Weekly poll results: Poco X4 GT and F4 get lukewarm reception

Last week’s polls show that people are not entirely sold on the Poco X4 GT and Poco F4. Let’s have a closer look at what went right and what went wrong with these two. The polls hint at a slightly better reception for the Poco X4 GT. One thing that limited its appeal is that the lack of official plans to launch it in India, which is traditionally a strong market for Poco. The X4 GT is based on the Redmi Note 11T Pro, which isn’t available in India either (the non-Pro 11T is, but that’s not on the same level). Predictably, there were some arguments in the comments praising the choice of...

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Samsung Galaxy Watch4, Watch4 Classic get third One UI Watch 4.5 beta with improved GUI and bug fixes

Samsung announced the One UI Watch beta for the Galaxy Watch4 and Galaxy Watch4 Classic in May, and the company has so far released two One UI Watch 4.5 beta builds for these smartwatches. And proceeding further with its development, the South Korean conglomerate has now released the third One UI Watch 4.5 beta for the Watch4 duo. Samsung Galaxy Watch4 The third beta brings a plethora of bug fixes and improvements to the Watch4 pair, including improvements to the Watchface GUI and wear detection accuracy. You can check the changelog's screenshot below for more details. The...

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Huawei Matebook 16s in for review

The Huawei Matebook 16s was launched in China back in May, and earlier this week it went global. The company was kind enough to send us a sample for review purposes, and it is finally with us. This is the current flagship laptop of Huawei, using the latest 12th gen Intel processors. There are three options - Core i5-12500H, Core i7-12700H and Core i9-12900H and our unit uses the middle one. All Matebook 16s laptops come with Windows 11, 16GB LPDDR5 RAM and either 512GB or 1TB PCIe SSD. We have the roomier storage for testing, but performance differences should be minimal. This...

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WhatsApp for iOS will let you hide your "last seen" and "online" status

WABetaInfo is here with another sneak peek of what appears to be a future version of WhatsApp with extended privacy functionality. A future feature for WhatsApp on iOS will let users hide recent activity status and even online status from certain users or from all. The messaging app will allow you to hide your "Last seen status" from users outside your contact list, for example. A separate option named "Same as Last Seen" applies the same logic to your online status. The developers' team is also working on an edit button for messages as well as reacts to messages in a chat. In fact,...

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Android malware subscribes you to premium services without you knowing

Microsoft's 365 Defender Team says there's a growing popularity of malware that can subscribe you to a premium service without your knowledge. The attack is quite elaborate, though, and there are quite a few steps that the malware has to execute. For starters, the apps harboring the malware are usually classified as "toll frauds" and use "dynamic code loading" to carry out the attack. In short, the malware subscribes you to a premium service using your telecom monthly bill. You are then forced to pay. The malware only works by exploiting the so-called WAP (wireless application...

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Samsung Galaxy A32 gets the July 2022 Android security patch

Samsung has rolled out new Android security patches for its smartphones several times before even Google did and the new month started, and the company has once again become the first to release a new Android security patch since it has rolled out the July 2022 Android security update for the Galaxy A32's 4G model. Samsung Galaxy A32 4G The update is currently seeding in South Korea with firmware version A325NKSU1BVF2 for the Galaxy A32 units having model designation SM-A325N. If you live in South Korea and haven't received the update on your Galaxy A32 yet, you can check for it...

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