Chapter 4.8, Problem 3SGDQ

Program Plan Intro

Smartphone:

Smartphone is a mobile device which performs computer functions such as touch screen, accessing the internet, using the operating system to run the phone, and downloading many apps to work.

• The users of Smartphone download many apps to make it faster and powerful.
• Apps are used to access the Smartphone faster with more powerful manner.
• The App Store contains more than million apps for each and everyone by checking the weather conditions, hearing music’s, and so on.
  • Some apps costs are few dollars and many of the apps are free to use.

Free Apps:

The free apps are not charged for download and installation of the app.

• Some free apps have can charge hidden costs or some apps have potential privacy risks.
• The free app may not be considered as malware. But it can access the private data which is unrelated to apps for particular purpose.
  • Let us consider  the  app survey that  discloses the information that 13 out of 15 apps access all user contacts from mobile phone through remote access which controlled by app developer.
  • The information about user contact can be sold to somebody for their profit.