Archive for the ‘Cellphone’ Category
August 31st, 2010 | 
Author: The EVO 4G is a gorgeous phone. At 4.8 inches x 2.6 inches, it’s slightly taller and wider than other smartphones, but slim and easy to hold. The reason it’s bigger is also one of the main reasons it’s gorgeous—the 4.3 inch screen. The resolution is amazing, and the colors are true and rich. It’s just better in so many ways. Watching video, playing games, typing on the keyboard—all are easier with the larger screen.
This is the first 4G phone released in the United States, and it’s fast. Whether you’re downloading, uploading or surfing, you can do it up to ten times faster. This is the first WiMax phone, and its capabilities are very helpful. With WiFi available wherever you go, and Internet access for as many as eight devices, there’s no limit to what you can do. With the 1 GHz Snapdragon processor, any task you want to accomplish is faster.
The touchscreen is sensitive, and includes the buttons on the bottom. The virtual keyboard is very easy to use, thanks to the large screen, with much less chance of typos. A word-completion app is included which makes typing and texting much easier.
With two cameras, an 8 megapixel rear-facing camera, and a 1.3 megapixel front-facing camera, the photo opportunities are endless. A 2x LED flash is built-in to enhance shots taken in low-light conditions. When in camera mode, the EVO 4G is always adjusting focusing and computing light conditions, so when you push the button the photo is almost instant. No more missing the perfect shot due to camera delay.
The camcorder is equally perceptive, using HD technology for beautiful videos. You can stream videos live to friends, share them on YouTube, or save them to watch later on your flatscreen.
Sign in to a Google account, and be as productive as you wish. Your calendar entries and contacts are automatically synced with the EVO 4G. A calculator, desk clock, stock tracker, voice recorder, and news reader are also at hand. Quickoffice suite is included, too, so it’s easy to work with Microsoft documents.
Whether at home or traveling, the Google Maps and Sprint Navigation are very helpful apps. Find points of interest and restaurant reviews with Google Maps. Get traffic updates and turn-by-turn voice-guided directions with Sprint Navigation.
Music is easy to download, organize and play with this phone. The speakers are great, loud and clear. There’s also an FM radio app, although you will need a wired headset to utilize this option as there is no built-in antennae.
If social networking is your favorite leisure-time activity, there are several great apps for that. Peep is a Twitter utility, and FaceBook is included, too. FriendStream pulls photos and status updates from FaceBook and other social media together into a unified social networking option. The Qik program lets you capture and share video with friends either privately or through, FaceBook, YouTube or Twitter.
With it’s built-in kickstand, the EVO 4G is easy to use for watching video, movies, sports, or catching up on your soaps. This is a great phone, easy to use, great for entertainment or work. The call quality is excellent, even in high-noise situations.
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FaceTime is the video calling we’ve all been waiting for. iPhone4 to iPhone4, it only takes one tap of a button, even in the middle of a call, and you’re face to face with your lover, partner, or best friend. Or watching your granddaughter across the country playing dress-up. With two built-in cameras made for video calling, you can switch back and forth. One camera on the front is calibrated with the right focal length and depth of field for capturing your image while holding the phone in your hand, while the camera on the back can capture whatever it is you’re watching live and stream it to your caller. No screen name or special account needed; it’s all included.
Speaking of the cameras, the resolution of the graphics on iPhone 4—everything you see from pictures to e-mail to web pages—is crisp and incredibly detailed. Apple engineers have developed a smaller pixel, enabling them to cram 400% more pixels into the 3.5 inch screen, resulting in striking images, even at an angle. The advanced engineering produces a wider range of viewing angles than other LCDs, whether playing games or sharing video clips with a friend. This Retina display also has better contrast, giving the user whiter whites and blacker blacks for enhanced readability of text, including iBooks, as well as more striking pictures.
The touch-screen itself is harder and more durable than previous models, as well as more scratch resistant, due to a chemical strengthening process. A coating on the screen repels oils and keeps the screen cleaner.
Another great new feature of the iPhone4 is folders for your apps. Just like the folders on a computer, each folder holds several apps within it, meaning you can fit a whole lot more apps on your home screen. Simply touch and hold an app until it jiggles, the drag it into an app of the same category. For example, all your games can go in one folder while travel apps nestle in another. iPhone4 will give each folder a name based on its contents, although of course you can rename it anything you want. Using iTunes on your home computer, you can create folders and sync it to your iPhone4. Pretty cool.
The multitasker interface makes life easier by letting you switch quickly and conveniently between apps you’ve used recently, then jump right back to where you were. Listen to music or a ball game while surfing the web or checking e-mail. Receive a Skype call while other apps are running. GPS can continue to run, update your position, and give voice directions, turn by turn. The music automatically lowers while the GPS directions are given.
Virus Attacks on cellphones
An increase in virus attacks has been seen globally in October 2009, and it is only the beginning.
I warned about virus on the smart phones to become a growing problem as early as in May 2009. The attacks so far have been less malicious than just to prove that the cellphones are vulnerable to attacks through various ways.
The fact that the cellphones are less protected than the PC’s makes us believe what we see now is only a beginning.
You should begin to check your phone bill more closely now, as a virus has been found that makes your phone make a call on its own.
This is the first virus where we see some economic gain can be found, and we will talk about large money here. Just taking some few cents from each phone would make billions of dollars globally.
The hackers industry is on the loose, and they really want your money – and they are not shy of any methods to get it from you.
This is how you secure your cell phone
It is totally irresponsible of any company to not install anti-virus software on their cell phones, however it goes for all of us individual users as well.
So far there has been seen as no need to install any anti-virus software on the cellphones as attacks have not been around for so long. However, there are several things you can do yourself to avoid viruses on your phone.
Turn off the bluetooth function when you are not using this function on the phone. Virus can be transferred through the bluetooth system and the probability will increase that someone will take over your phone.
Do not open files or MMS that you did not expect to get or know about in forehand.
If you surf on the internet with your cellphone, avoid pages you are not sure of or have no knowledge about at all. You have to remember that you probably are better protected visiting the same pages with your PC since it has a anti-virus software protecting you. The Cellphone is just like a PC without the anti-virus software installed.
You can buy a anti-virus software through the internet, however you can not find any proven good anti-virus software for free for your cellphone yet.
E-mail is vulnerable in particular.
You would hardly think of surfing the internet or running a email program without using a anti-virus software on your PC. However, the smart phones have become like mini-computers with an operating system and add-on software which all are vulnerable to virus attacks.
It is just here the cyber criminals have found an interest to tap into. The hackers are no longer the boys in the boys room sitting and making codes just to prove themselves. They are now part of an industry funded by major criminal organizations able to create malicious software with almost no limits any longer.
However, the problem is that most of the users do not even know how to install antivirus software on the cellphone.
This is a problem that face lots of cellphone users today, and it just indicate that if you want to have a sophisticated cellphone, then you need to become a more sophisticated and knowledgeable user. However, one can say that sellers of the hardware should take some responsibility to enhance security of the use of their product.
You do not sell a car without complying to some safety regulations and measures. And this lead back to the regulators, that they have no regulations on how safe a cellphone should be to attacks, and maybe this will wake up the legislators to demand some safety measures a hardware should comply with before it is sold into the consumer market.
No smart cellphone to be sold without any proven anti-virus technology enabling the user to feel some safety when using this product. Yes, it will increase the price of the product, but i believe the users will be willing to take this cost given the dangers he or she can be exposed to with a cellphone that is not protected at all.
So far there have not been any complaints in major scale based on the latest calling virus found on the cellphones.
So far you are responsible for any use of your cellphone number and have to pay to the provider any costs associated with your cellphone number.
This is were the conflict starts, who should be responsible to provide a secure service – the users or the provider?
There are several examples of people complaining of phone bill exceeding what they thought they could have been responsible for. However, it is almost impossible for the users to win through with these cases, as collecting evidence could only be done by the provider itself, which is part in the case. The consumer is bound to have lost. It is here the legislators should put some demands to the providers to be able to protect their users. The providers says they are not responsible for the virus attacks and can not be held responsible. On the other hand they provide a service that is prone to virus attacks, and should feel morally obliged to protect their consumer and clients.
We are having a mighty challenge at hand in the near future as these virus attacks will become more frequent and have more stealth power than today.
There are examples produced in the last few weeks of cellphones been taken over and started producing cellphone calls by itself, without any interference of the owner of the phone and the subscription. These examples shows that the phone has begun systematically calling phone The calls varies from few seconds to several minutes and will give the users an extra cost of few cents to Euros or USD pr call.
One examples shown to the public is that one cellphone made around 100 calls during a period of 2 days. It was only found since the user wanted to check why the phone bill showed a discrepancy from previous bills he had.
The evidence that this was a virus, comes from the fact that the calls did not show up on the cellphone call log at all. There is no doubt at all, the cellphone has been taken over by a virus.
This is only the beginning as the cyber criminals have found out tht it is very easier to take over your phone than your PC, as most have antivirus protection on the PC’s but not on the cellphones.
They have also found a very easy way to take money from the users as these services will be directed and used towards special phone services owned by the cyber criminals and therefore will get easy income from the users.
You might ask now, how is the phone infected in the first place?
There are several ways this can happen, but the most probable is that the owner has received a MMS with a virus infected file that takes over the phone. You might levee you open a photo, but in the background the cellphone loads a virus to be hidden on your cellphone.
Another way this method can occur is through surfing on the internet as some web pages have photos with this type of malicious code attached to it.
Another way is through the bluetooth system as files can be loaded onto your cellphone without your knowledge at all.
It is very difficult to detect these attacks and the only measure so far, is to double check your phone bill and make sure you can account for the calls made there. If not, then
you should consider the fact that you have been attacked and there is a need to clean your cellphone to avoid further take over of the cell phone.
By taking over your phone, the cyber criminals will gain information on your cellphone which can be valuable, like email adresses and information inside these (sensitive information, passwords, number, accunts etc)
A virus can also make the phone to call expensive pay services abroad and the owners of these services can make a hugh amount of money on this.
Some viruses are just what it is – a virus to demonstrate a methodology or a way to contribute to the open source society amongst the cyber criminals to gain more knowledge about how to exploit your phone.
The best way to avoid attacks on your cellphone is of course to install a anti-virus program and not to open any files you have no idea were they come from.
The virus is not placed on the SIM card (as of yet not found that is), but is installed in the operating system on the phone itself.