OnePlus tweet teases a Dash Charge-facing announcement
OnePlus has an announcement coming up soon. And no, it is not another colour variant of the OnePlus 3T. According to a tweet sent out on OnePlus' official Twitter handle, this announcement pertains to Dash Charging.
OnePlus has an announcement coming up soon. And no, it is not another colour variant of the OnePlus 3T. According to a tweet sent out on OnePlus' official Twitter handle, this announcement pertains to Dash Charging.https://twitter.com/oneplus/status/847463547470626816There are no hints other than the promise of a 'future of Dash Charge'. Dash Charging is one of the unique selling points of the OnePlus 3 and OnePlus 3T. It lets you charge your phone quickly - with around 30 mins of charging giving you enough juice to last through the major part of your day.Speculations around this announcement are hinting at a Dash Charge compatible power bank.https://twitter.com/getpeid/status/847149711253372928Considering it is 1 April tomorrow, one could also say that this may be OnePlus' idea of playing a prank, but one of the founders, Carl Pei has also been tweeting about this announcement on his personal account. Maybe he is in on the prank, if it is a prank indeed. One can't say for sure.Recently there was a vulnerability that was discovered, which let hackers attack your OnePlus 3 or OnePlus 3T smartphone using malicious chargers.According to Aleph Security blog post, the security company posted details about the security flaw where hackers can infect your device using a malicious charger.This flaw comes weeks after other flaws were pointed in the OnePlus bootloader. This flaw relies on CVE-2017-5622, CVE-2017-5624 and CVE-2017-5626 vulnerabilities where the CVE-2017-5622 is the one that researchers recently discovered. However, before diving into the details, it is worth pointing out that OnePlus fixed CVE-2017-5626 in OxygenOS 4.0.2 while CVE-2017-5622 and CVE-2017-5624 were fixed in OxygenOS 4.0.3.

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