Some cheap Android phones are being sold with preinstalled malware

collected by :Maya Tony

Preinstalled malware is probably not something you signed up for the time you decided to purchase an affordable Android device. that means they're even less equipped to understand and handle malware than tech-savvy users that continue might fall for malware scams despite their experience. Upstream says that a number of cheap Android phones that are purveyed in markets including Brazil, Egypt, Myanmar, and South Africa contain malware that can robber consumer data and even money. Furthermore, it identified GMobi as the advertising firm in Taiwan that is gathering consumer data from the devices purveyed in these emerging markets. And GMobi software is preinstalled on devices made by a dozen Android makers including well-known brands like Huawei, Xiaomi, and Blu.

navigation bar: Twitter will move position of navigation bar on Android phones

SAN FRANCISCO: Micro-blogging site Twitter is changing the location of its navigation bar and bringing it at the bottom of the app interface in the new update for Android devices. "We're launching a new bottom navigation bar on Twitter for Android. by this update, you'll be able to quickly navigate between all of your tabs by ease!" Twitter backing tweeted on Saturday.Twitter may be bringing in this change to make the app more accessible and to enable quicker navigation between other tabs, Android Headline reported.The bottom bar, however would not allow users to swipe from one tab to the next, but they would have to click on a tab to access it.Apart from the location change, the bar looks and works extremely much the same as it did before by the same four primary tabs in effect -- Home, Search/Explore, Notifications and Messages.Twitter is rolling out this update from the server side this time instead of an app update out of Google Play Store , the report added.The update alextremely incorporates minor updates like the line that used to denote that tab a consumer is on, has been removed but the tab icon would continue be highlighted in the same method and color as it was before.

Think Android phones are all the same? Here are 8 that do things differently

As it stated in This is a list of eight phones available now or in the near future that are paving their own method in the phone market. It going to have flagship specs, a ton of blockchain-linked features, and a 2nd monitor that slides up from the back. However, Red Hollywood Studios looks determine to take things one step further by its Red Hydrogen One phone, currently determine for launch in August this year. For those that like to type: BlackBerry KEY2BlackBerry is continue pretty much the only OEM making phones by physical keyboards. The Android-powered Samsung W2018 features a Snapdragon 835 chipset, 6GB of RAM, 64GB storage, and was the first Samsung device to feature dual aperture, before even the Samsung Galaxy S9.

Microsoft to launch Android powered phones soon: Microsoft representative reveals

However, according to a Microsoft Store rep, the company is currently working on a new phone that going to be powered by Google's Android operating system. Microsoft Android phone to Launch This Year? Could a Microsoft Android phone be Successful? As many of you might be aware, Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system failed to achieve much popularity during the period that it was alive. As by any manufacturer, the success of the Microsoft Android phone going to depend on how good the device is as an overall package.