As the Right to Repair movement picks up steam, a group of Microsoft investors filed a resolution in June, asking the company to look at the social and environmental impact of making its Surface and Xbox hardware easier to repair. Now Microsoft has agreed to do just that, promising to commission an independent study and […]
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Mobian begins porting its Debian-based OS to more smartphones and tablets
Mobian is a mobile Linux distribution based on Debian. Designed to run on phones and tablets compatible with mainline Linux kernels, the operating system originally supported just three devices: the PinePhone, Librem 5, and PineTab. But now the team has announced initial support for a few more devices: the OnePlus 6, OnePlus 6T, Pocophone F1 […]
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Oneplus to roll out fix for OnePlus 6 bootloader bypass vulnerability
If you’re the sort of person that likes to load custom ROMs on your smartphone, the ability to load system software without unlocking the bootloader might sound like a good thing. But it also means that anyone with physical access to your device might also be able to load malware. So when OnePlus was alerted […]
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OnePlus 6 hits the streets May 22nd for $529 and up
The OnePlus 6 smartphone goes on sale next week with prices starting at $529 for a model with 6GB of RAM and 64GB of storage. As expected, the phone features the kind of specs and design you’d expect from a 2018 flagship, including a Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 processor, dual rear cameras, a water resistance chassis, […]
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OnePlus 6 smartphone specs leaked by TENAA
Chinese phone maker OnePlus is set to unveil its next phone on May 16th, but thanks to a series of leaks (and info released by OnePlus), we already have a pretty good idea of what to expect. Now details posted to TENAA, China’s wireless regulatory site, confirm some of those details. Basically the OnePlus 6 […]
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OnePlus defends the notch (and will have one in its next phone)
Over the past few years phone with slim bezels have become all the rage. But the latest solution for slimming the top bezel has been causing a lot of rage: some folks see notches as an ingenious way to give you more screen space by moving the notifications up. Others see it as an intrusion that […]