Phonecast

This is the Go Cell Phone Repair weekly livestream where we talk about all things tech. Today’s discussion includes how battery explosions and throttling may give right to repair a boost, how the Strava fitness app may give away secret military base locations, and more.

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Right to Repair Affected by Battery Throttling Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/ar…, http://bit.ly/2BCcrZK, Apple Insider, 9to5 Mac http://bit.ly/2En2kuQ, Washington State Legislature http://bit.ly/2BD1Rll

Strava App May have given away secret military base locations. Washington Post http://wapo.st/2EmDWcx, BBC http://bbc.in/2Ekx7bN, NY Times http://nyti.ms/2DNE5su, Think Progress http://bit.ly/2GvTc7V, Digital Trends http://bit.ly/2E0B1si

This week we have a guest via Google Hangouts. Gregg is a YouTuber who publishes daily video tech news. You can find his channel here.

Check out N8S Tech Services new location and channel. http://bit.ly/2Bkhb5Z

iPhone X purchase leads to battering ram and handcuffs. Slashdot http://bit.ly/2DxPkof, Littlethings http://bit.ly/2ruob0J, CBS Local http://cbsloc.al/2DznJmG

Apple’s new advertisement. The Verge http://bit.ly/2F2Rfya, CNET http://cnet.co/2DXu7BL, Phonearena http://bit.ly/2G8VIRk

Samsung Galaxy S9 Slashgear http://bit.ly/2n1zg3y, Tomsguide http://bit.ly/2DxQJMh, WCCFTech http://bit.ly/2F3MXq7

This is the Go Cell Phone Repair weekly livestream where we talk about all things tech. What’s new in phones, repairs, and the wireless industry as a whole.

Galaxy Note 9 “Metal 12” Magnesium Aluminium alloy. Techjuice http://bit.ly/2mThQXU, GSM Arena http://bit.ly/2DnXQqG, Alphr http://bit.ly/2Drt5kr

iOS update will allow users to turn off iPhone battery throttling. Mirror UK http://bit.ly/2DvnGrM, Global News http://bit.ly/2DOPZzn, Daily Mail UK http://dailym.ai/2Betwsi, The Verge http://bit.ly/2rj0l7P

Wehe App tracks ISP throttling. Google Play link http://bit.ly/2mUQKiQ, App store https://apple.co/2FTsm9n, Apple Insider http://bit.ly/2DOrCBO, iDrop News http://bit.ly/2DnnR9o

Vuzix Augmented Reality Smart Glasses https://www.vuzix.com/, PRNewswire

Apple has released 11.2.2 and this is in part meant to address vulnerabilities to Meltdown and Spectre. Of course any update tends to mean slower processing speeds for previous iPhone models meaning that if you have an iPhone X this shouldn’t”t be a big deal. For everyone else who doesn’t happen to own a flagship device, well, let’s talk about that.

About speculative execution vulnerabilities in ARM-based and Intel CPUs Apple’s website https://apple.co/2qpC6Vc

What will iOS 11.2.2 do to/for your iPhone? http://bit.ly/2rfqeWn

Galaxy S9 is coming to MWC http://bit.ly/2B5fycq

No, accidental damage is not covered by a warranty. Insurance is what you are looking for. http://bit.ly/2mCuauL

1:40 California health officials release guidelines on cellphone radiation http://cbsn.ws/2BxyaG8 http://tcrn.ch/2ohg6Lc

12:35 Blue blocker glasses for computer use http://bit.ly/2BJXkkW

13:50 Will there be after market OLEDs for the iPhone X?

15:35 Radiation blockers for cell phones?

21:00 The FCC does not care what we think https://www.battleforthenet.com/

23:55 Do you buy after market screens?

28:05 Apple considers a whispering Siri function http://bit.ly/2kgBCvb

32:40 People want choices, but not too many.

36:00 Apple’s Alleged Throttling of Older iPhones With Degraded Batteries http://bit.ly/2AbdCiQ

CPUDasherX http://apple.co/2kIonmc

FCC Ignores Americans’ Wishes http://bit.ly/2Cz1OaU http://bit.ly/2zYdwhx http://bit.ly/2yUBN3C

40:00 Meet the Phone That Does What the iPhone X Can’t http://bit.ly/2Bu6L5v

44:25 Chinese woman discovers that her iPhone X can be unlocked by her friend’s face http://bit.ly/2yU3rxO

47:15 What is Bitcoin? http://cnet.co/2oDenjr

Transcript and sources:

How does rice remove moisture from a cellphone?

No. No no no, can we just please stop with the rice fixes wet phones thing already? It doesn’t and you are wasting perfectly good rice. Beside that you will probably introduce smaller particles of broken rice grains into your phone causing a whole different set of problems. These articles keep getting into my feed somehow and I feel obligated to point out that this is how superstition perpetuates itself. Someone gives you bad advice, you follow it and get lucky somehow therefore that advice now makes sense. Causation does not equal correlation. If some people want to believe that rice fixes their phone, their lucky shirt helped win the game, or that breaking a mirror means 7 years bad luck, okay I know that nothing I say will help but for everyone else think about this. It’s not just water that harms your phone it’s the other things in the water like minerals, chlorine, salt, sugar, depending on where the moisture came from any number of chemical compounds. Tap water has all sorts of stuff in it besides H20. Even if the water inside evaporates it leaves behind other things that cause corrosion sometimes over a long period of time. There’s no amount of rice that will help remove these as they need to be physically cleaned. If not, you are really hoping to get lucky in that the water didn’t make it far inside of your phone. This is an actual quote from the article:

“Rice is carbohydrates, it’s starch and the starch molecules can soak up a huge amount of water so I suspect by putting your phone in a jar of dry rice, the rice carbs pull the water out of the air around each rice particle.

    — Chris Smith, The Naked Scientist

Hmm… no credentials after that name though so I’m not sure what kind of scientist he is other than a naked one I guess.

I’m Mike from Go Cell Phone Repair and if you enjoy this video be sure to hit the subscribe button and the bell notification icon for more tech news and tutorials. 

Apple is reportedly buying Shazam

For $400 million according to Recode. Not a huge surprise since that’s what corporations do. Find something that they want to use now or in the future and buy the company that owns it. So what will Apple do with Shazam and its technology? There seems to be a lot of speculation about using it for Augmented Reality possibly even creating its own version of Google Lens. Also of importance is the fact that Apple owning Shazam could have a big impact on music services like Spotify where Shazam has at least up until now sent over a million clicks per day. All to be directed to iTunes once the deal is finalized at least one would think.

If you’ve ever wished that there was a Shazam for singing, humming, or whistling a tune… there is. Or there are. Midomi and Musipedia are a couple of the options available for anyone who remembers what a song sounded like but didn’t have Shazam on them at the time. I didn’t know that until I looked it up today. Really thought that I had the perfect Million dollar app idea but nope. Already been done.

Will Samsung still accept Galaxy Note 7s as part of its recall p

Transcript:

Did your iPhone suddenly crash on December 2nd? Is it rebooting for no reason? Well no need to worry, it’s not just you. And there’s an easy fix.

I’m Mike from Go Cell Phone Repair and if you enjoy this video be sure to hit the subscribe button and the bell notification icon for more tech news and tutorials.

If you update to iOS 11.2 you should eliminate the December 2nd problem. If for any reason you are unable to do so right away, or don’t want to upgrade you can manually set the clock on your iPhone to November 28th and your rebooting problem will be solved. You’ll be off by a couple of days but at least your phone won’t reboot for no reason. No idea why the previous iOS didn’t like December 2nd.

Apple’s been having it’s share of software problems lately including the undoing of a patch that was supposed to fix the “root” bug. If you didn’t hear about that one already, according to Wired.Com macOS High Sierra had a hole in the systems security that allowed any malicious person or program trying to log into your computer to simply enter root as the username and leave the password field blank. They could then bypass the prompt and get full access to your computer. Those who hadn’t upgraded to High Sierra 10.13.1 before installing the patch released by Apple found that installing the patch and then upgrading their macOS would cause the bug to reappear.

Apple’s support page says “If you recently updated from macOS High Sierra 10.13 to 10.13.1, reboot your Mac to make sure the Security Update is applied properly. Or if you see MRTConfigData 1.27 in the Installations list under Software in System Report, your Mac is also protected.”

I know that’s a lot to remember so I’ll include a link in the video description and you can read the details for yourself.

Cell phone addiction could affect your brain. I could have told you that. According to a report… No actually according to a study published by Science Daily smartphone and internet addicted teenagers have higher rates of depression, anxiety, insomnia, and impulsiveness. Apparently addicted teens have an imbalance in their brain chemistry resulting in increased levels of gamma aminobutyric acid, a neurotransmitter that slows down brain signals. So yes, too much phone and internet can make you slow. So what’s my excuse? I’m not a teenager.

BART cell phone theft is up this year. In 2015 there were 180 cell phone thefts on the Bay Areas Rapid Transit train system, 274 in 2016, and 225 in just the first half of 2017. Many of these thefts are committed by young people including a group of between 40-60 kids who got onto a bart train back in April at the Oakland coliseum station where they robbed several people of cell phones and bags leaving at least two people injured. BART launched an awareness campaign to educate riders about the possibility of phone theft and encourages them to keep their belongings secure especially near the doors of the train where thieves are more likely to grab and run.

Google has been accused of stealing millions of iPhone users data illegally. News.com.au says that a consumer activist has launched a class action lawsuit that could lead to a payout into the hundreds of millions for the 5 million iPhone users whose data was collected without their knowledge. Google supposedly bypassed the security of Apples Safari app and planted cookies into phones before later selling collected data to an advertising network. Bad Google. But surprising to hear that there are actually 5 million people who use Safari. It doesn’t seem to be all that popular at least in the US. Google denies that it acted illegally and says that it has defended similar cases in the past. I assume successfully. The British group dubbed “Google You Owe Us” says that the unlawful cookies were planted between 2011-2012. If the suit is successful British iPhone users could be awarded 300 lbs. compensation per person.