Google urges Android phone users to switch off Wi-Fi calling
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The update frequency is a big part of why I got the Pixel 6. I've gotten more updates on my Pixel 6 in a year than any of my Samsung and LG phones combined over their lifespan.
Where I work has ZERO cell coverage in the building. This allows me to send and receive calls, usually not a big deal, but when my kids school calls, I'd rather get it on my phone
Email attachment virii are from the 1990s or 2000s. Exploits are way beyond that nowadays.
Poor or mediocre cell reception at your location.
Hmmmm ... How does a Google/Android flaw turns into a knock on Apple?
Apple is the one cell phone producer that sells a vastly more secure phone than any android and supports it for no less than 6 or more years.
Exactly, millions of Americans have little to no cell phone coverage in their homes, Wi-Fi calling solves that problem.
I switched from Apple a few months back hoping to have less problems. The mandatory updates and making a perfectly good phone useless made me insane.
iPhone has some very very odd settings
Like the default to share all subscriptions with your "family" automatically, and then also automatically bill them if you don't have a card associated with ApplePay and they do!
Like the default to share all subscriptions with your "family" automatically, and then also automatically bill them if you don't have a card associated with ApplePay and they do!
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There are no mandatory updates. Yes, your phone will tell you an update is available but you just ignore it.
To a point. The apps eventually quit working when you get too far behind. Then it will turn on but only the very basics work. I have an old iPhone in the garage to listen to music this recently happened. No music apps will work and it won't let me update to make them work. Web browser works fine. Total scam.
That is interesting.. I noticed a week or so ago that wifi calling is disabled on my cheapo Moto G stylus phone through Cricket. It won't allow me to turn it back on. I haven't sorted this one out yet. It hasn't effected my connectivity.
Mine hasn't worked in months anyway. Called about it two weeks ago and they didn't have an answer as to why.
Only time I use it is when we are at our camp in the mountains. No cell service there but we have better internet than what I have at home go figure.
Only time I use it is when we are at our camp in the mountains. No cell service there but we have better internet than what I have at home go figure.
Is that still a Thing? I thought all semi-modern email clients got rid of the scripting vulnerability years ago? I know Thunderbird that I use, did over a dozen years ago, starting with version 3.
That statement seems a little backwards. Today you can still get infected by opening a malware email attachment, but it would be a rare exploit for the email client to be exploited by something in the HTML instead of opening the attachment, since the era when email clients would run scripts has ended.
My point was, email attachment virus issues just aren't as common nowadays. Do they still happen ? Sure, but most exploits come from browsing and web browser/OS exploits.
For those of us with the S22, those devices are ONLY vulnerable if they run the Exynos chipset, which includes the baseband that processes signals for voice calls. The US version of the Galaxy S22 runs a Qualcomm Snapdragon chip and is not affected.
Totally agree as that really cuts a lot of concern out of the equation and a good VPN doesn't slow anything down either.
In many rural areas, there is no over the air signal, but you can find wi fi hotspots.
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