Android – Iphone – Applications

So to kick off this week, we’re talking about the Samsung Gravity 2, and though it shows pretty well that Samsung loves nothing quite so much as it loves bizarre nicknames for their phones, it also shows that they can put out a nice one too when they really get going with it.

The Samsung Gravity 2 is a slider style cell phones that offers conference calling, speakerphone, Bluetooth connectivity, GPS, a USB port, a phone book with sufficient storage for a thousand contacts, both Yahoo and AOL IM instant messenger services (why there’s no love for the MSN instant messenger is a complete blank to me), mobile web, mobile email, Java application support, RSS feed support, a variety of digital video playback options, downloadable games, a two megapixel digital camera with 2.5 digital zoom and multi-shot capability as well as video recording, alarm clock, calculator, stopwatch, MP3 player and a battery capable of generating five and a half hours of talk time on a single charge.

I’m all about features when it comes to phones, and love nothing so much as sifting through menus to see what’s all on a phone, and I was certainly satisfied with the treasure hunt that the Samsung Gravity posed. However, it wasn’t all good news here, as the controls were small and tough to work with, which made what should have been a joyful experience a tough row to hoe, as it were.

But still, there’s more than enough value in the Samsung Gravity 2 to make it well worth your consideration if you’re in the market for something new without breaking the bank on an iPhone.

The Good

Lots of features

Solid battery life

Decent camera

The Bad

Tiny keys make use a headache

Score 7 / 10

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written by jdkjdj

Jabra has been doing some serious business with the Jabra Go 660 Bluetooth Headset not to mention varieties of the Stone.

It would appear that they are in the Bluetooth enabled in-car speakerphone business. It is pretty obvious what you would need this for. Darn that texting while driving that is happening.

In fact, my Source reveals that Jabra is teaming up with Zipcar to put these in their automobiles. If you aren’t familiar with Zipcar, it is an online rental car service in big cities.

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written by BroKen

When Apple addressed a congressional inquiry on privacy in July, the company claimed that it couldn’t actually track a particular iPhone in real time, as its transactions were anonymous and thoroughly randomized. Bucknell University network admin Eric Smith, however, theorizes that third-party application developers and advertisers may not have the same qualms, and could be linking your device to your name (and even your location) whenever they transmit data. Smith, a two-time DefCon wardriving champ, studied 57 top applications in the iTunes App Store to see what they sent out, and discovered that some fired off the iPhone’s UDID and personal details in plaintext (where they can ostensibly be intercepted), including those for Amazon, Chase Bank, Target and Sam’s Club, though a few were secured with SSL. Though UDIDs are routinely used by apps to store personal data and combat piracy, what Smith fears is that a database could be set up linking these UDIDs to GPS coordinates or GeoIP, giving nefarious individuals or organizations knowledge of where you are.

It’s a scary idea, but before you direct hate Apple’s way, it’s important to note that Cupertino’s not necessarily the one to blame. iOS is arguably the best at requiring users to opt-in to apps that perform GPS tracking; transmitting the UDID and account information together publicly is strictly against the rules; and we’d like to think that if users provide their personal information to an application developer in the first place, they’d understand what they’re doing. Of course, not all users monitor those things closely, and plaintext transmission of personal details is obviously a big no-no.

Smith’s piece opens and closes on the idea that Apple’s UDID is like the unique identifier of Intel’s Pentium III processor, which generated privacy concerns around the turn of the century, and we wonder if ths story might play out the same way — following government inquiries, Intel offered a software utility that let individuals manually disable their chip’s unique ID, and removed it from future CPUs.

Hacker claims third-party iPhone apps can freely transmit UDID, pose serious threat to privacy originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 03 Oct 2010 19:51:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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