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View 40: Honor shows first smartphone after separation from Huawei

The Chinese smartphone manufacturer Honor has presented its first smartphone after separating from Huawei. The View 40 has so far only been announced for the Chinese market, but could also come onto the market in Europe at a later date.

Huawei had deported its former subsidiary brand Honor last November. The Chinese tech giant justified this step with the shortage of technical components for the mobile business: Due to the trade embargo in the USA, it is difficult for Huawei to get parts for mobile phone production.

Among other things, it is difficult for Huawei to get access to mobile processors. Manufacturers such as TSMC no longer supply Huawei with parts, which is why the production of its own Kirin chips is difficult.

Honor concludes contracts with manufacturers As a company that is independent of Huawei, Honor does not meet these restrictions directly. Honor says it has already signed contracts with producers such as Qualcomm, MediaTek, Micron, SK Hynix, Samsung and Sony. The View 40 is powered by a MediaTek Dimensity 1000 +.

Thanks to further partnerships with AMD, Intel and Microsoft, Honor could also develop notebooks. The US government recently banned Intel from working with Huawei.

It is also likely that Honor will get a Google license. That would mean that Honor phones can use the Play services in full – including the Google Play Store. This is not the case with Huawei: Because the tech giant can only offer smartphones with an alternative and far inferior app store, smartphone sales are collapsing in the western market. Huawei can only compensate for this because sales figures in China – where Google services are already blocked – are developing strongly.

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Fossil’s first LTE smartwatch is now available from Verizon

Fossil’s LTE-enabled smartwatch is now available exclusively from Verizon. The company has previously seen much success making stylish Wear OS-powered smartwatches across its family of Fossil watch brands.

The smartwatch packs the Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 3100 platform and comes with 8GB of storage. There’s a 1.3-inch screen in the 44mm body and the watch comes in either black or pink color schemes. There’s a 400 mAh battery that promises 20 hours of use or up to 3 days of standby time when connected to Verizon’s LTE network. The Gen 5 LTE can make or receive calls without a tethered smartphone.

Fossil’s Gen 5 also has a rotating center button for scrolling through menus. It also features heart rate monitoring for fitness tracking, sleep tracking, and a fully customizable battery saving mode. NFC enables Google Pay and Google Assistant is built into Wear OS.

The Fossil Gen 5 LTE replaced the Mobvoi Ticwatch Pro LTE as the only LTE-connected smartwatch that’s offered by the carrier on the Wear OS platform. Sadly, the Fossil Gen 5 doesn’t pack the newer wearable chipset from Qualcomm. The Mobvoi TicWatch Pro 3 is the only Wear OS watch with the Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 4100 and the LTE variant hasn’t been announced for the US just yet.

The cellular enabled smartwatch is available from Verizon for $349 or $14.54/month for 24 months.

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Samsung Exynos 2100 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 – Speed test on the Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G smartphone surprises

Samsung is trying to prove that this time its proprietary processors dedicated to flagship smartphones will work as well as the alternative from the Qualcomm company. On the SpeedTest G channel, a direct comparison of the operation of the Samsung Galaxy S smartphone 21 Ultra 5G version with the Snapdragon chip 888 and Exynos 2100. It turns out that the solution of the Koreans is doing quite well, and in the first part of the test, which focuses on the performance of the processor itself, it beat Snapdragon 888. Unfortunately, in the case of GPU and mixed tests, it is not so colorful. So you can say with a sneer “Exynos is still in shape”, although the company made a noticeable progress in this matter.

Comparison of the CPU and GPU operation of Qualcomm Snapdragon chips 888 and Exynos 2100 on the example of the Galaxy S smartphone 21 Ultra 5G. We know the winner.

Samsung smartphone test Galaxy S 21 5G with Exynos chip 2100: I did not expect this a successful continuation of the flagship series

Yesterday I published a Samsung Galaxy S smartphone test for you 21 5G and literally in a moment I start the procedure of checking the possibilities of a higher model with the note Ultra in the name. Then I will also have a fuller insight into the real features of these devices. I regret the fact that it is not possible to directly match Exynos 2100 with Snapdragon 888. Nevertheless, we can use the test of smartphones using these two chipsets, which appeared on the SpeedTest G channel. Looking at the results obtained by the title systems, one can come to interesting conclusions. Naturally, Exynos generally loses to Snapdragon, but there is one small “but” here. Samsung may have slight differences due to CPU power.

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To the point. In the test, the CPU Exynos 2100 slightly beat Snapdragon 888, but it is most likely a matter of higher clock speed. In the mixed test, Samsung did much worse. The Exynosa GPU is inferior to its competitor. It was similar in the mixed test. This is how the Samsung chip lost to the Qualcomm chip. The problem is that the differences are minimal and allow us to say that the Koreans have made remarkable progress in this matter. Remember that the Samsung Galaxy S 21 Ultra is still a young device. Upcoming software updates may contain optimization fixes that will redefine the power distribution.

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Samsung Galaxy S21 5G review

Introduction

Unpacking 2021 with a bang, we have the Samsung Galaxy S21 for you today. Samsung has rearranged its yearly release schedule to pull its high-end S-series reveal for January, and could there be a better way to kick off the year?

We did say ‘bang’, but it’s hardly the most thunderous of those – out of the trio of Galaxy S21 phones announced, we’ll now be presenting you the smallest, vanilla one. We also have the Ultra at the office, but you’ll need to wait a bit more for that – no event starts off with the headliner anyway.

For the second year in a row, Samsung unveils three phones as part of the spring flagship roster (even though it’s very much winter this time around, at least where we are). And, much like last time, there’s a very clear divide between the ultimate uncompromising Ultra and the two more restrained and down-to-earth ‘regular’ S phones. If anything, the gap has even widened.

The examples are plenty, some of them more significant than others. Take the displays for example. Unlike last year when all three phones had 1440p resolution panels, now only the Ultra gets the higher resolution, the ‘mainstream’ S21s stand at 1080p. All three screens were curved in 2020, now it’s just the Ultra. All three S20s had the same high-refresh rate implementation, now the Ultra gets a more advanced Adaptive mode than the other two.

How about the cameras? The S20 Ultra had a vastly superior setup than the other two, regardless of issues it might have had with realizing the full potential of all of its impressive hardware. Well, the S21 Ultra builds on top of that and comes with further improved internals in the imaging department. The S21 and S21+, meanwhile, reuse last year’s bits. Hmm.

But there’s more. In the case of the small Galaxy S21 we have here, a final blow hurts the most – it’s got a plastic back. It’s hardly the end of the world, and we’ll go on to rationalize how that’s actually a good thing on the next page. But it goes to emphasize the further differentiation between the one true flagship and the others that stand below it. And then further down below it.

Some genes are shared among all in the family, after all. The chipset is the same on all three (still different from region to region, but that’s a whole other topic), all have the second-gen ultrasonic fingerprint reader from Qualcomm, as well as stereo speakers and IP68 rating for dust and water resistance. And no, none of them has a microSD slot, that one was most surprising.

Samsung Galaxy S21 5G specs at a glance:
Body: 151.7×71.2×7.9mm, 169g; Glass front (Gorilla Glass Victus), plastic back, aluminum frame; IP68 dust/water resistant (up to 1.5m for 30 mins).
Display: 6.20″ Dynamic AMOLED 2X, 120Hz, HDR10+, 1300 nits (peak), 1080x2400px resolution, 20:9 aspect ratio, 421ppi; Always-on display.
Chipset: International – Exynos 2100 (5 nm): Octa-core CPU (1×2.9 GHz Cortex-X1 & 3×2.80 GHz Cortex-A78 & 4×2.2 GHz Cortex-A55), Mali-G78 MP14 GPU. USA/China – Qualcomm SM8350 Snapdragon 888 (5 nm): Octa-core (1×2.84 GHz Kryo 680 & 3×2.42 GHz Kryo 680 & 4×1.80 GHz Kryo 680; Adreno 660 GPU.
Memory: 128GB 8GB RAM, 256GB 8GB RAM; UFS 3.1.
OS/Software: Android 11, One UI 3.1.
Rear camera: Wide (main): 12 MP, f/1.8, 26mm, 1/1.76″, 1.8µm, Dual Pixel PDAF, OIS; Ultra wide angle: 12 MP, f/2.2, 13mm, 120˚, 1/2.55″ 1.4µm, Super Steady video; Telephoto: 64 MP, f/2.0, 29mm, 1/1.72″, 0.8µm, PDAF, OIS, 1.1x optical zoom, 3x hybrid zoom.
Front camera: 10 MP, f/2.2, 26mm, 1/3.24″, 1.22µm, Dual Pixel PDAF.
Video capture: Rear camera: 8K@24fps, 4K@30/60fps, 1080p@30/60/240fps, 720p@960fps, HDR10+, stereo sound rec., gyro-EIS; Front camera: 4K@30/60fps, 1080p@30fps.
Battery: 4000mAh; Fast charging 25W, USB Power Delivery 3.0, Fast Qi/PMA wireless charging 15W, Reverse wireless charging 4.5W.
Misc: Fingerprint reader (under display, ultrasonic); NFC; FM radio (Snapdragon model only; market/operator dependent); Samsung DeX, Samsung Wireless DeX (desktop experience support), Samsung Pay (Visa, MasterCard certified), ANT+, Bixby natural language commands and dictation.Samsung Galaxy S21 unboxing

Here it is, the high-end Galaxies’ new and improved (read ‘smaller’) retail box. Following in the footsteps of Apple, Samsung has chosen to remove the charger and headphones from the retail bundle, resulting in a more compact box.

Yes, yes, you’re supposed to already have chargers at home, so not including one with every phone should help reduce waste, plus the decreased shipping volume will lower the carbon footprint along the logistics chain. It’s a noble concept though somehow saving the environment still doesn’t feel like the key driving factor.

Having said that, at the S21 keynote, Samsung mentioned that adapters will now be sold at a reduced price, and this seems like a step in the right direction.

Anyway, what you are getting in the box is the phone itself and a USB-C-to-C cable. That sort of means you need to have a moderately contemporary USB PowerDelivery charger lying around, or a USB-A-to-C cable if you intend to use an adapter that doesn’t have a Type C out.

As it came to light around the iPhone 12 launch days, local regulations in France specifically mandate that all phones sold in the country come with a headset. So S21s in France will indeed ship with the usual set of AKG-branded earbuds we’ve gotten used to from Galaxies in recent years. Still no charger, though.

Redmi pledges allegiance to Dimensity 1200, promises a gaming phone in 2021

Mediatek introduced two new chipsets yesterday, the Dimensity 1200 and Dimensity 1100, and Redmi has revealed it will launch the first phone with the mightier platform.

The announcement was made by brand CEO Lu Weibing who also confirmed on his Weibo profile that a gaming Redmi phone is also in the works and should arrive this year after the company will focus more on e-sports. While it is logical to assume that the two will coincide, the executive did not confirm that the new handset will come with a Mediatek chip.

Lu revealed that thanks to TSMC’s new 6nm process technology, the new phone can have one super-large core (that goes up to 3 GHz), improved 5G, AI, better video, and photo content – overall a huge win for the industry.

He reminded that the Redmi K40 series will arrive next month, something we already knew. He has repeatedly confirmed the series will bring the Snapdragon 888 chipset. Still, we shouldn’t be surprised to see an Ultra version with the Qualcomm platform and a Pro variant with the Mediatek chip – just like vivo, which introduced an X60 Pro with the 5nm Exynos 1080 and is planning to bring the X60 Pro+ with the SD888.

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Sony Xperia 10 III – The appearance of the smartphone and important information about the specification leaked. There are not many differences from the predecessor …

The Japanese producer of consumer electronics is getting ready to launch the next generation of a recognizable mid-priced smartphone. Sony Xperia 10 III, because this particular model is all about, can be presented at the end of February, at the latest at the beginning of March. Detailed renders revealing the appearance of the device leaked to the network, but that’s not all. The leaks also show a large part of the technical specifications, which allows us to form a preliminary opinion about the device. However, it will not be completely new equipment, but a slightly modernized version of its predecessor. However, there are some differences that will make the hardware more attractive. Here are the details.

Sony Xperia smartphone renders leaked 10 III along with information about the processor, screen and dimensions of the smartphone. Let’s take a look at the differences from its predecessor, the Sony Xperia 10 II.

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Sony Xperia 10 III will not be significantly different from its predecessor. The device will take a similar form, and the changes concern what is happening “under the hood”. The smartphone should therefore receive a 6-inch CinemaWide display with the aspect ratio 21: 9 and FHD + resolution. Perhaps the manufacturer will use a higher refresh rate here. The predecessor used a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor 665, but here we will probably see the Snapdragon chipset 690 5G . Both the battery and the operating memory will be increased, but no specifics here.

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On the backs we find a photographic system consisting of 12 MP wide angle, 8 MP ultra wide angle and 8 MP telephoto. There will also be a 3.5 mm jack headphone jack and stereo speakers. The fingerprint reader will hit the side power button again. The whole thing will be closed in a housing with the dimensions 154 x 68 x 8.3 mm. The differences from the Sony Xperia 10 II are therefore insignificant, although the case from last year’s model will certainly not fit the fresh one. Finally, let me just add that Sony Xperia 10 III will be presented during the presentation of the new flagship Sony Xperia 1 III.

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Nokia 1.4 leaks in full, reveals basic specs, low price tag

HMD Global is planning to launch a new ultra-affordable smartphone, and it looks like a successor of the Nokia 1.3 is on its way. It will be called Nokia 1.4 and will have basic specs and a low-low price of under €100.

The new phone will have a quad-core CPU at 1.3 GHz rates. That looks like the very same Qualcomm QM215 platform for affordable phones, but Nokia might have decided to go with something different. Aside from that, there are updates pretty much everywhere else – the camera on the back is said to be a dual setup, the battery got a massive increase to 4,000 mAh, and the screen grew bigger – the Nokia 1.4 will have a 6.51” LCD.

The new phone will support dual SIM variants but only one of the cards will work with 4G networks, the other slot is for 2G – if there are no such networks anymore, users should use the hybrid slot to put a MicroSD card, because the internal memory of 16 GB does not sound enough. Interestingly enough, it will have a fingerprint scanner. The question remains whether it will be on the back or will make its way on the side, doubling as a fingerprint scanner.

The Nokia 1.3 was introduced back in March 2020 so we expect the new Nokia 1.4 to stick to the timeline and arrive in the first quarter of the year.

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Sony Xperia 10 III leaks in official looking renders

New year, new Roman numerals for Sony. In 2021 we’re all anxiously waiting for the company’s IIIrd generation of its smartphones, and today one of these has been uncovered. It’s the Xperia 10 III, successor to the Xperia 10 II from last year, and virtually indistinguishable from it as you can see from the leaked renders below.

The Xperia 10 III will sport a 6-inch screen, and Sony is sticking with huge bezels all-round. The phone’s dimensions are said to be 154.4 x 68.4 x 8.3 mm (9.1mm where the camera bump is), and that makes it quite compact for this day and age. It’s also marginally shorter and narrower than its predecessor, but 0.1mm thicker. So, overall, you’ll be getting a very similar package.

The triple camera setup at the back is said to consist of a 12 MP main unit, an 8 MP ultrawide, and an 8 MP telephoto. Dual front firing speakers are still in, as is the 3.5mm headphone jack. The fingerprint sensor is once again embedded in the power button on the side.

According to a previous find, the Xperia 10 III should be powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 690 5G chipset, which makes sense considering the 10 II also used a 6-series SoC – the 665.

That’s all we know for now about the Xperia 10 III, but it should become official in the next few weeks so we’re assuming there are more leaks about it on the way.

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MediaTek has new high-end chips for 5G smartphones

MediaTek has two new system-ons with Dimensity 1100 and Dimensity 1200 -Chip (SoC) presented for upcoming 5G smartphones. These chips are being produced for the first time for the Dimensity series using 6 nanometer technology. That lowers your electricity consumption. So far, Dimensity SoC have come from 7 nm production.

New CPU -Cores with old graphics unit Both new mobile phone chips use the currently most powerful ARM Cortex-A 78 – processor cores, but in different forms. The Dimensity 1200 uses a 1-3-4 architecture with four energy-efficient Cortex-A 55 cores, three Cortex-A 78 cores with up to 2.6 GHz and another A 78 core for a maximum of 3.0 GHz and twice the cache. According to the manufacturer, the Dimensity 1200 should be up to 22 percent higher CPU performance with simultaneously 25 percent better energy efficiency than the previous generation.

The Dimensity 1100 uses the conventional 4 + 4 architecture with four energy-efficient Cortex-A 55 – Cores and four Cortex-A 78 – high-end cores. Compared to its direct predecessor, the Dimensity 888 SoC, MediaTek only has the Cortex A 77 exchanged for the new A 78.

Interestingly, MediaTek takes over the integrated Mali G graphics unit 77 instead of the new Mali in both new SoCs G 78. The Mali-G 77, which was introduced in May of last year, is said to be per square millimeter of chip area 15 bring percent more 3D performance than the previous Mali G 77.

Both new chipsets continue to support LPDDR4X main memory with capacities of up to 16 GByte. LPDDR5 is already available and is also supported by high-end chips such as the Qualcomm Snapdragon 77, but LPDDR4 components are cheaper and only a little slower.

More megapixels, Chinese cell phones in preparation The Dimensity 1200 Chip enables image recording of up to 168 megapixels, while the dimensity 1100 with only one camera limited to 108 megapixels. This is an upgrade compared to its predecessor Dimensity 1000, the 80 Megapixel delivers. In the dual camera configuration, however, it remains at a maximum of 32 plus 16 Megapixels. In addition, both new SoCs support image recordings with optimization through artificial intelligence, for example for panoramic images at night and for bokeh effects with a blurred background.

Both Dimensity 1200 and Dimensity 1100 smartphone displays with up to 2520 x 1080 control pixels. Dimensity 1200 enables refresh rates of a maximum of 168 Hz and with Dimensity 1100 it is up to 144 Hz. Manufacturers like the According to MediaTek, Chinese companies Xiaomi, Vivo, Oppo and realme are already interested in Dimensity 1200 and Dimensity 1100 stated. The first smartphones with the new SoC should hit the market in March or April.

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The Golden Age of Graphics? The Number of GPU Developers Skyrockets in 2020

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The number of graphics processing units (GPU) developers grew to 19 last year as multiple companies are preparing for looming artificial intelligence (AI), high-performance computing (HPC), and edge computing megatrends, according to an observation by GraphicSpeak, a Jon Peddie Research (JPR) publication. The question is, how many of the started GPU projects will actually come to fruition?

Dozens of companies used to develop discrete graphics processors (dGPUs) in the 1980s and the 1990s, but their number shrank to less than half a dozen by the early 2000s and to two (or three, depending on how you count) later in the decade. By the early 2010s, companies like Arm, Imagination Technologies, DMP, Vivante (now part of VeriSilicon), and Think Silicon (an Applied Materials company) focused purely on GPU IP development (except for DMP). In contrast, companies like Apple and Qualcomm started to design their own integrated graphics processors (iGPUs).

The advent of compute on graphics processing units for AI, HPC, and other highly-parallel workloads, as well as the emergence of multiple new device categories, have spurred significant interest in graphics in recent years. This inspired China-based Jingjia Micro to develop and release the country’s first discrete GPU in 2014 and Intel to return to discrete GPU development in 2017.

By late 2019, the number of dGPU, iGPU, and GPU IP developers grew to 11, according to Graphic Speak. Meanwhile, if Tianshu Zhixin (established in 2018) with its Big Island GPGPU chip is included, it grows to 12.

(Image credit: GraphicSpeak, a Jon Peddie Research (JPR) publication)

But the interest in GPUs and the ongoing trade war between the U.S. and China inspired many other chip designers to start developing their own GPUs. At least eight new companies announced their GPU plans in 2020. Some of these companies are from China, and some others plan to adopt the open RISC-V architecture. The majority of new entrants are looking to build datacenter-grade solutions rather than consumer GPUs, and companies like Phytium will inevitably address client PCs with their graphics technology, too.

(Image credit: GraphicSpeak, a Jon Peddie Research (JPR) publication)

Developing GPUs is a very tricky task. These processors tend to be extremely complex in terms of transistor count, and they also feature distinct subsystems and a multifaceted software stack. It remains to be seen how many of these new GPU projects will actually be a success. Still, it is pretty obvious that with Intel and several new entrants, AMD and Nvidia will face considerably more competition in the next couple of years than they have in the last couple of decades.

TechStage | Chargers for iPhone & iPad: Faster & better from 20 euros

Beginning Power Delivery Cable Charger Qi charger Conclusion Comments by Matthias / / 20. 01. 2021 18: 07 Clock

If you want to charge your iPhone and iPad quickly, you need the right combination of power adapter and cable. We show good and cheap alternatives to expensive Apple accessories.

Whoever one of the iPhone – 12 – models, must also invest in a power supply or use an old one. For the first time Apple does not include a charger, allegedly for environmental reasons. However, many suspect that Apple is simply interested in maximizing profits. In order to achieve the maximum loading speed, there are a few points to consider. There are also alternatives to the original Apple accessories, which are technically very good, more compact and even cheaper.

By “fast charging” Apple understands that, for example, an empty iPhone battery in 30 minutes on 50% is charged. To switch to fast charge mode, the iPhone needs – 12 – Row a power supply unit with at least 20 Watt. Older iPhones from iPhone 8 onwards require a power supply unit with at least 18 Watt. The following iPad models charge with a charger with at least 18 Watt fast:

iPad Pro 12, 9 ″ (1st generation and newer) iPad Pro 11″(1. Generation and newer) iPad Pro (10, 5 ″) iPad Air (3rd generation) iPad mini (5th generation) 20 Watts may be a lot in the Apple cosmos. Users of some Android devices can only smile mildly here. For example, from 500 euros available Oppo Reno 4 Pro (review), Oppo Find X2 Pro (review) and Realme X 50 Pro 5G (test report) with up to 65 Watt.

Power Delivery Buyers should definitely pay attention to the free charging standard Power Delivery with their new charger. It is absolutely necessary for Apple devices to switch to fast charging mode. But not only iOS, but also many Android devices support the Power Delivery fast charging standard. Apple itself refers to the fast charging standard simply as “fast charging for iPhone”. Manufacturers of devices with Android operating systems often use the term USB-PD.

Still It gets more complicated with the names of the charger manufacturers. For example, Anker writes about its current PowerIQ 3.0 power supplies. They support the fast charging protocols from Power Delivery, Qualcomm and a few more.

With USB -PD negotiate the power supply unit and the end device the combination of voltage and current. The power pack usually offers various combinations from which the end device picks the right one. This is done via the Control Channel (CC) of the USB-C connector. This is another reason why it is important to choose the right cable. If the chip in the cable does not work correctly, it transmits a maximum of three amps.

USB Power Delivery 3.0 is the first standard, Qualcomms Quick Charge and Apple Lightning can replace. With USB-PD 3.0, the previous power profiles with the fixed assignment of voltage and maximum current are being replaced by flexible power rules. The higher the nominal power, the more combinations are possible.

Whoever is lower wants to get into the matter, we recommend the article on USB-PD: USB Power Delivery.

The correct cable Another requirement for fast charging on the iPhone and iPad is a USB-C to Lightning cable. If you use the cable supplied by Apple, there should be no problems with the energy transfer. However, if you buy a cable, you have to be careful. Because, as we already did in our USB-C cable purchase advice: Not everyone can determine everything, there can be large differences between what are apparently the same. To be on the safe side, we recommend that you have an MFi certification. This is always on ” Made for iPhone / iPad / iPod” – or ” Made for iPhone ” – Imprint on the packaging recognizable.

A problem that apparently mainly Apple users have: The cables break in heavily used areas, for example directly behind the Lightning or USB-C connector, and then no longer work reliably. That is with a cable, which individually already by the 20 euros, especially annoying. We recommend using other brands, especially when it comes to cables. We have had good experiences with anchors in the past. For a long time this has been Anker Powerline II USB-C to Lightning cable in use with us and shows hardly any signs of use.

The Anker Powerline III Flow has a very soft coating and hardly gets tangled. Anker advertises that it is particularly stable. But also with Spigen , Ugreen and Amazon Basic there were few problems in the past.

Charger The original power supply from Apple with a performance of 20 Watt costs about 20 Euro. This is an extremely reasonable price for Apple. Nevertheless, it is worth thinking outside the box. For example, the Anker Powerport III Nano also 20 Euro, sometimes only 17 Euro. It offers 20 Watt with Power Delivery, but also supports other fast charging standards for fast charging of other compatible end devices. It is also significantly more compact than the original Apple charger.

Another corner cheaper and even more powerful is the charger Spigen Steadyboost 27 W PD . However, it is a bit bigger. 27 costs Euro the PD power supply from Aukey and offers two USB-C ports with a total of 30 Watt.

Qi charger Starting with the iPhone 8, Apple smartphones also charge wirelessly using the Qi charging standard. Apple even specifies a maximum charging current of 7.5 watts. As our comparison test: The best Qi chargers shows, with some Qi chargers even a little more is possible. Also the current iPhone – 12 – series supports Qi up to 7.5 watts. However, this also offers the option of connecting the in-house Magsafe adapter. It holds magnetically on the back and then offers a charging current of up to 15 watts, as Apple clarifies. But not the iPhone 12 Mini, that only works 12 Watt. The Magsafe must also be connected to a Power Delivery capable power supply unit with at best 20 watts hang in order to be able to transmit its full power. Who wants the fast wireless charging on the iPhone 11, you currently have to use the original Apple accessories. There are currently no real alternatives from third-party manufacturers. Alternatively, we recommend our large comparison test: The best Qi chargers.

Conclusion If you want to charge your iPhone or iPad quickly, you have to with exception of the wireless Magsafe adapter do not necessarily have to use expensive Apple accessories. Sometimes the third-party power supply and cable are not only cheaper, but also better. We recommend the very compact yet fast power supply Anker Powerport III Nano in combination with the durable and chic Anker Powerline III Flex .

Who is currently buying an iPhone 12 we recommend our posts iPhone 12: This is how quickly the new models become cheaper and cheaper than the iPhone 12: Contract vs financing vs purchase.

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DNSpooq is the new series of DNS vulnerabilities: beware of phishing, credential theft, DDoS attacks

7 software vulnerabilities identified DNS widely used by connected device manufacturers and which threatens to jeopardize millions of devices

di Andrea Bai published on 20 January 2021 , at 15: 41 in the channel Security

JSOF, an Israeli company operating in the field of cyber security, today revealed the existence of seven vulnerabilities, known together with the name of DNSpooq , referring to Dnsamsq. The vulnerabilities are particularly serious as they allow for “DNS poisoning” attacks, remote code execution and denial-of-service attacks against a potential pool of millions of devices . Dnsmasq is an open source software involved in DNS forwarding and which allows you to add DNS caching functionality, DHCP server to Internet of Things devices.

Currently Dnsmasq is widely used in the sector and its diffusion does not allow to draw up an exhaustive list of all the companies that use it. JSOF limited itself to compiling a list of 40 reality among the best known, in which we see names like Android / Google, Asus, Cisco, Redhat, Netgear, Qualcomm, Linksys, IBM, D- Link, Dell, Huawei and Synology , just to name a few.

DNSpooq: seven serious vulnerabilities put millions of devices at risk

In DNSpooq vulnerabilities there are three, indicated by the codes CVE – 2020 – 25686, CVE – 2020 – 25684 and CVE – 2020 – 25685 , which allow you to perform “DNS cache poisoning” or “DNS spoofing” attacks. This type of attack allows the perpetrator to replace the DNS on a target device with arbitrary DNS of their choice .

Small step back: DNS is the acronym for Domain Name Service and, in summary, is the system that allows you to translate the domain names of websites into IP addresses. When configuring the devices connected to the internet, it is necessary to specify the IP address of a “DNS server” which has the task of carrying out this “translation” by consulting the appropriate tables.

It then becomes evident how a DNS Spoofing attack allows the attacker to redirect users to server under its control, while the user has the impression of visiting a legitimate website . This opens up the possibility of carrying out phishing attacks, credential theft or malware distribution from what the user perceives to be a trustworthy reality. The first DNS spoofing attack was illustrated in 297 by security researcher Dan Kaminsky, who demonstrated that DNS software can be exploited to steal data and forge any website address.

“Traffic that could be compromised includes normal Internet browsing, but also other types such as e-mails, SSH communications, remote desktop functions, voice calls, software updates, etc. Possible attack scenarios also include JavaScript-based DDoS, reverse DDoS, and wormable attacks in the case of mobile devices that change networks regularly, “JSOF points out in its report.

Other vulnerabilities, identified by codes CVE – 2020 – 25687, CVE – 2020 – 25683, CVE – 2020 – 25682 and CVE – 2020 – 25681 , are buffer overflow types and potentially allow you to execute code remotely on vulnerable network devices when Dnsmasq is configured to use DNSSEC.

Compounding the situation is the fact that perpetuating attacks exploiting the set of DNSpooq vulnerabilities are fairly simple to conduct and do not require the use of unusual tools or knowledge of techniques details: “The attack can be successfully completed in seconds or minutes and requires nothing special. We found that many instances of Dnsmasq are misconfigured to listen on the WAN interface, making the attack possible directly from the Internet “says JSOF.

DNSpooq: resolve by updating to the latest version or, if not possible, mitigate with some countermeasures

Over 1 million Dnsmasq servers are currently exposed on the Internet according to Shodan, while they would be 630 thousand according to BinaryEdge , but there would be millions of routers, VPNs, smartphones, tablets, infotainment systems, modems, access points, drones and any other kind of equipment vulnerable to attack while not directly accessible from the Internet: ” Some of the DNSpooq vulnerabilities allow DNS cache poisoning and one of the vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution capable of acquiring many brands of home routers and other network equipment, with millions of affected devices and over a million instances directly exposed to the Internet “said JSOF.

JSOF explains that it is possible to completely protect yourself from attacks that attempt to exploit DNSpooq vulnerabilities by updating the Dnsmasq software to latest version available which is currently 2. 83. If, on the other hand, it is not possible for any reason to proceed promptly with the update of Dnsmasw, JSOF has prepared a series of possible alternatives that allow to partially mitigate the problem . We report them below:

Configure Dnsmasq to avoid listening on the WAN interface unless it is necessary in the operating environment you are in.
Reduce the maximum number of queries that can be forwarded via the dns-forward-max = option. The default value is 150, but it may be useful to lower it.
Temporarily disable the DNSSEC validation option until you can install a patch or update the DNSpooq version.
Use protocols that provide DNS transport security (such as DoT or DoH). This is a measure that can mitigate Dnspooq, which however could have other security and privacy implications depending on the configuration and operating environment.
Reducing the size of EDNS messages could mitigate some of the vulnerabilities. This is an untested measure and is inconsistent with the RFC recommendations 5625.

Qualcomm prepares an alternative to Apple's M1 chip: ARM for everyone

A new Qualcomm chip for Windows systems on ARM, Snapdragon SC model 8280, confirms the general interest of the sector towards solutions that are based on ARM architecture to better balance power and consumption

by Paolo Corsini published 20 January 2021 , at 10: 21 in the Processors channel

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One of the future directions in the world of mobile devices and personal computer is that of the progressive adoption of processors and SOC based on ARM architecture , such as alternative to that x 86 adopted by Intel and AMD processors. ARM is certainly not new as it is the architecture adopted by mobile devices such as tablets, smartwatches and smartphones by virtue of the balance between performance and low consumption that allows to obtain.

On the other hand, the sector is pushed to the adoption of ARM architectures also in systems that until now have seen the proliferation of processors with architecture x 86, in search of an ever-increasing energy efficiency . Quacomm started this transition with its Snapdragon family SoCs designed for Windows on Arm notebook systems, with the model Snapdragon 8cx Gen 2 as the last representative to appear on the market.

Apple has for some months put on the market the first Mac notebooks based on ARM architecture, equipped of chip M1 developed internally by the company. The behavior of these systems has surprised, thanks to the balance between speed performance and consumption, confirming how the ARM architecture can represent a valid alternative to that x 86 also in areas typically falling within the competence of the latter.

Hence the general interest of the sector and the rumors of a new specific SoC for Windows on ARM notebook systems that Qualcomm would be developing. Referred to by the name of Snapdragon SC 8280, this SoC would have dimensions greater than that of Snapdragon 8cx Gen 2 thus integrating a greater number of transistors and therefore in theory higher processing power. The rumors reported by the WinFuture website speak of two different configurations, the first combined with 8GB of LPDDR5 memory and the second with well 32 GB of LPDDR4X memory; the second would represent a doubling compared to the maximum allocation up to now combined with the Apple M1 chip contained in the new MacBooks.

It is Snapdragon SC 8280 may borrow part of its architectural features from the Snapdragon SoC 888 , proposal for top-of-the-range smartphones built with 5-nanometer production technology and announced by Qualcomm in December 2020. The integration of the 5G modem is also conceivable for this new SoC intended for notebooks, so as to offer connectivity in any condition of use while simplifying the overall structure of the products.

these are only rumors which confirm the general interest of the industry towards alternative solutions to those x 86 . For the latter, Intel and AMD are certainly not watching, continuing to develop versions in their CPU ranges capable of operating at very low consumption levels (under 7 Watts of TDP), therefore compatible with passive cooling systems and capable of to offer high operating autonomy with battery. In this direction we must highlight the Intel Lakefield proposals, based on architecture x 86 with two different types of core one with high performance and the other with lower consumption.

Shortly, during 2021, we will see at the debut the new versions of Apple M1 SoC equipped with a greater number of cores and intended for use in MacBook Pro systems higher-end: this will be a new step in Apple’s gradual abandonment of architecture x 86 for your Mac notebook and desktop systems. Without forgetting that in the past AMD has expressed its interest in developing processors with ARM architecture dedicated to datacenters , initiative which was however suspended giving internal priority to Ryzen solutions. It is not certain that AMD can also explore this strategy for its CPUs of the future, relegating x 86 to higher-end models and offering its customers a processor with ARM architecture for the most critical areas in terms of consumption and dimensions.

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