Yesterday I was reading PC World news, and I stumbled across this article:
by Melania Pinola (read the article here)
I read it, and at first I though it was kind of a joke directed to Apple, until I realized it was true. I read it twice, 'coz I wasn't really sure about it, then I googled around to check the Apple "experts" declaration.
The answers is: depends. Well, rooting your phone means getting root level privileges on your android phone. Root is THE user on your droid system, the one who can change system setting, and possibly make your phone stop working ;)
In last months on the App Stores (oops... hope Apple didn't mind I used that copyrighted/patented/reserved word!) the Antivirus apps for Android are proliferating.
Everyone wants it, just to install and then recognize it slow down so much his droid to make it far less usable than before. But droids really need antivirus?
Today I got a phone call from work (I'm in holiday). It seemed no one was able to run the sorveillance software and export a recording (bah...). The nice part was that I was finally able to test my phone for what it was bought for - and never managed to do with WM6 on it - remote access our servers from it.
I finally got a Galaxy Tab 7" and start playing with it. It's a nice tab, small enough to be handled using one hand, and big enough to easily browse web pages or access servers over RDP. But...