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Nokia Phone Gets Virus Protection
wan-fu writes "After all that talk about bluetooth vulnerabilities
and mobile phone virii there will finally be a mobile phone with virus protection. Nokia's 6670 smart phone will be released in October and features software from F-Secure. Perhaps this will raise the eyebrows of some other mobile phone manufacturers to step up and increase their security policies for their phones' operating systems."
They do? Good thing I have a phone that just makes calls. Who would have thought of that nowadays?
Automatic updates?? That would be interesting...
The best way to predict the future is to invent it. -Alan Kay
Good score for the marketing people. Buy our phones and get protection against those nasty viruses. Right now the chances of your phone getting infected are practically nil, and most phone viruses have been demonstrated by AV firms themselves to help seed a market for them in the future.
For all intensive porpoises your a bunch of rediculous loosers
"a mobile telephone that is just that : a telephone. "
Yeah and cars are cars and planes are planes. No place for CD players, clocks, complex error prone computer systems and whatnot.
Telephony is just a feature and I can't see any particular reason why it should deserve a dedicated box.
I don't particularly want to carry a multitude of individual plastic/metal containers for each feature that I may need daily, such as a calculator, clock, camera, calendar etc.
So perhaps these damn thingies, phones, PDAs, laptops etc. should be called something new and neutral. Any ideas?
J
I agree. There will always be a simple option for buyers. Personally, I like having things combined, especially when I'm in the airport. When I'm trying to pack light and don't want 40 pounds of carry-on, having a PDA that plays video, checks email, and lets me make phone calls is a godsend.
Fair point, however I DO want more features on my cellphone. I'd love an applet that lets you use your phone as a remote via IR/BT (and such an applet indeed exists for S60 phones), a GB/GBA emulator, a dice roller app for pen-paper-and-phone rpgs, and there's also another app that remotely controls emule.
Ok, I admit that a lot (most?) of people who buy an expensive phone would be better off buying last year's (month's ?) model for half the money, but some people out there actually want the blinkenlights.
(Now if only Apple gets the 6230 working with iSync...)
Since all phone trafic travels through their networks and all software is propreietary there is no reason for viruses to be able to spread.
Analysing and removing the packages that contain virus data could be done on the server level much more easily than at the client level, also by charging for the service they are allowing users with phones that don't have virus protection to become infected and increasing the threat of infection to their other users.
Basically they are screwing everyone in order to eventually offer virus support.