NothingOS 3.0 Leaked
Smartprix has leaked NothingOS 3.0 closed beta test version. The changelog includes:
• New Boot Animation
• New Fingerprint Unlock Animation
• Lock Screen Customization Shortcut
• LESS of NothingOS Font
• New "Inter" Font option
• Redesigned Settings App
• New Lock Screen Clock
Redesigned QS tiles with Resizable toggles:
Swiping down the QS will initially show two 1×2 toggles (Wi-Fi and Mobile Data) & 2×2 toggle for Bluetooth or your connected device. Expanding the QS reveals additional toggles, including a new Mute toggle in a 1×2 layout, allowing you to switch between Mute, Vibrate, and Sound. There is a new Expand Toggle button resize any icon into 1×2, 1×1, or 2×2, similar to iOS 18. The QS also adapts to light mode
Other changes comes from Android 15 including battery health, predictive back gestures, partial screen recording, device diagnostics, auto archive unused apps etc. There's also a Network Power Save Mode to extend standby mode time in NothingOS 3.0
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Smartprix has leaked NothingOS 3.0 closed beta test version. The changelog includes:
• New Boot Animation
• New Fingerprint Unlock Animation
• Lock Screen Customization Shortcut
• LESS of NothingOS Font
• New "Inter" Font option
• Redesigned Settings App
• New Lock Screen Clock
Redesigned QS tiles with Resizable toggles:
Swiping down the QS will initially show two 1×2 toggles (Wi-Fi and Mobile Data) & 2×2 toggle for Bluetooth or your connected device. Expanding the QS reveals additional toggles, including a new Mute toggle in a 1×2 layout, allowing you to switch between Mute, Vibrate, and Sound. There is a new Expand Toggle button resize any icon into 1×2, 1×1, or 2×2, similar to iOS 18. The QS also adapts to light mode
Other changes comes from Android 15 including battery health, predictive back gestures, partial screen recording, device diagnostics, auto archive unused apps etc. There's also a Network Power Save Mode to extend standby mode time in NothingOS 3.0
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Forwarded from Mishaal's Android News Feed
This is the Android 15 statue. It's the Bot holding a Vanilla Ice Cream cone. (Vanilla Ice Cream is the internal dessert name for Android 15.)
Source: Dave Burke on X
Source: Dave Burke on X
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Google released Android 15 update to AOSP
Android 15 is finally available for AOSP (Android Open Source Project). However, Google has NOT yet rolled out Android 15 stable for its own Pixel smartphones. It's likely delayed due to platforms bugs and is expected to roll out next month,
mid-October.
The Android 15 update brings several new features and changes like Private Space, which creates a separate profile that users can hide apps in, a screen recording detection API, predictive back gesture, changes to background activity launches etc. You can view full list of changes in Android 15 here.
Android 15 won't seem like a major update as many features will get shipped with QPRs releases such as Audio Sharing, a revamped Desktop Mode, the Tiny Taskbar, lock screen widgets etc. However, apart from Google, most OEMs don't incorporate platform changes in QPRs into their updates.
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Android 15 is finally available for AOSP (Android Open Source Project). However, Google has NOT yet rolled out Android 15 stable for its own Pixel smartphones. It's likely delayed due to platforms bugs and is expected to roll out next month,
mid-October.
The Android 15 update brings several new features and changes like Private Space, which creates a separate profile that users can hide apps in, a screen recording detection API, predictive back gesture, changes to background activity launches etc. You can view full list of changes in Android 15 here.
Android 15 won't seem like a major update as many features will get shipped with QPRs releases such as Audio Sharing, a revamped Desktop Mode, the Tiny Taskbar, lock screen widgets etc. However, apart from Google, most OEMs don't incorporate platform changes in QPRs into their updates.
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Samsung Galaxy S25 Series Lineup will only use Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 Chipset
All models of Galaxy S25 series across the lineup, irrespective of the country/region, will be powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 For Galaxy or the Leading Version chipset, instead of Exynos 2500. This is a different strategy from the Galaxy S24, which uses Samsung's self-developed 'Exynos' and Qualcomm's 'Snapdragon' together.
The Exynos 2500 is said to be reserved to power the next gen Samsung Galaxy Z Foldables. It makes sense though because the Exynos 2500 will be ready by that time since Samsung foldables will debut in second-half of 2025
For now, Samsung's semiconductor division will focus on improving the performance and stability of the Exynos 2500 chip. Samsung Device Solutions business has reportedly ordered executives of its foundry business to improve its 3nm and more advanced semiconductor chip fabrication processes to secure competitiveness in the market.
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All models of Galaxy S25 series across the lineup, irrespective of the country/region, will be powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 For Galaxy or the Leading Version chipset, instead of Exynos 2500. This is a different strategy from the Galaxy S24, which uses Samsung's self-developed 'Exynos' and Qualcomm's 'Snapdragon' together.
The Exynos 2500 is said to be reserved to power the next gen Samsung Galaxy Z Foldables. It makes sense though because the Exynos 2500 will be ready by that time since Samsung foldables will debut in second-half of 2025
For now, Samsung's semiconductor division will focus on improving the performance and stability of the Exynos 2500 chip. Samsung Device Solutions business has reportedly ordered executives of its foundry business to improve its 3nm and more advanced semiconductor chip fabrication processes to secure competitiveness in the market.
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Samsung plans to deploy facial authentication to prevent leaks
Samsung is reportedly attempting to prevent "trade secret" leaks by implementing a new facial recognition technology which will require employees working remotely to have their faces scanned from six angles before gaining access to Samsung's systems.
The system also enables continuous surveillance & is designed so that if the employee leaves the computer and the facial recognition tech no longer detects them or detects another person even, it shuts down the monitor. Samsung Display division has already started testing this new authentication system and Samsung Electronics, Samsung SDI, and Samsung SDS, are employing this new authentication system as well.
The labor union has raised privacy concerns. However, last year only, an ex-Samsung Display researcher who worked for the Samsung Display for 10 years conspired with other researchers to leak Samsung Display OLED technologies to display Chinese companies.
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Samsung is reportedly attempting to prevent "trade secret" leaks by implementing a new facial recognition technology which will require employees working remotely to have their faces scanned from six angles before gaining access to Samsung's systems.
The system also enables continuous surveillance & is designed so that if the employee leaves the computer and the facial recognition tech no longer detects them or detects another person even, it shuts down the monitor. Samsung Display division has already started testing this new authentication system and Samsung Electronics, Samsung SDI, and Samsung SDS, are employing this new authentication system as well.
The labor union has raised privacy concerns. However, last year only, an ex-Samsung Display researcher who worked for the Samsung Display for 10 years conspired with other researchers to leak Samsung Display OLED technologies to display Chinese companies.
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Nokia Plans to Sell Mobile Networking Business to Samsung
Acc to bloomberg, Nokia Networks has struggled to compete with Ericsson and Huawei. So, the company discussed all the possible options with its advisors, which included selling some or all of the division or merging with one of its rivals.
Nokia's telecom equipment business is reportedly worth $10 billion. Samsung Electronics has shown interest in the acquisition to improve its Radio Access Network (RAN) segment. RAN helps connect smartphones to the rest of the telecom infrastructure.
If the deal happens, Samsung's RAN market share would jump from 6.1% last to 25.6% which would make Samsung the world's 2nd-biggest RAN supplier, just behind Huawei (31.3%) and ahead of Ericsson (24.3%)
Nokia obviously declined the report.
Samsung already makes 4G and 5G base stations, chipsets, devices, radios, and core equipment. It has supplied equipment to Telus, O2 Telefónica, Reliance Jio, NTT DoCoMo, Dish, Verizon, Vodafone etc
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Acc to bloomberg, Nokia Networks has struggled to compete with Ericsson and Huawei. So, the company discussed all the possible options with its advisors, which included selling some or all of the division or merging with one of its rivals.
Nokia's telecom equipment business is reportedly worth $10 billion. Samsung Electronics has shown interest in the acquisition to improve its Radio Access Network (RAN) segment. RAN helps connect smartphones to the rest of the telecom infrastructure.
If the deal happens, Samsung's RAN market share would jump from 6.1% last to 25.6% which would make Samsung the world's 2nd-biggest RAN supplier, just behind Huawei (31.3%) and ahead of Ericsson (24.3%)
Nokia obviously declined the report.
Samsung already makes 4G and 5G base stations, chipsets, devices, radios, and core equipment. It has supplied equipment to Telus, O2 Telefónica, Reliance Jio, NTT DoCoMo, Dish, Verizon, Vodafone etc
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Introducing NVIDIA GPU Purse with Fan
"Show off your wealth in the form of a GPU. This accessory has an external fan that spins and an Nvidia GT 730 card. Suitable for carrying a smartphone and small items."
"Limited edition. I will make about 10 more in the next few weeks. Available in long or short chain," the creator of the project specified.
Priced at 1025$ and available to purchase at gpupurse.com
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"Show off your wealth in the form of a GPU. This accessory has an external fan that spins and an Nvidia GT 730 card. Suitable for carrying a smartphone and small items."
"Limited edition. I will make about 10 more in the next few weeks. Available in long or short chain," the creator of the project specified.
Priced at 1025$ and available to purchase at gpupurse.com
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Bluetooth 6.0 Announced
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) released the Bluetooth Core Specification version 6.0. One of the major features of Bluetooth 6.0 is "Channel Sounding," a feature that will bring "true distance awareness" to billions of future Bluetooth devices and accessories. This technology will achieve "centimeter-level accuracy over considerable distances," making it easier and quicker for users to locate lost items and will thus improve the Find My networks from companies like Apple, Google & Tile.
Bluetooth 6.0 also enhances ISOAL (Isochronous Adaptation Layer). ISOAL allows larger data frames to be transmitted in smaller packets and reconstituted later. A new framing mode introduced in this spec reduces latency and improves reliability. Other changes introduced in Bluetooth 6.0 include Decision-based Advertising Filtering, an extended feature set for link-layer, and advertiser monitoring and frame space improvements.
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The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) released the Bluetooth Core Specification version 6.0. One of the major features of Bluetooth 6.0 is "Channel Sounding," a feature that will bring "true distance awareness" to billions of future Bluetooth devices and accessories. This technology will achieve "centimeter-level accuracy over considerable distances," making it easier and quicker for users to locate lost items and will thus improve the Find My networks from companies like Apple, Google & Tile.
Bluetooth 6.0 also enhances ISOAL (Isochronous Adaptation Layer). ISOAL allows larger data frames to be transmitted in smaller packets and reconstituted later. A new framing mode introduced in this spec reduces latency and improves reliability. Other changes introduced in Bluetooth 6.0 include Decision-based Advertising Filtering, an extended feature set for link-layer, and advertiser monitoring and frame space improvements.
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Forwarded from Pavel Durov (Paul Du Rove)
❤️ Thanks everyone for your support and love!
Last month I got interviewed by police for 4 days after arriving in Paris. I was told I may be personally responsible for other people’s illegal use of Telegram, because the French authorities didn’t receive responses from Telegram.
This was surprising for several reasons:
1. Telegram has an official representative in the EU that accepts and replies to EU requests. Its email address has been publicly available for anyone in the EU who googles “Telegram EU address for law enforcement”.
2. The French authorities had numerous ways to reach me to request assistance. As a French citizen, I was a frequent guest at the French consulate in Dubai. A while ago, when asked, I personally helped them establish a hotline with Telegram to deal with the threat of terrorism in France.
3. If a country is unhappy with an internet service, the established practice is to start a legal action against the service itself. Using laws from the pre-smartphone era to charge a CEO with crimes committed by third parties on the platform he manages is a misguided approach. Building technology is hard enough as it is. No innovator will ever build new tools if they know they can be personally held responsible for potential abuse of those tools.
Establishing the right balance between privacy and security is not easy. You have to reconcile privacy laws with law enforcement requirements, and local laws with EU laws. You have to take into account technological limitations. As a platform, you want your processes to be consistent globally, while also ensuring they are not abused in countries with weak rule of law. We’ve been committed to engaging with regulators to find the right balance. Yes, we stand by our principles: our experience is shaped by our mission to protect our users in authoritarian regimes. But we’ve always been open to dialogue.
Sometimes we can’t agree with a country’s regulator on the right balance between privacy and security. In those cases, we are ready to leave that country. We've done it many times. When Russia demanded we hand over “encryption keys” to enable surveillance, we refused — and Telegram got banned in Russia. When Iran demanded we block channels of peaceful protesters, we refused — and Telegram got banned in Iran. We are prepared to leave markets that aren’t compatible with our principles, because we are not doing this for money. We are driven by the intention to bring good and defend the basic rights of people, particularly in places where these rights are violated.
All of that does not mean Telegram is perfect. Even the fact that authorities could be confused by where to send requests is something that we should improve. But the claims in some media that Telegram is some sort of anarchic paradise are absolutely untrue. We take down millions of harmful posts and channels every day. We publish daily transparency reports (like this or this ). We have direct hotlines with NGOs to process urgent moderation requests faster.
However, we hear voices saying that it’s not enough. Telegram’s abrupt increase in user count to 950M caused growing pains that made it easier for criminals to abuse our platform. That’s why I made it my personal goal to ensure we significantly improve things in this regard. We’ve already started that process internally, and I will share more details on our progress with you very soon.
I hope that the events of August will result in making Telegram — and the social networking industry as a whole — safer and stronger. Thanks again for your love and memes 🙏
Last month I got interviewed by police for 4 days after arriving in Paris. I was told I may be personally responsible for other people’s illegal use of Telegram, because the French authorities didn’t receive responses from Telegram.
This was surprising for several reasons:
1. Telegram has an official representative in the EU that accepts and replies to EU requests. Its email address has been publicly available for anyone in the EU who googles “Telegram EU address for law enforcement”.
2. The French authorities had numerous ways to reach me to request assistance. As a French citizen, I was a frequent guest at the French consulate in Dubai. A while ago, when asked, I personally helped them establish a hotline with Telegram to deal with the threat of terrorism in France.
3. If a country is unhappy with an internet service, the established practice is to start a legal action against the service itself. Using laws from the pre-smartphone era to charge a CEO with crimes committed by third parties on the platform he manages is a misguided approach. Building technology is hard enough as it is. No innovator will ever build new tools if they know they can be personally held responsible for potential abuse of those tools.
Establishing the right balance between privacy and security is not easy. You have to reconcile privacy laws with law enforcement requirements, and local laws with EU laws. You have to take into account technological limitations. As a platform, you want your processes to be consistent globally, while also ensuring they are not abused in countries with weak rule of law. We’ve been committed to engaging with regulators to find the right balance. Yes, we stand by our principles: our experience is shaped by our mission to protect our users in authoritarian regimes. But we’ve always been open to dialogue.
Sometimes we can’t agree with a country’s regulator on the right balance between privacy and security. In those cases, we are ready to leave that country. We've done it many times. When Russia demanded we hand over “encryption keys” to enable surveillance, we refused — and Telegram got banned in Russia. When Iran demanded we block channels of peaceful protesters, we refused — and Telegram got banned in Iran. We are prepared to leave markets that aren’t compatible with our principles, because we are not doing this for money. We are driven by the intention to bring good and defend the basic rights of people, particularly in places where these rights are violated.
All of that does not mean Telegram is perfect. Even the fact that authorities could be confused by where to send requests is something that we should improve. But the claims in some media that Telegram is some sort of anarchic paradise are absolutely untrue. We take down millions of harmful posts and channels every day. We publish daily transparency reports (like this or this ). We have direct hotlines with NGOs to process urgent moderation requests faster.
However, we hear voices saying that it’s not enough. Telegram’s abrupt increase in user count to 950M caused growing pains that made it easier for criminals to abuse our platform. That’s why I made it my personal goal to ensure we significantly improve things in this regard. We’ve already started that process internally, and I will share more details on our progress with you very soon.
I hope that the events of August will result in making Telegram — and the social networking industry as a whole — safer and stronger. Thanks again for your love and memes 🙏
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Android 15 will make it harder for thieves to bypass FRP
Android has a security mechanism called Factory Reset Protection (FRP) that is activated when you first associate a Google account with your device. It kicks in when the device undergoes an untrusted factory reset, such as a factory reset triggered from recovery mode, asking user to sign-in to google account to confirm identity.
Android stores a key in a persistent data block that survives factory resets, so even if another factory reset is forced on the device, FRP will still kick in. However, there are ways for thieves to bypass it entirely. Thus, Google is making changes to FRP, making it much harder to bypass.
1. Enabling the OEM unlocking setting will NO longer prevent FRP from activating.
2. Adding a new Google account is blocked.
3. Setting a lock screen PIN or password is blocked.
4. Installing new apps is blocked.
5. Bypassing the setup wizard will NO longer deactivate FRP.
Click HERE to read about it in detail.
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Android has a security mechanism called Factory Reset Protection (FRP) that is activated when you first associate a Google account with your device. It kicks in when the device undergoes an untrusted factory reset, such as a factory reset triggered from recovery mode, asking user to sign-in to google account to confirm identity.
Android stores a key in a persistent data block that survives factory resets, so even if another factory reset is forced on the device, FRP will still kick in. However, there are ways for thieves to bypass it entirely. Thus, Google is making changes to FRP, making it much harder to bypass.
1. Enabling the OEM unlocking setting will NO longer prevent FRP from activating.
2. Adding a new Google account is blocked.
3. Setting a lock screen PIN or password is blocked.
4. Installing new apps is blocked.
5. Bypassing the setup wizard will NO longer deactivate FRP.
Click HERE to read about it in detail.
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Android 16 will bring New Quick Settings Style and Notification Panel
While tinkering with the latest Android 15 QPR beta, Mishaal Rahman managed to activate a new version of the notification and Quick Settings (QS) panels that is likely intended for the Android 16 release. With the Android 16, notifications and QS will be separated, thus allowing the former to show more notifications & the latter to show more tiles and buttons.
Pulling down the status bar once still brings down the notifications panel but only on the quarter of the screen. While you can’t see any QS tiles anymore, but you can see the app that’s underneath the panel. However, the bad news is that, the QS tiles needs to be accessed by pulling down the status bar with two fingers.
Since its spotted on A15 QPR Beta 1, this design overhaul is still quite unfinished for eg light mode sucks, many things are missing such as icons of many tiles and many things will be changed too before A16 drops next year.
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While tinkering with the latest Android 15 QPR beta, Mishaal Rahman managed to activate a new version of the notification and Quick Settings (QS) panels that is likely intended for the Android 16 release. With the Android 16, notifications and QS will be separated, thus allowing the former to show more notifications & the latter to show more tiles and buttons.
Pulling down the status bar once still brings down the notifications panel but only on the quarter of the screen. While you can’t see any QS tiles anymore, but you can see the app that’s underneath the panel. However, the bad news is that, the QS tiles needs to be accessed by pulling down the status bar with two fingers.
Since its spotted on A15 QPR Beta 1, this design overhaul is still quite unfinished for eg light mode sucks, many things are missing such as icons of many tiles and many things will be changed too before A16 drops next year.
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