Android Leftovers

• Galaxy S9 may soon receive its biggest Android update EVER

• Honor 9X EMUI 10 (Android 10) beta expands into markets outside China

• Verizon LG G8 Just Got Android 10

• Hisense's 65-inch 4K Smart Android TV is down to $350 in time for the Super Bowl

• Sling TV Is Adding Support for Samsung TV’s & Android TV’s Integrated Guide

• How to Get Text Messages on Fitbit Versa 2 from Android and iPhone

• The Android Police Podcast is live!

• New ‘Lab’ poised to bring home screen Google Doodles to non-Pixel Android phones

Android Leftovers

• Top 5 Medical / Health Care Apps 2019 (Android / iOS)

• Chrome for Android tests new share menu w/ QR code and screenshot sharing

• Huawei EMUI 10 Android update begins this month with six devices

• Android Banking Trojan Faketoken Now Also Messages Premium Rate Phone Numbers

• If you have any of these Android apps on your phone, delete them immediately!

Firefox 72.0.2 Improves Playback Performance for Full-Screen 1080p Videos

Coming almost two weeks after the Firefox 72.0.1 point release, which was an important security update addressing a zero-day vulnerability, the Firefox 72.0.2 update is a maintenance release that fixes various issues, such as the inconsistent playback performance for full-screen 1080p videos on certain systems. Firefox 72.0.2 also addresses a web compatibility issue with CSS Shadow Parts, which shipped as part of the Firefox 72 release, a hang that occurred when opening about:logins when a master password is set, issues reported by users when attempting to open files containing spaces in their path, as well as various stability issues.

XanMod-ing Ubuntu To Perform Closer To Intel's Clear Linux

Earlier this month many Phoronix readers were interested in our fresh tests of the XanMod-patched Linux kernel for boosting the desktop and workstation performance compared to Ubuntu's default Linux kernel. Among many patches, XanMod does pull in some kernel patches from Intel's performance-optimized Clear Linux, so we figured it would be interesting to see how the XanMod'ed Ubuntu compares to Clear Linux performance. As covered more in the earlier article, the XanMod Linux kernel flavor makes use of the BFQ I/O scheduler, offers CPU scaling governor improvements, makes use of preemptive full tickless kernel settings, and has a variety of other patches from leveraging Clear Linux optimizations to the BMQ process scheduler to the Proton FSYNC patches to much more. This round of testing was using a daily snapshot of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS with its current Linux 5.4 default kernel and then re-tested using the same Ubuntu 20.04 LTS installation but running on the 4.1.10-xanmod6 kernel at the time. Additionally, the same CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS as Clear Linux defaults to were also utilized.