Smartphones

8.1 Speedometer (via ZDNet) Android 8.1 tells you how slow or fast Wi-Fi networks are before connecting / http://www.zdnet.com/article/android-8-1-tells-you-how-slow-or-fast-wi-fi-networks-are-before-connecting-to-them/

Most powerful tool, this week: (via ITPro) Kaspersky uncovers 'world's most powerful' Android spyware tool, Skygofree / http://www.itpro.co.uk/spyware/30305/kaspersky-uncovers-worlds-most-powerful-android-spyware-tool-skygofree

Not the app you were looking for: (via BBC) Fake WhatsApp app downloaded more than one million times / http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-41886157

Teaching what NDAs mean: (via BBC) Apple engineer 'fired' over early iPhone X leak / http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-41801704

Burn out? (via AC) Does the Google Pixel 2 XL have a screen burn-in problem? / https://www.androidcentral.com/google-pixel-2-xl-screen-burn

Quick to patch: (via CNet) Pixel 2XL gets color saturation, burn-in protections / https://www.cnet.com/news/pixel-2xl-gets-color-saturation-burn-in-protections/