The popular WhatsApp messenger will improve privacy. The new feature will allow users to hide their phone numbers in groups. So far, this feature is only available in beta version 2.22.17.23. and only on Android.

It was announced by Mark Zuckerberg. The new feature will allow you to hide the number from all users in the group, but then open it to those who are included in the exclusion list. For now, this option is available. Other security enhancements have also been introduced. By the way, Telegram has had this feature for a long time.

“We will continue to create new ways to protect your communications and keep them private and secure as private conversations.“Zuckerberg said.

New features include:

• leaving group chats without notification for all participants;
• ban on taking screenshots in certain chats;
• a list of who can see when the user is online.

It is not yet reported when these features will appear in the release. Earlier, WhatsApp introduced a new feature for group chats.

OnePlus held a conference dedicated to the announcement of the OnePlus Ace Pro smartphone, which the manufacturer calls “the new standard of productive mobile phones.”

The body thickness is 8.75 mm with a weight of 203.5 g. The phone is equipped with a 6.7-inch OLED screen, which occupies 93.4% of the body area. The bezel is only 1.47mm wide. Resolution is 1080 x 2412 pixels, 120Hz, one billion colors and HDR10+ high dynamic range.

OnePlus Ace Pro is equipped with the flagship Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 SoC, as well as overclocked LPDDR5+ and UFS 3.1 memory. RAM can be 12 or 16 GB. The phone has an efficient cooling system.

OnePlus Ace Pro received a built-in 4800 mAh battery with support for 150-watt charging. A full charge from 1 to 100% takes only 19 minutes. The battery should retain 80% battery capacity after 4 years of use.

The main camera has a 50-megapixel Sony IMX766 sensor with optical image stabilization. In addition, the smartphone received an 8-megapixel “wide” and a macro camera. The front camera has a resolution of 16 megapixels. The OnePlus Ace Pro runs ColorOS 12.1, comes with Wi-Fi 6 and full-featured NFC.

Prices:

• 12/256 GB – $520;
• 16/256 GB – $560;
• 12/512 GB – $635.

Fundraising for a new Ulefone smartphone, the Armor 15, has been launched on the Kickstarter collective funding platform. A participant in the program will get the novelty for only $ 170 – inexpensive, given that the smartphone has the maximum degree of protection for consumer devices and also comes with wireless headphones, the case for which Armor 15 itself acts.

Ulefone Armor 15 is protected to IP68/IP69K (that is, the maximum for consumer devices) and meets the requirements of the US military standard MIL-STD-810G.

The capacity of the rechargeable battery was 6600 mAh, and the headphones stored inside the phone are also charged from it (they, by the way, work 5 hours on a single charge). Ulefone Armor 15 is equipped with a 5.45-inch screen, SoC MediaTek Helio G35, 6 GB of RAM and 128 GB of flash memory, a dual camera with sensors with a resolution of 13 and 2 MP, an NFC chip. The operating system is Android 12.