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grishka on Aug 24, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Samsung kills the cameras on the Galaxy Z Fold 3 i...

But it still contains a cellular modem and a wifi module, both of which run proprietary firmwares.

teddyh on Aug 25, 2021 [–]

But, crucially, they both run externally to the CPU and main system, and can not affect it in any way. It’s just as if they had put the firmware on a ROM chip beside the modem and wifi chip.

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