Transparent smartphones being released 2013: Polytron

Think transparent smartphones are futuristic? Definitely not. For, if Taiwan-based Polytron has its own way, we are going to soon be holding a transparent smartphone. Polytron, which works on display technologies, has unveiled a smartphone prototype having a transparent body. A corporation exec has claimed that users will see the appearance of transparent glass phone because of the end on this year.

 The business's prototype is manufactured using glass which is light in weight and comes with a transparent screen and the body. The prototype has not been functioning and hardware like battery, camera and micro sd card may very well be seen from the naked eye.

 Polytron says that manufacturers can build smartphones using this type of specially designed glass, containing its patented electrical wiring that's nearly invisible. This wiring provides each see-through effect on the phone's body.

 Sam Yu, gm of the company, reportedly stated that the display technology is mature and various phone manufacturers will be looking at deploying it. He failed to, however, say much a mobile phone which has a transparent body cost.

Samsung recently unveiled Youm, a curved display that is certainly supposed to be included in its upcoming flagship smartphone Samsung galaxy s IV. Nokia have also been inside news because it has been awarded a $1.35 billion grant to figure on graphene, that is harder than diamond and steel which enable it to be employed to make smash-proof phones.

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Android has security flaw : Google

WASHINGTON: A burglar flaw has made simple to use for scam artists to deliver phony texting to Android phones with help of any security flaw, a report states.

 At the end of October, researchers at Vermont State University alerted Google into a practice called "smishing" that will ensnare consumers in fraud.

 Google's security officials confirmed the flaw and promising to take care of it.

 Within days that they incorporated a fix in to the latest version with the Android operating system, Jelly Bean 4.2, making available a burglar alarm update for earlier versions.

 However for most Android phones, the fix never arrived, as well as many, it never will, the Washington Post reports.

 The reason is it isn't clear recognise the business, Google, the smartphone maker or perhaps the wireless carrier that sells it, bears ultimate responsibility for that costly process of getting security updates for an Android device.

 Good paper, fixes to known security flaws might take nearly a year to achieve individual smartphones, whenever they go to all.

 Security experts declared the condition has contributed to making our planet's most favored mobile computer more susceptible than its rivals to hackers, scam artists along with a growing universe of malicious software.

 Breaches remain more widespread on traditional computers than you are on smartphones, which has been engineered to include safety measures not entirely on desktop or laptop machines, experts added.

 The report noticed that if there seemed to be a serious outbreak of malicious software, the fractured nature on the heart.} system for delivering updates could dramatically slow efforts to shield information carried on Android phones, including documents, passwords, contact lists, pictures, videos, location data and credit-based card numbers.

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