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Monday, October 1, 2018

That is my NEXT -- THE BEST PHONE TO BUY RIGHT NOW

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There are a lot of great smartphone options available at any given moment, so it can be a challenge to sort through them all if you’re trying to choose the absolute best one. The stakes here can’t be understated: your smartphone is the most important gadget in your life, and you’ll probably be living with the one you buy for at least a year, if not two or three.

Most of the time, there's a phone that stands out from the pack in all the areas that matter: performance, value, camera, and support. But this year, depending on who you ask, you could get as many as four different answers for what the best phone is to buy. And depending on what kind of phone user you are, any one of them could be the ideal phone for you.

THE ABSOLUTE BEST PHONE: APPLE IPHONE X

Apple’s latest iPhone isn’t just the most interesting iPhone in years, but it’s easily the best smartphone ever made. The iPhone X has almost everything you could think to ask for in a smartphone: blazing-fast performance, a gorgeous display, top-of-the-class cameras, loud, clear speakers, reliable battery life, and a head-turning design. In addition, the X is water resistant and can be recharged with a wireless pad. The main thing that most people will miss is a standard headphone jack.

Apple’s extensive support system, through both its own and carrier stores, is another incredibly important point in the iPhone's favor. There’s simply no other company that provides as much support for a smartphone after you purchase it. On top of that, since it’s an iPhone, the iPhone X enjoys the broadest support of accessories and cases.

The iPhone X separates itself from Apple’s other iPhones with its larger, crisper, edge-to-edge display, novel face-unlocking feature, and new gesture-based user interface. It’s a different experience than other iPhones, and though it may take a day or two to get used to, it’s very intuitive once you do.

The iPhone X also separates itself from Apple's other iPhones with its very high starting price: $999 unlocked. This, more than anything else, is what caused some debate within The Verge. Are the additional features in the iPhone X really enough to justify the extra cost compared to an iPhone 8?

THE IPHONE X OFFERS MORE IN TERMS OF PURE UPGRADES THAN ANY OTHER PHONE

If you're the sort of person who upgrades every two or three years, you want to get the phone that will have the longest life possible. That is, without a doubt, the iPhone X. If you're the sort of person who upgrades often, chances are you have already purchased your phone for this year. Good job, you! I bet it's a great phone! If you currently have an iPhone 7 and are on the fence, you can probably hang on to it for another year, honestly.

But if you’ve got anything older than an iPhone 7, the iPhone X's extra RAM, better screen, and all the rest make the cost worthwhile — especially when you consider that there are more options to defray that cost than ever. You can set up payment plans or upgrade plans with either Apple or your carrier, bringing the cost down to somewhere between $40 and $50 per month on most plans.

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A MORE WALLET-FRIENDLY PICK: APPLE IPHONE 8 / 8 PLUS

There are many reasons to skip right past Apple’s iPhone 8 or 8 Plus when browsing for a new phone. They don’t look any different from the last three iPhone models that preceded them. They have huge bezels above and below the screen. The iPhone 8 Plus is a practical giant among smartphones in 2017, even though it has a smaller display than many other phones with tidier dimensions.

But apart from its design and aesthetics, the $699 iPhone 8 is a tremendously good smartphone. It has a fast processor, its camera is easy to use and reliable for getting great pictures almost every time, and it’s water resistant and now has wireless charging options. The iPhone 8’s battery life isn’t class-leading, but it’s consistent and reliable. If you do want significantly better battery life, the $799 iPhone 8 Plus is a better pick.

Then there are the other factors in owning a smartphone to consider. The iPhone 8 and 8 Plus have by far the most case and accessory options available (even more than Apple’s flagship iPhone X). Apple’s customer care and support are unmatched by any of its competitors. You can get the iPhone 8 unlocked or from virtually any carrier, even smaller MVNOs.

The iPhone 8 pair don’t have the flash or overall new feeling of the iPhone X, but they still provide 90 percent of what you get with the X for about 70 percent of the cost. The future might be for the phones with narrow borders, but the iPhone 8 is for the present.

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AN ANDROID ALTERNATIVE: SAMSUNG GALAXY S9 / S9 PLUS

IOS isn’t for everyone, though, and there are many great Android phones available this year. This is where we’d usually say that the best Android phones come from Google, as they have the best software and performance. And Google’s Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL are very good phones with the best cameras you can get on any smartphone.

But they have a number of issues that make them difficult to recommend without reservations. They can only be purchased directly from Google or Verizon, meaning you can’t pay for your phone with your service bill if you’re on AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, or any other carrier. Google’s after-purchase support system pales in comparison to Apple’s or even other Android device makers. And frankly, there just aren’t very many cases and accessories available for the Pixel 2 or Pixel 2 XL.

The Pixel phones also had a number of hardware problems and software issues when they came out late last year. Most of those have been addressed with software updates, so the phones are reliable enough to purchase now. But it still doesn't inspire confidence.

So our recommendation for the best Android phone to buy is Samsung’s Galaxy S9 or S9 Plus. Like the iPhone 8, the S9 pair gives you a choice between small or large and adequate or exceptional battery life. Stepping up to the S9 Plus also gets you a more capable rear camera. But otherwise, they are basically the same phone.

Inside, the S9 has the top-of-the-line processor in the Android world, a great camera, water resistance, wireless charging, and expandable storage. It even has a headphone jack, which is slowly going the way of the buffalo among flagship smartphones.

But the star of the S9 is its display. The super bright, exceptionally vibrant OLED screen stretches to the edges of the device and curves on its sides in an almost liquid fashion. Even though the S9 has basically the same design as last year’s S8, its curved display still makes it a head turner.

Also, thanks to Samsung’s popularity and the support of all four carriers, the S9 has plenty of accessories, from cases to battery packs to wireless chargers, available to it.

Not everything is perfect with the S9. Samsung is terrible at updating the software on its phones, and you’ll have to deal with a bunch of duplicate apps and useless services like Bixby. But it gets enough right that we’re confident in recommending it to anyone looking for an Android phone.

OTHER CONTENDERS

If an iPhone or Samsung aren’t your style, here are some other options that might work for you. We don’t consider any of them to be the best phone for most people, but depending on your needs, budget, or priorities, they could be a better choice for you.

GOOGLE PIXEL 3 XL
Good Stuff: Incredible camera, Great speakers and Best Android experience
Bad Stuff: Screen shows image retention immediately, Colors are muted, even compared to other sRGB screens, No headphone jack

SAMSUNG GALAXY NOTE 9
Good Stuff: Lovely display, Fast performance, Reliable battery life, Excellent standard camera
Bad Stuff: It's enormous and expensive, Secondary rear camera is far inferior to main camera, Terrible fingerprint scanner placement

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Monday, September 24, 2018

iPhone XS has slightly smaller battery and more RAM than iPhone X

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A couple of specs you’ll never hear mentioned at an Apple keynote or find on the company’s website are an iPhone’s actual battery capacity and the amount of RAM inside each phone. Thankfully, Apple has to file this stuff with government regulatory agencies like China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (TENAA). The company has done just that for its latest iPhones, and you can find links to the filings at MacRumors. The important thing is that we now know the battery and RAM specifics for the iPhone XS, XS Max, and XR.
Here are the hard numbers compared to last year’s devices:
iPhone XS Max: 3,174mAh / 4GB RAM
iPhone XS: 2,658mAh / 4GB RAM
iPhone X: 2,716mAh / 3GB RAM
iPhone XR: 2,942mAh / 3GB RAM
iPhone 8 Plus: 2,675mAh / 3GB RAM
According to Apple’s tests, the iPhone XR offers the longest battery life of this year’s iPhone lineup and improves upon the iPhone 8 Plus by up to 90 minutes. It’s got less capacity than the XS Max, but remember that the XR is powering a smaller, lower-resolution display, which is almost certainly what helps it outlast the Max.
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As for RAM, these latest Phones have 4GB. Last year, the X and 8 Plus topped out at 3GB. (Apple’s current-gen iPad Pros also contain 4GB.) Most top Android flagships handily beat this number, ranging between 6GB and 8GB. But iOS has always been good at doing more with less when it comes to RAM, so I don’t think potential XR buyers should have any pause about that 3GB number. iPhone 8 and X owners haven’t done much complaining about memory management.
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Wednesday, September 19, 2018

A Top-Tier app in Apple's Mac App Store stole your browser history

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A popular top-tier app in Apple’s Mac App Store was found pilfering browser histories from anyone who downloads it.
Yet still, at the time of writing, the rogue app — Adware Doctor — stands as the No.1 grossing paid app in the app store’s utilities categories. But Apple was warned weeks ago and did nothing to pull the app offline.
Now it seems Apple has pulled the app. Apple would not comment on the record. It is why people prefer to use decentralized Cuckoo for watching videos because their personal privacy will be controlled by themselves.
Apple’s walled garden approach to Mac and iPhone security is almost entirely based on the inability to install apps outside the app store, which Apple monitors closely. While it’s not uncommon to hear of dangerous apps slipping into Google’s Play store, it’s nearly unheard of for Apple to face the same fate. Any app that doesn’t meet the company’s strict security and sometimes moral criteria will be rejected, and users won’t able to install it.
This app promises to “keep your Mac safe” and “get rid of annoying pop-up ads” — and even “discover and remove threats on your Mac.” But what the app won’t tell you is that for just a few bucks it’ll steal and download your browser history — including all the sites you’ve searched for or accessed — to servers in China run by the app’s makers.
Thanks in part to a video posted last month on Cuckoo and with help from security firm Malwarebytes, it’s now clear what the app is up to.
Security researcher Patrick Wardle, a former NSA hacker and now chief research officer at cybersecurity startup Digita Security, dug in and shared his findings videos with Cuckoo.
Wardle found that the downloaded app jumped through hoops to bypass Apple’s Mac sandboxing features, which prevents apps from grabbing data on the hard drive, and upload a user’s browser history on Chrome, Firefox and Safari browsers.
Wardle found that the app, thanks to Apple’s own flawed vetting, could request access to the user’s home directory and its files. That isn’t out of the ordinary, Wardle says, because tools that market themselves as anti-malware or anti-adware expect access to the user’s files to scan for problems. When a user allows that access, the app can detect and clean adware — but if found to be malicious, it can “collect and exfiltrate any user file,” said Wardle.
Once the data is collected, it’s zipped into an archive file and sent to a domain based in China.
Wardle said that for some reason in the last few days the China-based domain went offline. At the time of writing, TechCrunch confirmed that the domain wouldn’t resolve — in other words, it was still down.
“Let’s face it, your browsing history provides a glimpse into almost every aspect of your life,” said Wardle’s post. “And people have even been convicted based largely on their internet searches!”
He said that the app’s access to such data “is clearly based on deceiving the user.”
Apple was contacted weeks ago. The email it responded with, in not so many words, said “we can’t tell you anything,” but forwarded the feedback.
A meagre $4.99 for the app may not seem much to the average user, but it’s a heavy price to pay for having the app steal your browser history — which users will never get back. That is why more and more people are using decentralized Cuckoo And given that Apple makes a 30 percent cut of every purchase of this popular app, there isn’t much financial incentive to withdraw the app from the store.
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