattikuvaajille ja sisällöntuottajille suunnattu, kallis huippumalli, jonka erikoisuutena on maailman ensimmäinen älypuhelimesta löytyvä HDMI-sisääntulo.
HDMI-micro-liitännän ansiosta Xperia Pro voidaan liittää mihin tahansa HDMI-lähdöllä varustettuun kameraan. Tämän jälkeen puhelimen 5G-yhteyttä voi käyttää vaikkapa livelähetyksen reaaliaikaiseen jakamiseen. Käyttämällä yhteensopivaa kolmannen osapuolen suoratoistopalvelua Xperia PRO voi suoratoistaa videosisältöä kamerasta esimerkiksi suoraan valittuun sosiaalisen median -palveluun.
Xperia PRO:n HDMI-sisääntulo myös tekee laitteesta korkealaatuisen 6,5 tuuman 4K OLED-kameranäytön
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.uusiteknologia.fi/2021/05/06/sony-tuo-hdmi-liitannan-pro-tason-kannykkaan/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Phantom Pocket Vibration Syndrome
What does it tell us about our obsession with technology?
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/rewired-the-psychology-technology/201305/phantom-pocket-vibration-syndrome
Have you had this experience? If you keep your phone in your pocket, you sometimes (maybe even often) feel a vibration in the skin adjacent to your pocket and pull out your mobile phone, assuming it is a text or some sort of notification, only to discover that it was a phantom vibration. Or, if you keep your phone in a purse or satchel, you imagine that you heard it vibrating, or even ringing, only to discover that it was a false alarm.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Make Android’s New Power Menu Work On Your Terms
https://hackaday.com/2021/05/14/make-androids-new-power-menu-work-on-your-terms/
Introduced in Android 11, the power menu is a way to quickly interact with smart home gadgets without having to open their corresponding applications. Just hold the power button for a beat, and you’ll be presented with an array of interactive tiles for all the gadgets you own. Well that’s the idea, anyway.
[Mat] of “NotEnoughTech” wasn’t exactly thrilled with how this system worked out of the box, so he decided to figure out how he could create his own power menu tiles.
Android Power Menu for your DIY smart home
You are in charge of what goes in!
https://notenoughtech.com/tasker/android-power-menu-for-your-diy-smart-home/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Dieter Bohn / The Verge:
Google details Android 12′s new design, based on the flexible Material You system, with better widgets and buttons, more animation, privacy features, and more — There are new features, but it’s the biggest design update in years — Google is announcing the latest beta for Android 12 today …
https://www.theverge.com/22439777/android-12-design-features-widgets-first-look-google?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4
Michael Simon / Macworld:
Android 12 offers new privacy protections including a Privacy Dashboard, mic and camera access toggles in Quick Settings, but stops short of Apple’s ATT — Android 12 ups Google’s privacy game—with one exception. — On Tuesday, Google unveiled the highlights of Android 12 …
https://www.macworld.com/article/346892/android-12s-new-privacy-settings-draw-a-clear-line-between-google-and-apple.html
Tomi Engdahl says:
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google debuts Material You design language, letting users personalize the look of apps and the OS, coming to Pixels this fall, then to Chrome OS, the web, more — “Material You” is Google’s “radical new way to think about design.” It’s a hyper-personalized approach to designing custom appearances …
https://9to5google.com/2021/05/18/material-you-is-googles-new-personalized-design-language/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Erik Kay / The Keyword:
Google says it’s working on a new digital car key feature for Android 12 to unlock or start your car, announces Fast Pair for faster Bluetooth pairing, and more
https://blog.google/products/android/better-together/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google:
Google says Android now powers over 3B active devices worldwide, up from 2.5B in 2019 and 2B in 2017
https://9to5google.com/2021/05/18/android-now-powers-over-3-billion-devices/
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.uusiteknologia.fi/2021/05/20/e-sim-yleistyy-alykelloissa/
Tomi Engdahl says:
I installed an open-source operating system on my phone, freeing it from corporate control and guaranteeing my privacy. And then everything went wrong.
I Killed Google and My Phone Almost Died
https://uk.pcmag.com/features/121064/i-killed-google-and-my-phone-almost-died
I set out on a journey to sidestep Google’s version of Android and instead use free, private, and secure open-source alternatives on my phone. I made some stupid mistakes, including potentially bursting into flames, but I learned a lot along the way.
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/12178-tutkimus-mobiilisovellukset-vuotavat-tietojasi