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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday December 13 2017, @06:33PM   Printer-friendly
from the who-doesn't-like-Oreos dept.

Android Oreo was released on August 21. Adoption is at 0.5% (among devices that accessed the Play Store in early December):

Yesterday, Google released some fresh platform data explaining how many devices are running each version. Android 8.0, as you might expect, is struggling with a measly 0.5 percent share. Google's latest Pixel phones run the software, but otherwise it's hard to come by. There are some outliers, of course — the quietly impressive HTC U11, for instance — but most are still shipping with a variant of Android Nougat. Which is, well, hardly ideal for Google.

Android 7.0 and 7.1 have a combined share of 23.3 percent. Respectable, but still behind 6.0 Marshmallow (29.7 percent) and Android Lollipop (26.3 percent).

Here's an article about changes in Android 8.1.

Also at 9to5Google and Wccftech.


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by frojack on Wednesday December 13 2017, @09:09PM (2 children)

    by frojack (1554) on Wednesday December 13 2017, @09:09PM (#609383) Journal

    Layered tin foil sleeve is best. Confirmed works.

    Or Airplane mode.

    But hey, why miss a chance to pontificate about Faraday cages?

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday December 13 2017, @09:24PM

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Wednesday December 13 2017, @09:24PM (#609396) Journal

    When I feel like going paranoid, I put it on Airplane Mode AND insert it into a layered aluminum foil sleeve. You could remove your battery, but is there a hidden secondary battery?

    Unless you've rooted your phone, you can't really trust that it's not transmitting. Unless you probe it with lab equipment. Even then, maybe the SoCs will come with nearly impossible to detect neutrino emitters in the future (that's a joke. or is it?).

    Wrap your tool in foil and you don't need to worry about Airplane Mode not working. And it does work. Put your phone in the foil sleeve, pull it out, and you should briefly see an indicator of the near-zero connectivity it just had in the moment before it reconnects to the network (maybe we shouldn't trust that! aknfdajndfnfdn).

    Wrapping in foil is also a physical impediment to surveillance in the case in which a three letter agency has decided to pwn your phone, nullifying Airplane Mode.

    Airplane Mode also might not exist in the coming years since the relevant policies could easily be reversed in the future [washingtonpost.com] (archive [archive.fo]).

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  • (Score: 1) by Crash on Thursday December 14 2017, @06:58PM

    by Crash (1335) on Thursday December 14 2017, @06:58PM (#609805)

    Or just turn off mobile data. Swipe Down, Tap, Tap. I only enable mobile data & location when its required for something *I need*.