LG's New Android Phone Has 2 Screens/Aj Dellinger

LG's New Android Phone Has 2 Screens

LG's New Android Phone Has 2 Screens

If there is one thing no one will ever accuse the LG V20 of being, it's boring.The field of Android phones is crowded with near identical devices, so LG has thrown every quirk imaginable into its newest handset to see what might stick.Perhaps the most noticeable oddity about the V20 is its dual screen setup.

BlackBerry's 2016 Android Phone Lineup REVEALED: The BlackBerry DTEK50 Is Just The Beginning

BlackBerry's 2016 Android Phone Lineup REVEALED: The BlackBerry DTEK50 Is Just The Beginning

Samsung Patent Showcases Hybrid Smartphone Running Android And Windows Phone Simultaneously

Samsung Patent Showcases Hybrid Smartphone Running Android And Windows Phone Simultaneously

There's probably isn't a huge crowd of smartphone shoppers fretting over the decision to go with Android or Windows Phone , but for those pondering the two platforms, Samsung may one day make the choice easy—go with both!That's the idea behind a patent application Samsung filed in South Korea, one that describes a phone running both OSes at the same time.Samsung's approach is different than that of a dual-booting solution.What Samsung conceived is a much slicker solution in which switching between Windows Phone and Android would be similar to bouncing around different open apps like you can already do in Samsung's Multi Window feature for its Galaxy handsets.According to the patent filing, Android and Windows Phone would occupy two separate windows.

LG Unveils the First Phone to Ship With Google's New Android

LG Unveils the First Phone to Ship With Google's New Android

LG is unveiling the first phone to ship with Google's new Android Nougat software, in hopes of appealing to people who like to take and share photos and video.The new V20 phone comes on the eve of a San Francisco event where Apple is expected to launch new iPhones.Nougat is already available as a free upgrade on some Google phones under the Nexus brand.

Rogue Android App Can Be Used to Reveal Phone Owner's Real Identity

Rogue Android App Can Be Used to Reveal Phone Owner's Real Identity

Belgian security researcher Arne Swinnen has helped Google fix a security issue in Android 7 that in the previous OS versions allowed attackers to infer enough data about the device and its apps to determine the device's real owner.Swinnen, a known and prodigious contributor to Facebook's bug bounty programs, discovered a problem with the file and folder permissions system used to limit access to sensitive data stored inside app folders on Android devices.The researcher says that an attacker (represented by a rogue app installed on the device) could use Android commands to change their app's currently working directory to another app's folder.