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Archives for February 2024

Jon Porter
Jon Porter
A short gif of Infinix’s color-changing charging E Ink phone concept.

Plug in Infinix’s E-Color Shift phone, and its E Ink back rapidly cycles between different colors, and only stops when you unplug it again. Infinix hopes to one day let you choose between different colors in software (you can see less flashy design options here), since the process is far from practical in its current form.

Gif of Infinix concept phone E-Ink display changing colors.
When plugged in, the rear of the concept phone cycles through a series of colors.
Video by Jon Porter / The Verge
Wes Davis
Wes Davis
Here’s five bucks for your trouble.

Following its hours-long nationwide disruption on Thursday, AT&T has announced it is reaching out to “potentially impacted customers” and is slapping a whole $5 credit on their accounts, which it says is the “average cost of a full day of service.”

Hooray?

Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
Did today’s update improve your Samsung Galaxy S24’s camera?

Inquiring minds would like to know. Officially, there’s a new “vividness” option, and “image quality and sharpness optimization code has been applied” as well.

Unofficially, SamMobile says it “improves text clarity while using high zoom ranges,” improves “the exposure of dark parts of a scene while capturing images indoors,” helps with backlit photos, improves colors and exposure in various photo modes, and more.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
X is starting to roll out search filters.

Premium users on iOS will see the feature first, according to X designer Andrea Conway. The feature will let you sort through posts based on the date, language, location, and more.

Image: Andrea Conway via X
Emma Roth
Emma Roth
The App Store verification prompt in iOS 17.4 is just a bug.

Earlier today, iSoftware Updates (via MacRumors), spotted a new prompt in the iOS 17.4 beta 4 that asks EU users to “verify the information before installing” an app on the App Store. However, Apple spokesperson Peter Ajemian tells The Verge the feature is just a bug, and it will be disabled before iOS 17.4 rolls out.

Update February 23rd, 3:16PMET: Noted that this notification is a bug.

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
AT&T says its massive wireless outage was probably not due to a cyberattack.

After AT&T wireless service went out for many customers and even first responders across the US Thursday morning, one of the concerns was that the problem, and AT&T’s long delay before making a public statement about it, indicated a possible security breach.

However, according to this tweet, the company thinks it has identified the cause, described as “ the application & execution of an incorrect process used as we were expanding our network.”

Thomas Ricker
Thomas Ricker
Huawei’s latest foldable is the Pocket 2.

Despite US sanctions the company continues to pump out interesting (HarmonyOS 4) handsets including this new clamshell with folding 6.94-inch 2690 × 1136 (420ppi) OLED display and a cluster of four cameras on the outside, one of which measures UV light for sun protection. It’s got satellite messaging, 66W wired and 40W wireless fast charging, and hands-free gesture controls.

Prices start at ¥7,499 (about $1,000) for the 12GB/256GB model.

Thomas Ricker
Thomas Ricker
A better look at Nothing’s Phone 2A.

Not all renders are the same and the latest batch posted (and removed) to the Nothing Community site are labeled “official press renders.” While they mostly align with previous renders from Onleaks, the side buttons are different here and we’re now seeing it in white. Of course, it’s still just rumor until this thing gets official on March 5th.

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