Essential Phone receives update against Specter and Meltdown

Essential Phone is the first smartphone launched by the new company of Andy Rubin , the father of Android. This equipment brought us a bold design that had everything to triumph in the market, something that, unfortunately, did not materialize. Still, there are copies in the hands of users and as such it is imperative to protect them from the recent Specter and Meltdown threats.

Very recently a security flaw has been discovered that affects most of the processors present in the technology market. Initially considered as a problem exclusive to Intel processors, with the release of more details it was concluded that many more chips are affected.

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Processors developed by Intel, Qualcomm and AMD are affected by Specter and Meltdown threats. Briefly, these threats compromise the security of user data, as they allow applications to gain undue access to data from others.

Essential Phone is no longer vulnerable to Specter and Meltdown

Indeed, any user, be it from a computer, smartphone or tablet, longs for the correction of these problems. There are already some operating systems with the update and now is the turn of Essential to follow the same path.The solution of this problem has to start from the companies responsible for the development of the operating system in question. That is, Intel, Qualcomm or AMD can do nothing to correct these vulnerabilities.

The latest update for Essential Phone then prevents this smartphone from Specter and Meltdown threats. In fact, if you have a copy of this smartphone, it is highly recommended that you perform this update.

But this is not just what the new Essential Phone update brings to its users. This update also brings with it the January security fix for Android. This is the latest update available from Google that will protect you from the many other threats inherent in Android.

Unfortunately, for all Essential Phone users, it is not yet that the final version of Android Oreo is available. This device has been testing the new taste of Android over the past few months. As for the arrival of such a final version, the company only states that it is close.

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