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Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4, Z Flip 4 and other Samsung phones updated to Android 13

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Samsung released Android 13 based One UI 5.0 update to a couple of its smartphones the past week. The South Korean company has rolled out the latest OS update to one of its Galaxy A series phones along with its 2022 range of foldable phones followed by the 2021 foldable phones. The entire list includes Samsung Galaxy A52, Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4, Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 4, Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 3.

Among other features, the new update also brings Android security patch for the month of November 2022.

Firmware versions for Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 4 and Galaxy Z Fold 4 are F721NKSU1BVK5 and F936NKSU1BVK5, respectively. While the Samsung OneUI 5.0 updates the firmware version F926BXXU2DVK3 to Galaxy Z Fold 3. It is labeled A525FXXU4CVJB for Galaxy A52 in Russia.

Users of the above listed Samsung phones can update their devices to the latest operating system by navigating to Settings on their phone and then tap Software update followed by download and install. Most likely, it will be an OTA rollout with the update available to select users initially. It will eventually be expanded to more users in the coming days.

Samsung One UI 5.0: Features

Samsung One UI 5.0 allows Galaxy phone and tablet users to customize their home screen with new colour options, icons and quick panels. The update also comes with up to 16 preset colour themes based on their wallpaper. It also offers reorganized menus for quick access to all ringtone volumes and vibration intensities.

With the Samsung One UI 5.0, users will be able to seamlessly capture high-quality photos and video with a new icon in Pro and Pro Video mode. The zoom bar has become more responsive for quicker close-ups. The smartphone maker has also added a new dashboard that…

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How to set up and use the Personal Safety app on Google Pixel phones

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google pixel 6a personal safety

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The Personal Safety app is one of those features you never want to use, but should definitely have it set up. Personal Safety is exclusive to Pixel phones, and it could literally save your life in the case of an emergency. The application can store emergency information such as your name, medical information, emergency contacts, and more. It can also help you get in touch with emergency services, too. Another really cool feature is car crash detection.

With that in mind, we can’t stress enough how important it is to get it up and running if you have a compatible phone. We’re here to help you through the process and show you how to set up and use the Personal Safety app on Google Pixel phones. Let’s jump right into it.

Which phones can use the Personal Safety app?

Google Pixel 7 Back White

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As mentioned in the intro, the Personal Safety application is exclusive to Google Pixel devices. Not all Pixel phones can use the app to its full potential, though. The app will be automatically downloaded on Pixel 4 or newer devices, but it’s not exclusive to those handsets.

On the Pixel 3a or earlier, you can only add emergency contacts and list medical information. By the way, this works even if you haven’t installed the app, and you can do it through your Google Account. If you decide to install the app, you can use Emergency SOS, emergency sharing, safety check, crisis alerts, and car crash detection. By the way, car crash detection only works on Pixel 3 or newer phones. Some of these features also require Android 13.

Car crash detection requirements

google pixel 7 pro car crash detection

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Car crash detection is more exclusive than other Personal Safety app features. For starters, it’s only available on Pixel 3 devices or newer (such as the Pixel 7). It’s also limited to a selection of languages and regions. Here they are.

Supported languages:

  • Danish
  • Dutch
  • English
  • French
  • French (Canada)
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Mandarin Chinese
  • Norwegian
  • Spanish
  • Swedish

Supported regions:

  • Australia
  • Canada
  • Denmark
  • France
  • Ireland
  • Italy
  • Japan
  • Norway
  • The Netherlands
  • Singapore
  • Spain
  • Sweden
  • Taiwan
  • The UK
  • The US

How to set up the Personal Safety app

First, you’ll want Google to…

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Indian security forces foil bid to smuggle mobile phones to Bangladesh

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The seizure was made by the troops of 70th Battalion under South Bengal Frontier.

In a statement, the BSF said that on the basis of information received from intelligence sources, the troops noticed that some plastic packages, tied to banana stems, were floating in the Pagla River towards Bangladesh.

Vigilant security personnel immediately acted on the info and ferreted the packages out of the river. The packages contained 317 pieces of mobile phones of different companies with an estimated total value of 3.88 million rupees (1.78 million baht). The seized goods were handed over to the Police Station English Bazar for further legal action.

 

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How Mobile Phones Became a Privacy Battleground—and How to Protect Yourself

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In the 15 years since the iPhone’s debut, the world of data privacy has changed significantly. Since 2007, app-privacy controversies—ranging from the social network Path downloading the contents of people’s address books to every weather app under the sun selling location data—have snowballed, leading to concerns both legitimate and misinformed, as well as the inability of many phone owners to determine which threats are real. But digging through history to understand where the privacy controls of iOS and Android began, and how both mobile operating systems have shifted to give people more control, can give you a better idea of what the true threats are right now.

“I think the transition to mobile devices brought a sea change in data collection, because unlike traditional ad tech, which was mainly focused on what we were searching for, now companies could also focus increasingly on where we were,” Albert Fox Cahn, executive director of Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, told us. “Today the ad tech world would have been unrecognizable from back when the iPhone was first introduced.”

In the absence of a federal privacy law, most ad-tech companies and data brokers are unregulated and opaque in their operation, which makes it nearly impossible for phone owners to track where their data goes or how it gets used, let alone prevent that data from being shared in the first place. It also means that the industry has no standards to follow, so it’s difficult for everyone to figure out what is and isn’t possible on any given device.

What phone owners have instead are sometimes-complicated menus full of permissions that are buried deep within an operating system and rarely set up by default with their privacy in mind.

Where your data goes (and who can see it)

With mobile apps, advertising tends to work like this: An app developer includes a bit of code from a software development kit (SDK), made by an advertising network you’ve likely never heard of, that can gather all sorts of information, such as your location and app-usage data.1

Unless you read the details of a privacy policy or bother to scroll through the pages of a terms-of-service statement, you get neither…

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