Are the on-screen soft keys – recent, home, and back buttons – present on the bottom of your Samsung Galaxy Note 9 screen have suddenly become less responsive? Like, do you press them many times in order to generate a response? If yes, then you aren’t alone.

There have been similar reports from other Galaxy Note 9 users as well. What makes this news worthy is that Samsung has confirmed the problem, saying a fix is being worked on.

Samsung’s Galaxy Note 9 was seen as the ultimate evolution of the current generation - the Galaxy S10 is expected to make a larger step forward with improved camera and biometrics technology. These flaws on the Note 9, which appear to be software based, are not easily hand waved away.

As consumers look for more frequent and stable updates to their smartphone’s core apps and OS framework, it’s important that new changes can be rolled out as well as having the infrastructure to develop and test the various configuration. Google has placed a lot of emphasis on achieving the former through the new framework of Android, but this only works if manufacturers can work with the framework and allocate resources.

One of the most compelling mainstream arguments for Apple’s iPhone is the frequency of software updates. Google has picked up this challenge, but as arguably the lead manufacturer in Android, Samsung needs to follow though to raise the tide for the platform.

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Huawei took it to the next level by trolling the rival in a unique way. iPhone lovers have been waiting in long queues outside the Apple store to get their hands on the newly launched iPhone, this is where Huawei came in.

Huawei representatives handed out free power banks to those people, the box of which read, “Here’s a power bank. You’ll need it. Courtesy of Huawei.” To fans waiting overnight for the iPhone XS. The tagline simply pointed out to the fact that the Chinese smartphone manufacturer has better battery life than the Cupertino smartphone manufacturer’s.



Not only the free power bank giveaways, Huawei also set up a juice bar with a tagline, “Ju%ce that lasts,” followed with a hashtag of #higherintelligence. Not to mention the juice van also has a small crossed out picture of Apple where it served selection of drinks, none of which contained ‘no traces of Apple’. The van also has charging points, again hinting at a better battery life than Apple’s new phone, wrote Mirror.

Huawei is supposed to release its new Huawei Mate 20 this October 16, a phone that might the better battery life and ‘higher AI intelligence’. Huawei also recently surpassed Apple to be the second largest smartphone manufacturer, pushing Apple down to third place.

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Previously Apple has released security patches through its regular software update system which requires user approval.

The latest bugs were so severe it felt it needed to get customers protected immediately, the firm said.

"The update is seamless. It doesn't even require a restart," Apple spokesman Bill Evans told Reuters.

The Mac bugs were mentioned in security bulletins issued last week by the Department of Homeland Security and the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute.

The vulnerability targets a component of its OS X operating system called the network time protocol (NTP) which is used for synchronising clocks on computer systems.

The protocol is a global method of synchronising time over a network and has previously been exploited by hackers.

Microsoft has been offering automatic updates for security flaws for some time.

Apple developed technology for automatically pushing out security updates two years ago but has never previously used it.

The firm said that it did not know of any cases where hackers had exploited the bug.

Windows Phone isn't doing too well against iOS and Android, we all know that, but Microsoft is obviously working on a plan to push Windows Phone into more consumers' hands.

This plan, according to AllThingsD, is to sell the super-cheap Nokia Lumia 521 in huge numbers at Walmart. Selling them in large numbers will require a cheap price, so how does $150 off contract sound? Considering the iPhone and Galaxy S4 both sell for around $200 or so, on a two-year contract, the Lumia 521 at $150 outright would be quite a steal.
The Lumia 521 features a 4-inch 800x480-pixel display, dual-core 1GHz processor and a 5-megapixel rear-facing camera.


source: tweaktown.com