The exhibition Mobile Choice Consumer Awards 2017 in which the best smartphones of the past year were selected, the smartphone Samsung Galaxy S8 received the championship in the class of flagships. Among the middle classes of smart phones, the championship was won by Huawei Honor 9, smartphone Motorola Moto E4 won in the class of budget smartphones.Apple Watch 2 became the winner of wearable devices.

Unfortunately, at all times there are people who are trying to find their interest and benefit, even on someone else’s grief. The other day, a virus has activated that, under the guise of a coronavirus tracker, blocks the smartphone’s screen and requires money to unlock.The CovidLock virus has been identified by DomainTools virus detection and information security experts. According to experts, the ransomware penetrates the device due to security system gaps, and then blocks it and demands to pay $ 100 for unlocking within two days. Otherwise, attackers threaten to delete all information on the device.The virus poses the greatest threat to older mobile devices using outdated software.By the way, users of the Reddit resource found a key to unlock the screen. To do this, you need to enter the following combination of numbers on the keyboard

Samsung has today launched a global update of last year”s Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge to the latest version of Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow operating system. At the same time, Galaxy S6 Edge Plus also has begun to receive a new firmware, but so far only in South Korea. It is worth noting that we are talking only about the unlocked version without committing to mobile operators. Most of the changes have touched not the appearance of the system, and optimization and software. Updates brought Doze mode, saving battery power when your device is idle and Now On Tap function.In the case of the Galaxy S6 Edge and Galaxy S6 Edge Plus lateral width of the screen when called up from the pixels 260 to 540. This means that there can now display more content and useful information. Samsung has also increased the speed of its opening, smooth and precise response. Also, now more and more applications support side screen.

Apparently, soon the information on updating the mobile system will be located in a separate menu of the company store Google Play. At least, programmers found information about this update in the program code of the newest version of the store.The importance of operational updates is difficult to overestimate, because in it the developer “patches” all found gaps in the security of the device, and at the same time improves its speed and expands its functionality. The only problem is that at the moment many users cannot regularly update the mobile system because they simply do not notice the corresponding message and do not know where to look for it.It is also possible that Google will simply associate its services with the update of Android.

About 6 million mobile devices worldwide running Android 4.0 will no longer be served by Google. This means that from now on these devices will not receive updates and will not be able to use the services of the company, in particular Google Play.The operating system under the appealing name “Ice Cream Sandwich” was introduced in the fall of 2011, currently, according to official Google information, it is installed on 0.3 percent of mobile devices. Company analysts are confident that most of them are inactive and are not used by the owners.From now on, the most “ancient” version of Android is Jelly Bean, but stopping its support is only a matter of time.

The other day, there was an exact date for the release of the new version of Android, namely August 21. According to the developers, the new system will acquire many additional innovations, such as limiting background applications, revised and improved new notifications, as well as a new technology will be added that can recognize screen gestures.