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paranoid android ?

Well, with the Chrome already coming close to the expectations if not meeting it, Google (T-Mobile) is going to unveil the next trick up its sleeve in the form of its Android Platform. The phone is called ‘Dream’ manufactured by HTC (a Taiwanese manufacturer), and is expected to come out next week according to here. To keep up with the competition, and frankly, even to be seriously considered, T-Mobile has increased its (previously non-existent) 3G coverage to 27 markets now.

It’s interesting that the Android phone is coming at a juncture when the IPhone seems to have captured such a huge section of the consumer market, and with most of the business market being held by Research in Motion. Also, it seems to be a pain to switch to T-Mobile with the maximum market share belonging to AT&T (27.1%) and Verizon (26.3%).

Peronally, I wish the phone is a complete knockout as I still haven’t brought the IPhone. However, with the rumor on the street telling that it is a developers phone, I don’t know how slick it’ll be. Not my biggest concern though … :)

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4 Responses to “paranoid android ?”

  • 1
    Amol Dharap
    September 19th, 2008 04:24

    Have u seen http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1843 ?

  • 2
    Manoj
    September 19th, 2008 07:31

    I had heard of that before, and thought of it as a no-brainer then and not worth thinking too much about. Almost all browsers have the option of saving by default to a certain location, without prompting. You still need 2 clicks, the “download” and the “run”. Agreed that you could potentially just click on run when the file appears as download, but that’s the same everywhere. Just because it’s more easy to do things in Chrome probably makes it a little easier to be exposed to a situation like this. I won’t call this a security vulnerability … you could still potentially download something automatically to your desktop (with the option set) and execute that malware. Nothing new about that …

  • 3
    Ashwin
    September 19th, 2008 22:22

    I maintain….
    The cell phone was made for 2 reasons –
    1. talk
    2. poplulation control (I am sure you read the front page TOI article about 4 years back…:D)

    Anything above and beyond that is an unecessary complication of the system. Ah, if only it wasnt for these materialistic pleasures of life…:D

  • 4
    Manoj
    September 20th, 2008 10:05

    Cell phone = thing of the past
    Mobile/Internet communications device = new fad … :P

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