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Smartphones have reached near ubiquity in most markets and despite it seeming as if manufacturers have hit a roadblock on innovation avenue, 2022 proved there are still plenty of improvements to come. Apple’s latest iPhone almost shipped with support for ray tracing, for example, and mobile cameras are rapidly approaching DSLR levels of quality.
Security researchers recently discovered over two dozen malicious Android apps that had become popular on the Google Play Store. They masquerade as innocuous tools while secretly monitoring users and stealing their information. Google removed most of them, but they likely remain installed on many devices.
Anyone still using Samsung Galaxy phones between roughly 2014 and 2018 — of which there could be half a billion — should check for firmware updates. The updates Samsung is pushing are minor but unusual because the affected models are far older than the oldest phones that typically receive security patches.
Bugs in new phones are something that’s become a common problem for consumers. The iPhone 14 Pro seems to suffer from quite a few of them, the latest of which include random restarts and cellular connectivity issues.
