New Weather Apps - Sep'20 (Week - 01)

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This week we have brought brand new weather apps worth trying. 1.  CliMate Released date: 25Jul2020 Downloads:  50+ Size: 2.37 MB Version: 1.15.2  Climate is surely a new entrant to the play store but not just another basic weather app since it offers all the features of a weather app without any ads and in-app purchases with a clean and simlple UI along with loads of customization options. Features: Themes support. Complete weather report for a week. Customizable units Parameters such as temperature, wind speed, Humidity, Pressure, UV Index available. Sunrise and Sunset. Widget support. Graphical representation of the data. Mostly shows accurate data.
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ONEPLUS Collecting Private Data from the Users??!!

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In the past, we had seen few Chinese Smartphone makers have has collected users private data without any permission. This time its ONEPLUS turn.

 In General, every phone(Both iPhone and Android ) collects information of its USERS like how often you unlock your phone, the apps you open and use, and the Wi-Fi networks you connect to.

 According to an Engineer (Christopher Moore) blog, the OnePlus software (Oxygen OS) collects users data on the OnePlus2 device. He also stated this, OnePlus also collects the phone’s IMEI, phone number, and mobile network names, so the data sent is identifiable to you personally with little to no effort required, which is what makes this very problematic. According to Moore, a software code is responsible for the data collection is part of OnePlus Device Manager and OnePlus Device Manager Provider. Moore says in this case, the services had sent off 16MB of data in 10 hours.


After the report went viral on the internet, OnePlus in a statement to the Android Police, says that the company does collect the information from phones. But, notes the company, this is to understand the problems that the users are facing and solve them in the forthcoming update.

 In response this is what OnePlus had to say:

"We securely transmit analytics in two different streams over HTTPS to an Amazon server. The first stream is usage analytics, which we collect in order for us to more precisely fine-tune our software according to user behavior. This transmission of user activity can be turned off by navigating to 'Settings' -> 'Advanced' -> 'Join user experience program'. The second stream is device information, which we collect to provide better after-sales support."

 This incident implies " OnePlus doesn't want its users to SETTLE DOWN".

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