Tag archive for "sms"
Microsoft may like playing fun at the growing Android malware problem, but you’d have a hard time convincing most regular users that it’s an issue. That’s mostly down to admirable vigilance on Google’s part in keeping the Market clean of malware and Trojans, as evidenced by their latest sweep, wherein no less than 22 fake [...]
Well folks, it’s Friday, October 14th, and the day that so many have waited so long for has finally arrived. The world waits with breathless anticipation of news concerning their favorite mobile devices. The Google Voice team is implementing MMS into its text messaging services at long last. Reports of college kids rioting in the [...]
Most of you can probably agree that you have had to do this at one time or another on your Android phone. Get someone a phone number, send your friend or a co-worker someones number and wished there was an easy and simple way for this to happen. Well now you can with Share Contacts [...]
When the SMS bug for many Android devices was discovered, the internet went crazy. Texts were being sent to wrong people, and, if anything, it was a huge annoyance. Now users are getting a bit of a relief with Samsung announcing that the OTA fix will be coming soon.
Let’s face it, Verizon’s VCAST apps are not usually ground breaking. Only offering up some core services that are attached to Verizon’s music and location services, they are usually overlooked. However, this time, Verizon has gone and released their own texting application, and it’s pretty decent. On track to compete with Handcent and Chomp the [...]
You’ll remember the epic story of the SMS Bug going around for months now, gaining large attention over the past few days – see both [UPDATE] Android SMS Bug Now Has “Critical” Priority and [Rally with Us] to Fix The Android SMS Bug posts for full details. Seems now the bug’s been parred down to [...]
Hooray! Since yesterday when the entire internet (or at least a few hundred – thousand – million people who’re on Android) rallied behind making the Android SMS Bug a thing of the past by dropping a gigantic amount of clicks on the 9392 SMS BUG thread in the Google Android code complaint department. In the [...]
As you may know from our post this morning, there’s a bug in the greater Android system that messes with your texting. What does it mess with? The recipient. Any text you’ve sent on your Android phone over the past six months could potentially have been sent to the wrong recipient. And not only the [...]
I thought I was just going crazy! Apparently more people than just myself are having trouble with text messages from random people. This new bug causes SMS messages to apparently randomly be sent to the wrong recipient. It’s not clear yet it this is regulated to people on contact lists or if the messages are [...]
PrivacyStar, originally a calling block application for Android, has now updated their application to block SMS messages as well. With only a single app download you can customize who you block and can include calls, SMS, or even prevent calls from blocked numbers.