In their monthly announcement, among all the cool things Pine64, they talked about the open firmware for PinePhone’s LTE modem. The firmware isn’t fully open – a few parts remain closed. And Pine ...
Most modern smartphones actually run two different operating systems – there’s the one you interact with directly and there’s the firmware running on the modem system-on-a-chip, which is basically ...
In their monthly announcement, among all the cool things Pine64, they talked about the open firmware for PinePhone’s LTE modem. The firmware isn’t fully open – a few parts remain closed. And Pine ...
The PinePhone is an inexpensive smartphone designed to run free and open source operating systems like Manjaro, postmarketOS, Mobian, or Ubuntu Touch. But the phone isn’t 100-percent open hardware: ...
The modem is a critical component of your phone, and it uses complex code to help perform its functions. For example, Google's Pixel modem firmware has tens of megabytes of executable code written in ...
To protect the Pixel modem from zero-day attacks, Google focused on the DNS parser. As cellular features have migrated to ...
The Pixel 10 is getting a security upgrade that won’t show up in speed tests or signal bars, but it could matter more than either one. Google has integrated Rust into the phone’s modem firmware, ...