As those of you reliant on your smartphones on a daily basis will surely vouch, battery life is probably the most important commodity. Although devices can offer a grand pallet of tasty features, without the power keeping the turbines ticking over, they're essentially useless.
Considering the ease in which data can be obtained and shared, it's not particularly hard to gather a person's contact details for purpose of spam, harassment, or cold calls.
As far as rooting an Android device goes, you'd be hard pushed to find an easier, and more passive method than simply installing an APK.
Although a smartphone is a gadget of convenience, when completely engrossed at desktop level, deviating your attention to your cellular device can sometimes be of excessive distraction.
Since Facebook can't always be relied upon to deliver with its mobile app, consumers frequently gravitate towards some of the many third-party offerings available at both the App and the Google Play Stores.
Whether Apple's App Store or Google's Play Store has the best selection of apps, it is still up for debate, but we are fairly confident in stating one thing: Android users have, without a doubt, access to the most crazy and indeed often least useful, selection of apps!
In what's turning out to be a busy couple of days for security threats, Lookout Mobile Security has discovered the Legacy Native (LeNa) malware of last fall is back, and capable of remotely gaining root access to Android devices.
Smartphones - especially high-end ones - are primary targets of ‘mobile snatchers’ today, and because of that it is really important that you take some precautionary measures to ensure that, ideally, your device doesn’t get snatched and if it does, your data doesn’t get misused.
Since killing off the Android Market in favor of the Play Store, Google has been pushing updates on an almost weekly basis in an attempt to plug any lingering issues.
Battery life on today’s smartphones is one of their least impressive features. While things have indeed improved in the past few months, heavy users are generally forced to carry a spare AC charger/battery wherever they go so that they don’t come across a situation where they need to make/take an important call and it turns out that their LTE smartphone is out of juice.
