'Stalking' phone app causes alarm

[homasse]

'Stalking' phone app causes alarm / Software can show a phone's geographic location, reveal owner's movements

Spy software that can be installed in a smartphone to monitor the activities of the phone's user has sparked controversy and drawn complaints to the company that makes it.

The "Karelog" downloadable software application, released on Aug.

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[mindrtist]

I felt the same until I got one with a slide-out keyboard. It's QWERTY, so I thought I'd love it . Yet the numbers and punctuation marks are in weird places and you have to press a "control" button of sorts to change it into number or punctuation mark mode. So, the problem for me ends up that it's kind of hard to see the small buttons and what extra steps I have to take to get upper-lowercase words out without too much effort. Unless I'm in broad daylight and the phone is at the perfect distance for me to be able to see what's going on.

[windy_lea]

I don't like touch phones, and definitely prefer keys. But, I prefer the QWERTY that you access by turning the phone horizontally and pushing the side up. The keyboard systems like blackberry (or the one you have pictured) where it's all cramped into narrow bottom half of the phone look like a real pain. If there's no horizontal QWERTY, I'd rather just use T9, honestly.

[mindrtist]

Exactly! I actually did text while I was driving with a T9. I knew where everything was without having to look. Even the send button.

AT&T gave me $400 credit to change to a smart phone because our plan no longer could service the non-smart phone I had - a Sony Ericsson that is kinda simple. I really love a few apps I have now, but for a while there I was sort of feeling like they were going to have to pry the Sony from my cold dead hands.

[sobota]

blackberry keyboards aren't as cramped (they're a four row, not a three row). if my blackberry didn't have such an awesome keyboard i would have chucked it out a long time ago.

also, this app sounds really, really disturbing. i hope it doesn't start a trend.