16 September 2020

Trust the mainstream media on a tech article?


Who you do trust when it comes to articles?

Well, according to the New South Wales police force (the first force in Australia made up entirely of criminals), the government is the one you trust, where the responses on social media suggested otherwise, but that’s another story and if you must, then:



https://www.facebook.com/nswpoliceforce/posts/10158234397146185

Samsung is aggressively advertising its new flagship Note20 Ultra 5G (that you really need or want?) where its accolade is ‘all day’ battery life.

Remember phones that had all week battery life?

Okay that may not be fair, because they were feature (or dumb) phones, but how about older smart phones that had a few days battery life?

Let’s make the excuse of larger screens, quicker processors maybe even approaching ‘supercomputer’ speeds (well according to Victorian premier Daniel Michael Andrews), but battery technology and size has also progressed to compensate for the power hungry components.

So what’s really killing your battery where you cannot get more than a day out of your $2k flagship?


Two culprits that the majority of people have, that being the OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer ) software, where we’ll start with first.

Most new Android phones come loaded with Google’s version of Android being at Q for 2020, which is an update from Pie or version 9, which is an update from Oreo or version 8.

Together with the OEM’s (Samsung, Motorola, Nokia  etc) software suite preloaded on the phone, this year’s version Q has an unprecedented level of spyware built into the operating system, which the ‘consumer’ cannot get rid of.

This comes in the form of Contact Tracing and Wi-Fi Scanning, where your movements are constantly being recorded and then transmitted to overseas servers.

The problem for the consumer is that the person is not in control of their data flow and there is no way of disabling this, even with the software toggles turned off.

The other battery drainer is the Facebook app.

It's literally spyware and if you MUST use face book use your smartphone's browser instead or better still use it on a personal computer.

Apple's iOS is also a data gathering 'spyware' platform which is not discussed in this post.

With regards to the Android operating system, not all is lost though.

There are about two dozen phone manufacturers including Google, Huawei, LG, Motorola, Samsung and Sony where you can remove Google’s spyware version of Android which also includes Contract Tracing and install a bare bones Android called AOSP (Android Open Source Project) where also Wi-Fi scanning does not work.

In test results which we obtained where the smartphone was loaded with the factory operating system, compared to the AOSP version, the battery life was literally doubled, i.e. over 2 days worth of ‘normal’ use with AOSP.

Do you really need to latest self-sponsored corporate/government surveillance device?

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