People ask me, an engineer, why I don’t have a smartphone.
This article will help to buttress my reason.
“researchers. EDITOR’S CHOICE Inside Technology: Clash of the Tech Titans - Mar-02 Analysis: Telecoms: Downwardly mobile - Feb-24 Chris Nuttall: Sweet taste of Honeycomb - Feb-24 HTC unveils six new Android devices - Feb-15 Operators hoping Nokia will avoid Android - Feb-07 Google’s Android overtakes Nokia’s Symbian - Jan-31
The apps “
Android 2.3 and higher builds are immune, and the XDA forums have a patch for lower builds if you can handle side loading.
These articles do nothing but cause hysteria where there is none.
There are over 100,000 Android apps by who knows how many developers.
3 developers were distributing malicious applications using a “root” exploit to do their dirty deeds (of which no one knows yet).
If you look at the names of the apps, half of them are in Chinese. The other half no one in their right mind would download anyway unless they are in the dungeon of the Android Marketplace.
Nonetheless, it will bring out the “THIS is why I don’t have a smartphone!” curmudgeons and the “iPhone has no viruses because we get what Steve tells us we can get” fanboys.
But I am kind of curious why you chose Announcements and Breaking News.
Is this really breaking news????
(And yes, that vid is not real and is made by the guy who does the Annoying Orange)