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Android app requires rooted phone to offer full protection
Rating: Actually it’s all built into Avast!’s Mobile Security app
Over a year ago, GoMo News bothered to research how an ordinary person could ‘root’ an Android handset. (See ‘How to migrate an Android handset to Froyo’). The purpose of ‘rooting’ the handset is to enable you to change bits of the handset’s OS. Normally, it’s used for updating the OS to a new version – say going from Gingerbread (2.3) to Ice Cream Sandwich (v 4.0). We’ve accidentally discovered that ‘rooting’ also serves a useful purpose for data security applications. This revelation was made when installing Avast! Software’s Mobile Security app on our test Motorola Razr. You can find the Avast! app on the Android Market here. Continue reading
Posted in Mobile applications, android
Tagged android, Avast, Gingerbread 2.3, Ice Cream Sandwich v 4.0, mobile security, Motorola, Razr, root
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Redmond warns against ‘rooting / jailbreaking’ WP7
Rating: Workarounds could brick your handset
There’s good news for to customers of O2 and SFR in Europe who own Microsoft Windows Phone 7 [WP7] handsets. The Redmond-based company has started to deliver the March ‘copy and paste’ (NoDo) update to its customers now [April]. And Telstra customers in Australia are currently receiving the February update. Old habits die hard with Microsoft being tardy as usual. Meanwhile, Eric Hautala, general manager of customer experience engineering with Microsoft, has warned frustrated WP7 against ‘tinkering’ with their handsets by installing ‘homebrew’ ‘workarounds’. There’s a chance you could end up ‘bricking’ the handset – ie making it malfunction totally. Continue reading
Posted in Microsoft, Mobile Devices, Mobile OS, SFR, android, o2
Tagged 02, 800705B4, 80180080, android, Blue Screen, bricking, Eric Hautala, iOS, jailbreaking, NoDo, omnia, root, Samsung, SFR, Support Tool, telstra, The Inquirer, windows phone 7, Wireless Federation, WP7
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We like Motorola’s Motoblur and Moto Phone Portal
Rating: Useful software to go with an Android handset
Most news sites review a handset by telling you what tin is inside the box; give you a brief description of its capabilities and may mention what software is preloaded. To break this mould, GoMo News thought it would describe what it has been like migrating from an Android handset updates to2.1 Éclair handset over to another 2.1 device with 2.1 already installed. Both handset are from Motorola – the Dext and the Defy respectively. The exercise showed how useful the Motoblur software is in real life. It also highlighted the fact that Motorola really ought to push the existence of its Moto Phone Portal software a bit more vigorously. Continue reading
Posted in Mobile Devices, Mobile OS, Mobile applications, Motorola
Tagged 2.1, Éclair, DEFY, dext, Media Link, Moto Phone Portal, motoblur, Motorola, root
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Motorola triggers Dext user backlash
Rating: Never mind the unlockers, here come the Android rooters
Motorola may have accidentally triggered a major backlash from its European customers over a rumoured decision concerning Android upgrades. The policy affects those who own Motorola’s Dext handsets and who appear doomed to be stuck at version 1.5 of the OS. The situation could easily be disbursed, save for the fact that in North America those who own a virtually identical handset, the Cliq, are being promised the chance to upgrade to Version 2.1 (one short of a Froyo). The move could well send Dext owners into the hands of rooters. Continue reading
