Check for the latest October security patch because this one is sneaky. Security researcher Mark Blaszczyk found a new scary vulnerability that affects...
Way back in the day, Samsung would even give the same name to completely different devices. “Galaxy S3 (International)” had a Qualcomm System-on-a-Chip and “Galaxy S3 (US)” was a whole bunch of different model numbers for each carrier, all with Samsung Exynos SoCs.
In the US at least, system updates are managed by the carriers. 🤦 A device wouldn’t get updates made for another region because they are different builds for each region or carrier.
Verizon devices have never had unlockable bootloaders so they can’t even get homebrew updates after Verizon stops supporting the device. Using open-source software and then locking it in should be illegal. 😅
Way back in the day, Samsung would even give the same name to completely different devices. “Galaxy S3 (International)” had a Qualcomm System-on-a-Chip and “Galaxy S3 (US)” was a whole bunch of different model numbers for each carrier, all with Samsung Exynos SoCs.
In the US at least, system updates are managed by the carriers. 🤦 A device wouldn’t get updates made for another region because they are different builds for each region or carrier.
Verizon devices have never had unlockable bootloaders so they can’t even get homebrew updates after Verizon stops supporting the device. Using open-source software and then locking it in should be illegal. 😅