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    Your Daily News Round-up for Tuesday, April 3rd, 2018 

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    From The Web:

    Apple iPad (2018) review: the best tablet under $500

    Pixel 2 vs. Galaxy S9 vs. iPhone X — Which should you choose?

    OnePlus 6 name confirmed, coming with 256GB storage version and possibly special Avengers: Infinity War model

    Rant: In-app browsers are annoying and mostly useless

    9 Tips to Get the Most Out of Your Android Device

    From The Forums:

    Jacksonville, FL

    TMobile pegged for quiet q1

    Advanced Mobile Location and Emergency Location Service and Verizon Wireless

    Transferring a Verizon business number from landline to Tracfone

    International calls

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    Your Daily News Round-up for Monday, April 2nd, 2018 

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    From The Web:

    2018 April Fools' Roundup: All the jokes from around the web

    OnePlus 6 goes through Wi-Fi certification with Android 8.1 Oreo

    Moto G6, G6 Play and G6 Plus marketing materials leaked online

    Fortnite now available for everyone on iOS

    Smartphones Are Killing The Planet Faster Than Anyone Expected

    From The Forums:

    At$t outage map

    $5 per line increase

    Now 180 consecutive days of active service to unlock device

    Moto G6 $250, G6 Play $200 available on May 10

    Verizon unlimited senior plan

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    Under Armour Suffers Massive Data Breach, 150 Million MyFitnessPal Users Affected 

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    Just before Easter weekend Under Armour, Inc. announced that user data from its MyFitnessPal service had been compromised. Sometime in February an unauthorized party acquired data associated with some 150 million user accounts. The stolen data includes user names, email addresses and hashed passwords, but thankfully does not include payment card data.

    This breach is especially troubling for a number of reasons. One is, of course, the number of users affected by it. Another cause for concern is that Under Armour doesn't seem to know how the data was stolen. Finally, MyFitnessPal is a bit unique in that it acts as an aggregator for other fitness apps and tracking devices associated with them. So it's conceivable that a user's location history, tied to their email address, might also have been compromised.

    Under Armour is urging users to change their passwords—on MyFitnessPal as well as any other accounts that use the same email/password combination—and to be especially wary of any suspicious emails seeking to harvest even more personal information.

    Sources: MyFitnessPal, Reuters via Android Police

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    Your Daily News Round-up for Thursday, March 29th, 2018 

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    From The Web:

    iOS 11.3 with new Animoji, iPhone throttling controls, much more coming today

    Apple releases watchOS 4.3 with iPhone and HomePod music control, and more

    Huawei's FreeBuds are €159 ripoffs of Apple AirPods

    Huawei’s P20 Pro is a hugely promising phone that will upset Americans

    Hate Display Notches? Hide the Notch for Free with “Nacho Notch—Notch Hider!”

    From The Forums:

    Sm-g930u???

    How do I delete my Google account from a device?

    Total Wireless - service in Greece?

    Lycamobile Samsung A157 "Phone not allowed MM#6"

    Deprioritization should be increased to 50mb

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    Your Weekly Wearable Round-up for Wednesday, March 28th, 2018 

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    From The Web:

    Fitbit Versa review: Slowly but surely pushing Fitbit past the “fit” bit

    Wear OS developer preview with Android P announced, now available for Huawei Watch 2

    Apple Watch Trade-In Program Offers Up to $225 in Canada, Now at Retail Stores

    The $80 Amazfit Bip smartwatch after two weeks: Deal or no deal?

    Quotes Watch wants to give you a more meaningful smartwatch experience

    From The Forums:

    Public safety users will have higher priority than postpaid users starting 3/29/2018

    Why is my voicemail number in Arizona when I live in New Mexico?

    GUDP vs. Feb UDP International Travel pushing me over

    iphone X worse reception than previous models?

    Should I contact customer service before porting?

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    Your Daily News Round-up for Tuesday, March 27th, 2018 

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    From The Web:

    Xiaomi Mi MIX 2S: A Chinese gem

    3-camera phones are here: Huawei launches P20 Plus (and the dual-camera Huawei P20)

    Apple supplier Foxconn buys Belkin, Linksys, Wemo for $866M

    New $329 iPad includes support for the Apple Pencil, A10 Fusion processor

    Acer Chromebook Tab 10, the first Chrome OS tablet, announced for the education market

    From The Forums:

    ATT outage on East coast

    Can a prepaid phone be traced to the store it was purchased at?

    MetroPCS phones on Cricket

    Devices that DO NOT work with Freedom LTE List

    Straight Talk iphone Tether Help

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    Facebook's Android App Found Harvesting Call and SMS Data 

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    As Ars Technica reports, in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal a Facebook user in New Zealand decided to download and inspect their personal data archive. This person was shocked to find about two years' worth of phone call metadata, where no explicit access to that data was granted. Ars has confirmed that this personal information, along with metadata for SMS and MMS, is showing up in the archives for other Facebook users as well. The information includes names, phone numbers plus times and lengths of phone calls.

    You may have guessed that this is all about app permissions, and you'd be right. Since Android Marshmallow (v6.0) app permissions have been opt-in—meaning that before the Facebook app can help itself to your contact list you have to explicitly allow it via a pop-up toggle. Before Marshmallow the only means of granular control for such permissions were (as I recall) Privacy Guard for CyanogenMod and LBE Privacy Guard for MIUI. Even worse, granting Facebook access to your contacts in Android Jelly Bean (v4.1) and earlier automatically gave the app access to your call and message logs as well.

    Even if you had one of the aforementioned privacy guards in place, or if you never used the Facebook app at all, it's still very possible that your personal information was harvested from the device of someone you know. So whether you use it or not, Facebook very likely knows exactly who you are.

    Source: Ars Technica

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    Your Daily News Round-up for Monday, March 26th, 2018 

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    From The Web:

    The Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+ Review: Exynos and Snapdragon at 960fps

    The OnePlus 6 Surfaces Allegedly On GeekBench With Fantastic Single And Multi Core Scores; Beats The Samsung Galaxy S9+ In Shocking Result

    Best smartphones for audio - Sound Guys

    HQ Trivia App Jackpots to Hit $100,000 USD Today and $250,000 on Wednesday

    Why our phones are making us miserable: pleasure isn't happiness

    From The Forums:

    Does Verizon now have something called "Extended Service"

    What does prepaid mean?

    T-Mobile deploys mid-band LTE upgrades to hundreds of cell sites

    Would a dual sim phone work?

    Is Verizon Playing Games?

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    Your Daily News Round-up for Friday, March 23rd, 2018 

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    From The Web:

    OnePlus 6 spec leak suggest only minor internal changes for OnePlus’ next flagship

    4 months later, the OnePlus 5T is still the best value in an Android smartphone

    Best Buy Canada will no longer sell Huawei products, following suit with U.S.

    Huawei Mate 10 sequel will reportedly have Qualcomm’s ultrasonic in-display fingerprint sensor

    Apple Proposes a Suite of New “Accessibility Emojis”

    From The Forums:

    Took a chance with T mobile

    Has anyones fees gone up?

    Porting phone to AT&T prepaid

    Network improvements?

    T-Mobile rolls out low-band LTE to hundreds more cell sites

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    Your Daily News Round-up for Thursday, March 22nd, 2018 

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    From The Web:

    Samsung Galaxy S9+ tested: Exynos 9810 vs. Snapdragon 845

    Samsung Galaxy S9 now able to boot AOSP Android 8.1 Oreo

    Why America Is So Scared of China’s Biggest Tech Company

    FCC Under Fire for 'Sweetheart' AT&T, Verizon Spectrum Deals

    CRTC’s Wi-Fi-first MVNO decision to be announced on March 22

    From The Forums:

    Peculiar problem on T-Mobile. Anyone faced this before?

    Verizon prepaid plan, or somewhere I can use a Verizon phone on a prepaid plan?

    iPhone from Britain

    Best Buy True Hollywood Story

    Band 4 LTE in Toronto

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    Best Buy to Cease Sales of Huawei Phones in the United States 

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    2018 is shaping up to be a rough year for Huawei's U.S. operations. The Chinese company, widely recognized as the world's third largest smartphone OEM behind Samsung and Apple, was set to sell its Mate10 Pro through AT&T before that carrier backed out of the deal. Now they're about to lose another American retail partner; CNET reports that Best Buy will cease all sales of Huawei products over the next few weeks, and cancel any orders for new stock.

    Americans, like Canadians, tend to finance their smartphone hardware through their carriers, so you could certainly argue that the fallout with AT&T was a bigger deal. Also, you can still buy Huawei phones unlocked through the likes of Amazon and Newegg. What you can't do with either of those online vendors, however, is see and handle your potential Huawei purchase on a physical store shelf.

    Best Buy won't officially comment on their decision, but it almost certainly has something to do with security concerns expressed by the CIA, FBI and NSA over Chinese firms. Huawei, on the other hand, has lots to say:

    "Our products and solutions are used by major carriers, Fortune 500 companies and hundreds of millions of consumers in more than 170 countries around the world," said a spokesman. "We have earned the trust of our partners across the global value chain."
    In case you were wondering it's still business as usual for Huawei in Canada, though there have been some security concerns raised here as well.

    Source: CNET, Globe and Mail

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    Your Weekly Wearable Round-up for Wednesday, March 21st, 2018 

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    If my timestamp doesn't work scrub ahead to the 34:46 mark for Wear OS—or watch the whole thing; I'm not your mother...

    From The Web:

    Smartwatches will continue to dominate wearables for quite some time

    Report: Smartwatches will account for almost 40% of wearables shipped in 2022

    Fitbits and other 'wearable' health monitors. Do they work?

    Baselworld 2018: will we see new smartwatches this week?

    Apple using secret US facility to develop MicroLED screens for Apple Watch

    From The Forums:

    Why no Stylo 3 Plus on Cricket?

    prepaid carrier SIM kit only

    AT&T Prepaid Undercutting Cricket With Miulti-Line Discounts, Tethering, Speed

    This is crazy

    Possible to get Unlimited Plus?

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    Your Daily News Round-up for Tuesday, March 20th, 2018 

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    From The Web:

    'Just A New Smartphone': Korean Consumers Showing Lukewarm Response to Galaxy S9

    iPhone X production has met expectations, 'iPhone SE 2' not guaranteed to launch says analyst

    Honor View 10 review: Huawei takes on OnePlus

    The OnePlus 6 will probably look a lot like this

    Super-fast, next-generation 5G wireless to get $200M research boost from governments

    From The Forums:

    Invalid SIM card on Tracfone Rebel 3

    Verizon stands alone in silence on Rich Communications Services

    S8+ Oreo and Wi-Fi calling

    Verizon building cell towers inside church steeples

    Best texting app for Tracfone purchased Samsung Galaxy S6

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    Your Daily News Round-up for Monday, March 19th, 2018 

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    From The Web:

    Apple AirPods: the audiophile review

    People are accidentally setting off Apple’s Emergency SOS alert

    You're paying too much for your smartphone, says MediaTek

    Xiaomi Redmi 5A Review: Best smartphone below $100?

    Oppo's new R15 will probably become the OnePlus 6, and yes, it has a screen notch

    From The Forums:

    A decade of growth for T-MOBILE. Stagnation and Losses for SPRINT

    Att needs take firstnet serious

    The Prepaid Battlefield

    Autopay Discount Question

    New Smart Phone Setup from Old Flip Phone Questions

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    Your Daily News Round-up for Friday, March 16th, 2018 

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    From The Web:

    Android P: Our 5 favorite new features so far

    Android P: Our 5 least favorite changes so far

    These are the smartwatches that will get the Wear OS update

    Apple releases iOS 11.3 beta 6 for iPhone and iPad

    Big Telco hates "regulation," but they love their billions in government handouts

    From The Forums:

    New LTE study shows T-Mobile and Verizon are the only networks that matter any more

    Galaxy S8 Unlocked + ATT Prepaid.. Conditional forwarding not working? Google Voice

    Freedom Mobile now testing Band 13 in select markets

    Port # Scam

    My Account App Update txt?

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    Your Daily News Round-up for Thursday, March 15th, 2018 

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    From The Web:

    Samsung ships out Sprint Galaxy S9s with Verizon SIM cards, chaos ensues

    iPhone supplier Wistron accused of using ‘unauthorized components’ in iPhone 8 Plus production

    Apple Must Explain Why It Doesn't Want You to Fix Your Own iPhone, California Lawmaker Says

    Can we fix it? The repair cafes waging war on throwaway culture

    A $1.6 billion Spotify lawsuit is based on a law made for player pianos

    From The Forums:

    Red pocket reseller on e-bay beware

    Blu phones?

    Google voice forwarding number on account?

    128K vs 256K TM1+ in China/S.Korea/Japan international data roaming

    Phone with user replaceable battery?

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    Your Weekly Wearable Round-up for Wednesday, March 14th, 2018 

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    Back to regular mobile-related news tomorrow...

    From The Web:

    Fitbit Did What You Wanted and Basically Made a Pebble

    First look: Fitbit Versa is a smartwatch that reaches out to Pebble fans

    First look: Fitbit Ace is a fitness tracker for kids with a familiar look

    Notification suggests Android Wear could be renamed 'Wear OS'

    Smartwatch sales continue to grow, closing the gap on fitness trackers

    From The Forums:

    Coverage on LTE only devices (Intel iPhone 8/X)

    Could Verizon Ever Become Bigger Than AT&!?

    ATT prepaid plans + tethering or wifi hotspot? Prepaid vs PostPaid?

    HSN Tracfone Phone With 1 Year Minutes/Text/Data Package Deal Question

    RCS (Universal Profile) coming to T-Mobile in Q2-18

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    Your Daily News Round-up for Tuesday, March 13th, 2018 

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    From The Web:

    YouTube app is finally getting a Dark Mode on Android and iOS

    Apple Announces WWDC 2018 Set for June 4-8 in San Jose

    Finland takes stake in Nokia to boost national ownership

    President Trump signs executive order blocking Broadcom's acquisition of Qualcomm

    Amazon issues recall for 6 different AmazonBasics portable power banks (fire hazard)

    From The Forums:

    AT&T, or a carrier that uses it? Need to know by Wed. (14)

    LG Stylo 3 not available for BYOP

    Simple mobile $25/ 3gig plan.

    Has anyone received the s9?

    How to know the owner of the iPhone?

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    Here's What You Can Do if Affected by Uber's 2016 Data Breach 

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    It's what I did, anyway.

    I found out via email yesterday that I was one of the 815,000 Canadian Uber users (along with some 57 million Americans) whose personal data was compromised. Here's an excerpt from the email I received:

    In November 2016, Uber became aware that two individuals outside the company had accessed certain user data stored with a third-party service [...] The files that were accessed contained user information that we used to operate our services, and for nearly all users this included name, email address, and mobile phone number used on your account before 2016. Our outside forensics experts have seen no indication that trip location history, dates of birth, or payment information were accessed or downloaded.
    Personally I'd have preferred to have my credit card number leaked rather than my email address and phone number, for the simple reason that my bank has much stronger protections in place against fraud than either my email provider or wireless carrier. Maybe that's just me.

    What really stinks about this whole mess is that Uber didn't even want to notify affected Canadians at all. Mobile Syrup reports that the ride-sharing company was ultimately compelled to do so because of a February 28th ruling by the Alberta Privacy Commissioner. Uber plans to appeal that ruling, but there is a separate investigation being conducted by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.

    I don't expect every Uber user reading this to have the luxury of being able to delete their account; as a driver or passenger you might depend on the service. Fortunately I don't, but more importantly I no longer trust this company with my personal data.

    Links: Mobile Syrup

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    Your Daily News Round-up for Monday, March 12th, 2018 

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    Note that today's video features Naomi Wu, who you may find either empowering or NSFW... Don't say I didn't warn you!

    From The Web:

    Vivo Apex Launched in China with Half Screen Fingerprint Sensing Tech, will be Mass Produced in Mid-2018

    Nokia Smartphone Revival Is a Costly Adventure

    Intel reportedly looking to buy Broadcom, which is trying to take over Qualcomm

    FBI busts Phantom Secure CEO for selling secured BlackBerry phones to drug cartels

    'Snitches Get Stitches': How Secure Phones for Criminals Are Sold on Instagram

    From The Forums:

    Verizon DURAXV on AT&T

    Google voice forwarding/carrier call forwarding?

    What is the cheapest way to get a US SMS Number?

    EBay Sim Fraud?

    Anyone else lose the $10 a month off promo

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