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One of our favorite hacking gadgets, the Flipper Zero<\/a>, 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<\/a> that technically arrived with a previous update. While many of the features aren\u2019t technically new, the entire package should make this gadget feel like a supercharged version of its former self.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n One of the most notable updates since launch solves one of the developers\u2019 biggest problems: the device\u2019s 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 year, the device added an app store<\/a> and let you run new apps from the microSD card instead. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n JavaScript is now supported, so coding your own apps could be easier. The NFC subsystem has been rewritten from the ground up, supports more card types, and can read cards faster. Transferring data via Bluetooth with Android devices is also faster, and the speed of firmware updates has increased by 40 percent, according to the developers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n