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T-Mobile Scam Shield dealt with an impressive 41.5 billion scam calls in 2022

T-Mobile shared details about its fight against robocalls and how it protects its customers.

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While T-Mobile isn't doing such a great job of protecting its customers when it comes to its data, the wireless carrier does appear to be winning the fight against scam calls, sharing that it blocked an impressive 41.5 billion scam calls in 2022. The company shared the news in its second annual Scam and Robocall Report, offering major details with regard to scam, spam and robocall activity the carrier faced last year.

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PSA: Watch out for this spam text; T-Mobile is not giving you a $100 free gift

A massive wave of spam texts all with a specific image is hitting T-Mobile customers' phones. Don't click it.

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T-Mobile's recent data breach might be coming back to bite them once again, as a number of posts on the T-Mobile subreddit indicate a massive spam text campaign is under way.

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Fake Galaxy S21 Ultra vs Real Galaxy S21 Ultra

How does a fake Galaxy S21 Ultra priced at $100 compare against Samsung's real flagship? Not well, as expected.

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Samsung's Galaxy S21 Ultra is arguably the best smartphone in the world right now -- in fact, we have it topping our Best Android and Best smartphone camera lists. But due to its relatively high four-digit price tag, the phone is out of reach for many consumers. That has opened up the door for dishonest manufacturers to make fakes.

The "Freedom Phone" is an overpriced smartphone that doesn't free you from anything

The recently announced Freedom Phone is nothing more than an overpriced Chinese smartphone that doesn't free you from anything.

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It's not every day that a new smartphone company pops up, claiming to offer a device that protects your "freedom of speech" from Big Tech. So, when Erik Finman, a self-proclaimed "Bitcoin millionaire," announced the Freedom Phone yesterday, it piqued our interest. Finman claims that the Freedom Phone is "the first major pushback on Big Tech companies that attacked us [American conservatives]," and it features an "uncensorable app store" that will offer all the apps that have been banned on mainstream app stores. But is the phone actually all that Finman claims it to be? Let's find out.

Android-x86 Accuses Console OS of Scamming -- What Happened

Read our complete timeline and analysis of the Console OS and Android-x86 controversy.

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A storm has been brewing in the Android-x86 developer community. The CEO of crowdfunded project ‘Console OS’ has been accused of scamming his Kickstarter backers by failing to deliver on his promises. Thanks to popular threads on social media sites such as reddit, the storm grew into a full-blown drama hurricane.