It started with an unprecedented message from the founder of Telegram on WhatsApp, continued with the launches of Xiaomi products and the strange bug in the iPhone 14 and continued with the new VR headset from Meta.
Pavel Durov, founder and CEO of Telegram, is exaggerating his position against his main competitor in the global markets – WhatsApp. In the post that he published, Durov states that WhatsApp is nothing less than a “means of espionage”, and that various security flaws that are discovered in it from time to time are not “accidental failures”, but vulnerabilities planted in the application on purpose.
Xiaomi has officially launched the global version of the Smart Band 7 Pro, the updated model of its popular fitness bracelet that has a much larger screen, now that it comes with Hebrew support directly from the factory. The price is 89 dollars which is about 300 shekels.
Meta has officially announced the company’s new virtual/mixed reality mirror Quest Pro and it defines it as its most advanced product to date, by a wide margin compared to the previous products it launched in the field, and according to it this is a virtual reality (VR) device intended for use in all areas of life , from games to work.
Meta’s security researchers announced this weekend that they have identified over 400 apps in the Android and iOS stores that they say were designed to steal their login details for Facebook and other services.
One of the innovations of the iPhone 14 series to which Apple devoted quite a bit of time during the announcement event is ‘accident detection’, a system that should detect a situation in which the user is involved in a car accident and call for help automatically. The same feature has also been incorporated into the new Apple Watch Series 8 watches, as well as the Apple Watch Ultra.
A few days after the announcement, Xiaomi as usual launched the pair of 12T devices for sale on its official AliExpress store. These will be offered at a starting price of $549 and $749 respectively, with the first buyers enjoying a Redmi Watch 2 Lite and also a price discount for a limited time.
Alongside the new flagship models with a 200 megapixel camera, Xiaomi also revealed a new and much more modest device: the Redmi A1+, an entry-level device that also has a modest price – only 89 dollars.