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Flipper Zero 1.0 firmware update supercharges the hacking handheld

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DATE POSTED:September 10, 2024
A white handheld device with a dolphin on an orange scren. This little gadget keeps getting better and better. | Image: Flipper Devices Inc.

One of our favorite hacking gadgets, the Flipper Zero, received its first major firmware update today. It includes a bunch of features the developers have been working on stabilizing for the last three years, including a big battery life boost that technically arrived with a previous update. While many of the features aren’t technically new, the entire package should make this gadget feel like a supercharged version of its former self.

One of the most notable updates since launch solves one of the developers’ biggest problems: the device’s internal flash memory originally limited how many features they could add. In the past, new features were built into the firmware itself, but they eventually exceeded what the memory could handle. Last...

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