This week on the Friday News Update:

- Honor announces a mid-range phone called the Honor 7X, with a 5.9” bezel-less screen, a dual camera, a 16nm octa-core processor and a fast fingerprint scanner
- EE announces a budget phone called the EE Hawk, with a Gorilla Glass all-glass design, which costs just £149
- Essential add a Portrait Mode to their camera app and say that a wireless charging dock and a new colour, Stellar Grey, are nearly ready for the Essential Phone
- Apple fixes a serious problem with macOS High Sierra that let anyone easily get root access to your Mac - and breaks file sharing in the process
- Google fixes a... slightly less serious problem in Android - the cheese was below the burger on the burger emoji whereas most other burger emojis feature the cheese above the burger
- Microsoft start selling the Samsung Galaxy Note 8
- Google send out a survey which suggests that they could be working on a YouTube Edition Android phone

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