Android developer Trevor Eckhart reported that he found a hidden software on several EVO HTC devices. The software, called Carrier IQ, tracked the location of the phone, what keys were pressed, which Web pages were visited, when calls were placed, and other information on how the device is used and when.
Read MoreGalaxy Nexus, which is the first dual-core Samsung phone with Google's Ice Cream Sandwich version of
Android, has gone on sale in the United Kingdom.
Among the best Ice Cream Sandwich features
are face recognition to unlock the phone, voice typing that
transcribes speech to text as you talk and Android beam to exchange Web
addresses.
The mobile blog SoyaCincau posted a video of the Face Unlock feature tricked by someone who simply shows the Galaxy Nexus running Android 4.0 a photo of the face that have been used to set up the locking mechanism. According to the blog SoyaCincau holding a digital photo of its owner that is displayed on another phone in front of the Galaxy Nexus can unlock it.
Read MoreMark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Linux, plans to take its Linux desktop to all computing devices, including smartphones, tablets, and smart TVs. A fully-baked and ready to go Ubuntu for all devices is expected to appear in April 2014 but probably we would see the first tablets and smartphones with ARM processors in the second quarter of 2012.
Read MoreIn Technology Group has seemingly dedicated itself to merging the Windows PC experience with the smartphone. They started with phones running Windows XP, and by earlier this year, ITG's XPPhone was available with Windows 7. Now a Chinese company says that a far slimmer, lighter, and energy efficient XPPhone 2 will be released and it will run both Windows 7 and the PC version of Windows 8 (once it's released).
Read MoreAt the Nokia World show the company introduced its first Windows phone handset, the Nokia Lumia 800 and Lumia 710. One of the best features of Lumia 800 is the durable polycarbonate plastic body with a curved 3.7-inch ClearBack AMOLED (480x800 pixels) touch screen. It's powered by a 1.4GHz Qualcomm MSM8255 processor and has 16GB of internal memory. Users will also be given 25GB of free storage through Microsoft's cloud-based SkyDrive service.
Read MoreThe Google Galaxy Nexus was the first device to offer Android 4.0, but many are concerned about whether or not their current Android devices will get the Ice Cream Sandwich. Learn what some of the larger players have to say about their upgrade plans.
Read MoreSamsung and Google unveiled Galaxy Nexus, which is the first phone designed for the latest release of Android 4.0, also known as Ice Cream Sandwich. With this phone that fits in the palm of your hand you can beam a video with a single tap or unlock a device with only a smile.
Read MoreWindows Phone 7.5 is now officially ready to get pushed to existing devices, and in a big way. Taking lessons Microsoft learned from the update debacle that was NoDo, the company's eager to do a much more efficient job of rolling out its latest revamp.
Read MoreDeveloper framework Sencha released a major update to its platform last week that further enhances its HTML5 capabilities and provides easy wrappers to package Web applications into native form for Android and iOS. It is a bulky update to Sencha and is representative of how the tools of the mobile developer industry need to keep pace with innovation.
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