iPhones dominate AT&T Q3 sales, but Android is catching up

For a long time, there was no real challenger to the iPhone’s smartphone dominance. That all changed after Android started getting traction and the devices running the OS started to sell in droves. AT&T was the first of the iPhone carriers in the US and the iPhone still continues to be the most common smartphone sold on the network.

AT&T has released the results for Q3 and talks a bit about the iPhone and Android devices in with the usual profit numbers. AT&T notes that the iPhone was its most popular smartphone with 2.7 million activations during the quarter. That counts up to more activations than all other devices combines. However, AT&T also notes that the iPhone and Android together were almost half of its total 4.8 million smartphones sold.
Android is also catching up to the iPhone quickly on the network with sales of the Android devices on the network nearly doubling year over year. AT&T postpaid customers are now using more smartphones than dumb phones for the first time. AT&T reports a total of 68.6 million postpaid subscribers and 52.6% of that number is smartphone users. In the same quarter last year, only 39.1% of all users on the network were rocking smartphones.
[via SlashGear]

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Ballmer says you need to be a computer scientist to use Android

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is at it again with wild comments about the competitors of Windows Phone reports Telegraph.co.uk. Ballmer was blasting Android at the Web 2.0 summit in San Francisco recently claiming that the OS was difficult to use. Ballmer went so far as to say that you needed to be a computer scientist just to use Android.

Ballmer said, “You don’t need to be a computer scientist to use a Windows phone and you do to use and Android phone…It is hard for me to be excited about the Android phones.”

While Ballmer blasts Android for usability, he is more forgiving on the iPhone and Apple in general calling the company “a good competitor” and especially praising the new Siri assistant feature on the iPhone 4S. Despite heaping a bit of praise on Apple, Ballmer still maintains that the Windows Phones are better than both Android and iPhone offerings.
He claims that Windows Phone is much better than the competition at putting the user’s information front and center. According to Ballmer with Windows Phone, you don’t have to go through icons and pages to find the information users want.

“Both [an iPhone and a Windows phone] are going to feel very good in your hand and both going to look very beautiful physically…. but when you grab a Windows phone and use it… your information is front and centre… and you don’t have to scroll through seas of icons and blah blah blah.”
“A Windows phone gets things done.”

[via SlashGear]

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Lynx receiver brings you Sirius XM by way of Android

One of the wonderful things about Android is that its open-source nature allows it to be put to all sorts of uses. Already it powers phones, tablets, e-readers, netbooks, at least a couple of actual robots, and we’ve got one unconfirmed report of a toaster. While there’s already a few in-dash car stereos running Android, Sirius XM’s upcoming Lynx receiver should allow you to add some Google-flavored tunes to your car without a major installation. Best Buy let the unannounced satellite radio receiver slip on its website last weekend.

For $249.99, you’ll get a touchscreen receiver running an unspecified version of Android, a battery good for 30 hours of cord-free tunes and a dashboard mounting kit. The Lynx includes a MicroSD slot that all so you to bring your own music along when you get tired of The 40s on 4. Built-in wireless is mentioned but not specified, so I’d guess it’s Bluetooth with A2DP for streaming to an existing audio system. Google apps and the Android Market are a definite no for something with this much modification.
Best Buy yanked the product listing before we could take a more in-depth gander, but the mere fact that a page was prepared means we’ll probably be seeing the Lynx on store shelves before Christmas. Details like the specific OEM partner, on-board storage or recording capabilities are sadly unavailable. With all the modding news that constantly comes out of the Android world, I can’t help but wonder what a root method, a little imagination and a lot of free time could do for this satellite radio player.

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iOS 5 Functionality has Already Existed on Android

We’ve seen what a strong developer following has done for both Apple iOS and Google Android; it both promotes/protects the future of its existence and it makes the operating systems resilient to our fast paced technological society. Most importantly, it helps us realize that one company does not make a product great – and that it’s only as great as the innovative pioneers that join their bandwagon. Though iOS 5 incorporates a wide variety of features, can we really consider them all new?

The one feature in iOS 5 I’ve found most amazing thus far has been Siri Voice Integration. And frankly at this point in time, any other voice interpretation service is left in the dust. With Siri, there is no “pre-defined” way of requesting a task, it simply understands. Pre-iOS 5, Android dominated iOS in voice commands from the very intuitive Vlingo application to the pre-installed Voice Search and Google Car Home applications. Apple’s innovation through Siri’s “fuzzy logic” will make Android stronger – and soon I’m sure.

Unfortunately, this appears to be the only new material that iOS 5 has really brought to the table. iMessage allows iOS 5  users to message one another over their carriers network or WiFi, a feature Google Talk has had since its first debut on the T-Mobile G1 – the first Android device. Yes, its great to include an application such as iMessage, but I can’t see it fairing well against modern SMS texting, Facebook Messenger, or even Google Voice for iOS.
Newsstand is a new application in iOS that collects one’s magazine subscriptions from the App Store. Is this really a new feature? If I buy a subscription from Nook for Android isn’t it doing essentially the same thing? Advertising relatively old functionality in technology as brand new seems silly to me. Along the same lines, “Reminders” was also introduced; a helpful tool that can be compared to Android’s Google Calendar and Jorte. Both released well before even the iPhone 4.
Yes, iOS 5 integrates Twitter right into the OS. This is a great feature, but can also be accomplished through a simple download of the official Twitter app or TweetCaster in the Android Market. When Apple introduced the App Store, they knew relying on developers to produce amazing programs would be a great success. In iOS 5 it seems they are trying to rely less on these third-party applications and tie their functionality straight into their own pre-installed software. What happens when a crafty developer pushes an amazing app to the App Store that tops Apple’s standards? In the end, users will always choose what works best. This is the ideology that the Android OS has built its empire upon.
And don’t forget, we will be live in Hong Kong, China for the Google/Samsung unveiling of the newest device to run Android Ice Cream Sandwich. Stay tuned-in 10PM EST on October 19th!

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Screencast for Android updated, record right off your screen now with Audio

Surely this isn’t the first time we’ve mentioned this app. It is one thing to take a screenshot of what is being displayed on your Android device, but being able to record full video in perfect quality as you flip through homescreens, demo a new game or anything else your heart desires is what we have here. We recently posted a review of Screencast and screen recorder and our only complaint was we didn’t have audio, that all changes today as they’ve just updated and have introduced audio recording to the application.

Obviously this application will require you to be rooted, but essentially you can record everything you do on your phone right from this application with full 25 fps and high resolution quality. Then play it back and share it with whoever you’d like. We ran it a few times during our initial review and demo linked to above and while it was a bit laggy at times and occasionally had a graphics glitch, the latest updates have fixed all that. Developers can use this to demo their newest game and post the video preview in the market and more, the possibilities with this application are up to you. Now we can record video and explain things as you go or capture the game and applications audio making this an all in one solution. Check out our early video demo below:
ScreenCast screen recording demo (no audio)




The developers of ScreenCast seem to be very actively updating this app and we only expect more great things to come. Many users requested being able to also record audio and today’s update brought just that — a toggle for audio recording at the same time and it works great and sounds perfect, no hissing or buzzing. The next update according to developers is the option to stream your video live as you record, that would be awesome. For now head down to the Android market and give this a try by clicking here.
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Acer founder: Android will beat Apple

Taipei, Oct. 14, 2011 (CENS)--Stan Shih, the founder of Acer Inc., one of the world’s top five PC suppliers, stated in an interview with Taiwan’s Chinese-language United Daily News that consistently tapping synergies of Wintel (Windows plus Intel) and Google on innovation, Android leaguers are likely to outdo Apple Inc. in the near future.

Buoyed by PC and smartphone suppliers, Google’s Android has become one of the world’s most used mobile operating systems, regarded as the answer to Apple’s incursion into the global market for PCDs (portable communication devices).

Shih stressed that Intel’s alliance with Google is especially the good news to Android leaguers, as the two high-tech giants will jointly come up with better solutions to optimizing Android’s speed and performance. In the future, Shin opines, Android-powered, Atom processor-built PCDs will likely outsell Apple’s products to lead PC development.

Shih also commented that the emergence of Ultrabook PC may be a transient boom, which is likely to temporarily revive the PC industry in the short term, but won’t secure insiders a lifetime of growth. Thus, he said, “The PC industry needs to make more destructive innovations happen to draw consumers back.”

On the post-PC era, Shih indicated that the arrival of the post-PC era doesn’t mean that PC would become the past tense for the industry, but would continue to exist in diverse forms (like tablets and smartphones) in the future. Therefore, Shih furthered, contract manufacturers of parts and components, such as display panels and IC chipsets, will keep playing key part in the global supply chain of PCs, whose production capabilities and capacity will be increasingly needed by PCD customers. In other words, the PC industry’s influence will be enhanced in the future, despite the coming post-PC era, he concluded.

Finally, Shih also pointed out that development of Taiwan’s software industry will hinge on concerted efforts by the government and enterprises to create a sizeable domestic market, talents and a positive environment on the island, saying that success of the U.S.’s software industry is a living example to Taiwan.

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Survey: most Android owners aren’t interested in the iPhone 4S

Apple’s iPhone 5 iPhone 4S releases today, and as usual it’s gobbled up its fair share of the tech buzz ever since its announcement. But according to a recent survey by Retrevo, most of the consumer interest is coming from existing iPhone users, not the ever-expanding Android userbase. According to the 1,300 responders, just 12% of Android users are planning on purchasing a new iPhone.

That’s a steep decline from current Apple users. 44% of iPhone 3 and 3GS owners said they’d buy the new phone, while a surprising 42% of iPhone 4 owners said they’d spring for the modest upgrade. Keep in mind, nearly all iPhone 4 owners will be paying full price for the 4S, since they’re at most about 16 months into a 24 month cellular contract. What’s even more surprising is that only 24% of Blackberry users said they’d buy a new iPhone, despite RIM positively bleeding marketshare in the last few months – no points for guessing where the rest are probably going.
In other news, the iPhone 4S’s lack of true 4G connections is a major disappointment. Over 70% of smartphone owners and 50% of iPhone owners lamented the lack of LTE in the new model. The iPhone 4S will feature an HSPA+ radio, achieving speeds which AT&T has been advertising as “4G”, but it won’t be able to connect to the faster LTE network on Verizon or AT&T. That’s a pretty typical move for Apple – remember that the original iPhone launched with EDGE amidst a sea of 3G smartphones and featurephones.
There’s no denying that the iPhone 4S will sell a boatload of units, but as with previous generations, it’s mostly selling to the Apple faithful. Expect a larger turnaround when the true iPhone 5 appears next year – of course, by then Android phones will be even further ahead in specifications and market share.
[via eWeek]

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Google: 190m Android phones in circulation today

Google announced its overall financial figures last night, giving us a few snippets of news about how well Android has been contributing to the business. Claiming that there are now 190 million Android devices out there around the world today, Larry Page, Google’s CEO, also said that Android contributed a staggering $2.25bn to Google’s bottom line in ad revenues.
That’s a lot of people accidentally clicking on banner ads, eh? The last time Google spoke on device numbers was back in July, when it said 130m Android devices were out there. Here’s more of Larry:

The growth of Android is mind-boggling too. Over 190m devices have now been activated globally. I’m super-excited about the soon-to-be released new version of Android called Ice Cream Sandwich, that’s right, Ice Cream Sandwich. You won’t believe what we manage to get done in this release

Looking forward to it, Larry!

And that’s the Ice Cream Sandwich Android 4.0 update Larry has no doubt been testing himself for several months, which is now scheduled to be launched, or at least demonstrated by Samsung and Google, on October 19th.
Link via the Guardian.

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Google’s Android team joins the rest of us on Twitter

If you’re reading this and you’re even a casual user of Twitter, you probably want to hit this link up right away. Google’s Android development team has just created its own Twitter account, @Android. Just an hour after their first message, they’ve already over 4,000 followers – and it’s growing fast.

Google’s most impressive feat of the day might have been securing that short and sweet Twitter handle – try signing up for a new account today and getting a snappy username. Twitter has been known to work with celebrities and companies for marketing purposes, and since Google’s as big as it gets in the tech world, we’re sure they came to some kind of amicable arrangement. The @Android avatar is currently the official Ice Cream Sandwich statue chilling out on the Google Campus.
The account only has two tweets at the moment, but you can bet they’ll be highlighting the latest and greatest in the Android world soon enough. For a more in-depth look at the inner workings of the Android dev team, be sure to check out the official Android Developers Blog. Oh, and while you’re at it, add Android Community as well – our Twitter handle is almost as good as the official one: @Androids.

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Microsoft signs more Android patent agreements, this time with Quanta

Microsoft is at it again, wasting no time signing deals covering royalties and patent agreements from everyone involved in the Android OEM business as of late. The latest to fall victim this time around is Quanta Computers. The name might not be widely known but Quanta is a huge manufacturer of electronic devices. They built the BlackBerry Playbook, the Kindle Fire, and have contracts with companies such as HP, Apple, Dell, Gateway, Lenovo, Sony and many others. Today have signed patent royalty agreements with Microsoft over any Android or Chrome products they intent to build now, and in the future.

For those unfamiliar with the situation, Microsoft has a wide array of patents regarding all sorts of mobile and computational devices, and software. All Android and Chrome based devices are susceptible to infringe on these patents and to cover their bases OEM’s have been forced into signing agreements with Microsoft. There is much more to this story but that is gist of it. This is nothing new and Microsoft has been banking around $5 USD from every HTC Android device sold, that deal alone and net them more profit than Windows Phone 7 as a whole lately. Velocity Micro, Onyko and many others have signed similar deals including another big name, Samsung.

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Siri alternatives for Android users

The only thing that was major about the unveiling of the iPhone 4S was the new Siri voice assistant service. All the other stuff about the iPhone 4S was just not that interesting. If you are on an Android phone and like the idea of Siri, several apps out there will give you similar features right now. Extremetech ran down the top five Android apps that are like Siri, see what you think of their choices.

The first is Vlingo Virtual Assistant, which is a free app with ads or $2 to remove the ads. It has more than a million downloads and the app is one of the best by some accounts. You can voice dial with the app, send texts, and emails as well as conduct local search. Sonalight Text by Voice is the next app and it will cost you $20 per year. It lets you text using your voice and reads them back to you too.
Google Voice Search/actions is the next on the list and it is free. You can access this by clicking the mic button on the keyboard. The fourth choice is Edwin, Speech-to-Speech. This gives you voice control for different features and you can ask it odd questions since it works with Wolfram Alpha. It is free as well. The last is Speaktoit Assistant, also free. This app is like Vlingo in functionality and has an avatar on screen you talk to.
[via ExtremeTech]

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A chocolate Android phone that won’t melt in your pocket

Sharp’s upcoming Q-Pod Android phone is aimed right at the rich, delicious center of the novelty market. The golden-colored phone’s back, front and the user interface inside all look as if they’re covered in half-melted chocolate, for some reason. It even comes with its own “Chocobed”, a charging dock that looks like a fancy chocolate box.


Perhaps the most surprising thing about the Q-Pod is that it also has some pretty solid specs. Android 2.3 runs on a 1GHz Snapdragon processor (mmm, chocolate and Gingerbread!) with 512MB of RAM. Unlike its real-world sugary counterpart, the housing of the phone is water-resistant, and the 8-megapixel rear camera should satisfy the pickiest of shooters. The 3.7-inch screen has a sharp 960 x 540 resolution – considerably higher than similar screens on US and European phones.

Carrier NTT DoCoMo isn’t saying how much the Q-Pod will cost, but with a limited run of 3000 units it won’t be cheap – and that’s before you buy a plane ticket to Japan to pick one up. If your heart is set on this unique device, better call you travel agent quick – the Sharp Q-Pod goes on sale October 18th. Just don’t make any calls before dinner or you’ll spoil your appetite. For more strangely themed Japanese handsets, check out the official Disney Android phone.

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Premium phone number scams and malware on the rise, says Symantec

Android is taking the world by storm, and unfortunately, that means that scammers and hackers are coming along for the ride. Security firm Symantec released new research today detailing the biggest threats faced by Android users, and while most of it is familiar information, there are some fiendishly innovative new forms of malware and other malicious apps that users should be aware of. Chief among them is the “Premium rate number billing scam”.

It works like this: users download an app from an untrusted source and manually install it on their Android phone. The phone then covertly calls or texts a premium number that’s been specially created for the app. The premium number then uses established carrier billing methods to charge customers’ phone bills directly, and they’re none the wiser until the billing period is up. For an example of this scheme, check out the malicious QR codes discovered in September.
More traditional forms of malware are on the rise, too, including the kinds of junk you cleared off your grandmother’s Pentium III. Familiar schemes like adware and search engine redirects are common, as are straight-up spyware that actively searches for usernames, passwords and banking information. Pay-per-download and pay-per-click apps are common, and are still the kind of thing that savvy users should avoid.
In most cases, you’ve still got to manually install apps from non-Android Market sources in order to compromise the security of your phone. As a security company Symantec has a vested interest in keeping people wary, but that doesn’t mean they’re wrong. Remember, on Android as on all operating systems, never install software from a source you don’t trust.

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T-Mobile Bobsled VoIP service comes to Android

T-Mobile has a VoIP service that has been in use on Facebook for a bit now. Bobsled has been extended to cover more platforms with the service on the iPhone and more important available on Android now as well. The service is used via a free app that you can download and the app allows calls to me made to Facebook contacts at this point.

The service does support free landline calls to the US, Canada and Puerto Rico via a browser apparently. To make those free browser calls you need to log in through the browser interface. The Android app will allow you to make Bobsled-to-Bobsled calls only. The good news is that with Android and iOS apps most of the people you know are probably callable using bobsled.
You can leave voice mails and the voice mails are sent to the contacts Facebook wall. You can record a voice message as well that will be penned to the wall. I wonder if that means everyone can read or hear the message you leave. If you want free calls, this will do the trick. The Android app can be grabbed on the Android Market now.
[via SlashGear]

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AT&T announces 5 new Android phones

AT&T extends its Android offering in a big way today with no less than five new Android phones for the nationwide network. The Motorola Atrix 2, the Samsung Captivate Glide and DoubleTime, the Pantech Pocket and the “AT&T” Avail. Most of the phones don’t have any availability info just yet, but the Atrix 2 will be in stored on Sunday, October 16th for $99.

The Atrix 2 is a modest update to the original Atrix 4G, which debuted early this year. The phone retains the 960 x 540 screen, sold-separately laptop dock, 1GHz processor and “4g” HSPA+ network connection. A big part of the improvement comes from an 8 megapixel camera with 1080p video recording and Android Gingerbread, though oddly, the on-board storage has been cut in half to 8GB. AT&T is trying to position the Atrix 2 as an enterprise phone with new encryption and remote-access features. The Atrix 2 will be available for purchase before the week is out on October 16th for $99 (just like the original) with a new 2-year contract.

Samsung’s QWERTY offerings are the Captivate Glide (which we spotted earlier) and budget-friendly DoubleTime. The former has a 4-inch 800x 480 Super AMOLED screen hiding its slide-out keyboard. Don’t let the messaging fool you, though – the 1GHz Tegra 2 processor and 1GB RAM will pack quite a punch. This one also has an 8 megapixel/1080p camera with a 1.3 megapixel front camera and access to HSPA+ 4G. The DoubleTime is a budget phone, and unlike the Gingerbread-loaded Captivate Glide, this little guy is saddled with Android 2.2 Froyo. The 600MHz phone’s screen is a small 3.2-inches, and the keyboard looks like it flips out Cliq-style.

Pantech’s latest smartphone, the Pocket, is an interesting one to say the least. It features a 4:3 800 x 600  screen, much wider in the horizontal axis than most android phones, and the screen stretches to four inches. AT&T claims this is for a better typing and browsing experience. Android 2.3 is included, as is “HD” video capture on the 5 megapixel camera. No mention is made of processor, storage or 4G, though we’ll probably be hearing a lot more soon.

Last but not least (“least” going to the DoubleTime up there), THe AT&T Avail is the latest addition to AT&T’s GoPhone prepaid service. OEM phone maker ZTE supplies this little guy with a 3.5-inch screen and a five megapixel camera. Once again, no more specifications or availability info is being made available at this time. Expect more information on the Atrix 2 and the other four new phones as their respective release dates near.

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ROU UI video teases a new experience for Android

The extremely wide array of options and customizations of Android is one of the many things that makes it great. From custom ROM’s, themes, and the ever popular home launchers. What we have here is a teaser video of the new and upcoming ROU UI Launcher for Android, it looks extremely polished and impressive. While currently still under development, it is coming soon and I can’t wait to check this out when finally released.


ROU Launcher is still under heavy development and is in the pre-alpha stages but hopefully we get a beta release sometime soon so we can give it a spin and check it out. After watching the teaser video (below) this looks to be extremely impressive and could give many popular launchers a run for their money. TeamROU can be followed on Twitter by clicking here, and they expect it to be fully ready by the end of the year. I’m hoping a beta APK gets released before that because this truly looks very nice.
ROU Launcher video





Are you ready for a brand new experience? That is the question they start the awesome video off with, then continue to show everyone why we should be both ready and excited for the new experience they have in store. We should be able to get all the details right from Twitter and they plan to have their own website up shortly. For now feel free to follow along at the XDA development thread for the latest news.
[via XDA Developers]

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My BMW remote control app coming to Android

Beamer-owning iPhone users have been able to play with all the nifty remote gadgets and tracking of the My BMW app for a little over a month now. Today news breaks that the app is on its way to the Android Market, so that you could – just as an example – unlock your $150,000 760Li with your HTC Hero. You know, if you wanted to. Right now the app is slated for an “Autumn” release.

The My BMW Remote app includes a host of features, the most interesting of which is the Vehicle Finder. This handy tool works just like one of the many parking locator apps you’ll find in the Market, but instead of setting a GPS point when you hop out of your car, it zones in on the GPS tracker in the car itself. The standard unlock, start and navigation functions are included, as well as the ability to remotely flash your BMW’s headlights and horn. This is known as the “scare the crap out of your friends who stuck you with designated driver duty” button.
The app ties in with the My BMW service, currently available as an upgrade for most models. The Bavarian automaker was tight-lipped as to a firm release date, but expect the app in the Android Market before year’s end. For those of you without a BMW, remember that you can add much of the same functionality to any car with the Viper SmartStart upgrade kit.
And look at that – the BMW folks are still rocking the Nexus One. You stay classy, Germany.

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Android continues to gain market share in U.S. while Blackberry OS continues to dwindle

comScore released their latest U.S. smartphone market share report, and as expected, Android continues to dominate. During the 3-month period ending in August, 2011, 84.5 million people owned smartphones in the U.S., a 10% increase from the previous 3-month period.
During the 3-month period ending in August, Android’s OS market share increased by 5 percentage points to control 43.7 percent of the smartphone market in the U.S. Apple came in second with 27.3 percent of U.S. smartphone market, an increase of 0.7 percent from the previous period.
While Apple and Google gained market share, RIM on the other hand didn’t do so good. Overall, Blackberry OS saw a decline in market share by dropping to 19.7 percent, a 5 percent decrease from the previous period where they controlled 24 percent.
Source: comScore

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Google Books for Android updated with better 7-inch tablet support, +1 feature

Google updated its Books app for Android smartphones recently with better support for more devices and a few new features. Most notably, the updated version works better on 7-inch Android tablets. There is also the ability to search through a book and add a +1 to a selection that the reader likes. The updated Google Books for Android is free and available in the Android Market now.
source: Android Market

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HTC and Android face new concerns over Android

An increasing number of security flaws in the Android open platform have led to experts raising questions over the security and privacy afforded by the Google OS, as some new security vulnerabilities have recently been discovered in several of Android models manufactured by HTC, adding to the increasing numbers of malwares and viruses for Android.
The latest versions of HTC’s proprietary Sense UI gives the applications which are installed on handsets including the Thunderbolt, Evo 3D and the Evo 4G access to the personal information of the users. According to an expert, this data includes phone numbers, text messages, user IDs, locations and more such details which result in a very serious security breach.
If the security exploit can access such sensitive data, this could have serious implications for privacy concerns among Android users, especially as mobile payments and banking are on a rise with smartphone users. The potential results of a data theft range from identity theft to unauthorized charges appearing on phone bills. The increase of these instances will also hamper the popularity and reputation of Android, both with the users and manufacturers.
With a 39% share of the smartphone market, Android smartphones currently lead in their category; however the closest rivals like Apple’s iPhone devices and Research In Motion’s BlackBerry smartphones are not much far behind. In other respects, more than 50% of the revenue which comes from the sales of mobile apps comes from Apples iOS based devices. If Android handsets create an impression of being unsecure for the users in such a competitive market, it may result in them moving towards the platforms such as iOS which are considered more secure.
However, it has been discovered that many users prefer Android over the Apple platform as it is an open OS, whereas the Apple iOS despite being more secure is also very limited. The same is true with the marketplace for Android apps, which despite being less secure than the Apple counterpart, provides users with more options to customize their devices.
While responding to the alleged security vulnerabilities, it was stated by HTC yesterday that they are currently investigating the authenticity of these claims, but they haven’t acknowledged the presence of any such flaws yet. These problems with the HTC handsets comprise the latest of the steadily increasing malware problems for Android over the last couple of months.

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