Virus for android phones?

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Seems depending on Apple to protect you is not a good option either since they theirselves have been known to use extremely questionable software in their phones.

As long as there's no backdoor to root my phone and place calls to pay numbers I really don't care. Which is why I'll never put my sim card in an Android.

[Vulcan]

As long as there's no backdoor to root my phone and place calls to pay numbers I really don't care. Which is why I'll never put my sim card in an Android.

How do you think jailbreaking works mrripley?

[MrRiplEy[H]]

How do you think jailbreaking works mrripley?

How do you think it works? A user deliberately manipulates the iOS kernel in order to gain root access. This process can not be done by malware, there's no way anything remotely that intrusive would ever get through the content control Also I'm in the understanding that jailbreaking cannot be done without an external process (i.e. hooking it up to a computer), no software running on the phone alone can root the phone.

On Android where user is free to download stuff from any and unrealiable source - it's highly likely to happen. Not to mention that even in the official marketplace Google is still slacking in content monitoring like the link I posted shows. 50 000 users had the chance to get infected before they caught the code. And this was just one sample.

The operator backdoors in Android make any 'jailbreaking' completely unnecessary - any malware has direct root access given as a present.

[Skilless]

Paranoid old people are funny.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Paranoid old people are funny.

Young and foolish with a 20 000 USD phone bill crying on media are even funnier. 

[Shuffler]

Young and foolish with a 20 000 USD phone bill crying on media are even funnier.  

I have an android (phone,internet,text) and a small monthly bill.


Maybe what happened to you was user induced.

[icepac]

That "tight content control" exercised by apple has allowed market share to be taken away by android phones.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

That "tight content control" exercised by apple has allowed market share to be taken away by android phones.

Lol no quite the contrary. Android market share is large only because there is no Google phone like iPhone. It's virtually all Apples competition combined under one label, the OS.

[Shuffler]

Lol no quite the contrary. Android market share is large only because there is no Google phone like iPhone. It's virtually all Apples competition combined under one label, the OS.

Android is android, apple is apple. The upstart Android has surpassed apple in a short time. That happens when one would rather tell the end user what he wants instead of giving him what he wants.

Personally I don't like the small screen on the apple phones. Some love them. Most would like a choice.

[Skilless]

I like that iTunes takes all of the worrywork out of my media; it decides for me what I can and cannot do with it.

[Ardy123]

So first you say linux is unsafe then you say you use linux because it's safe. Awesome!

Having professional experience in this realm, the problem is that Android is frequently modified by OEMs to meet carrier demands on insane deadlines. The core Android system is quite solid, if you get the code from the public Google repos. By the time the carries and the OEMs install all their 'cr*p' including carrier approved spyware (Carrier IQ, etc...), its a totally different beast. Remember, if the Carrier installed it its 'marketing research software', if someone else installed it, its 'spyware'. This is true for all the phones....

Worried about security, don't buy a device from a carrier, buy it unlocked direct from Google. As for the Google store, if its free, you should ask yourself why?

[ghi]

[MrRiplEy[H]]

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Classy

Shows the difference between Apple and Android. One is classy, the other is simply out of control.

[Skilless]

I think Apple is really showing it's class by using the US customs as their own personal jack booted thugs and their army of copyright lawyers to stop by any means necessary anyone who would dare to make a smart phone. 

Apple: Is it rectangular and have a touch screen?  Then they're infringing on our copyrights.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

I think Apple is really showing it's class by using the US customs as their own personal jack booted thugs and their army of copyright lawyers to stop by any means necessary anyone who would dare to make a smart phone. 

Apple: Is it rectangular and have a touch screen?  Then they're infringing on our copyrights.

What you mean to say is Google ripped off iPhone technology and Jobs went jackshinola over it. He was quoted saying something to the sort of spending every last cent of the 40 billion cash to sue Google.