Android apps’ covert communications may be killing your phone’s battery

[Wireless News]

You recently decided to buy a phone with a bigger battery — so why does it still seem to drain more quickly than you expected? One answer might be that the apps you’ve installed are covertly communicating with their own back-end and other third-party servers on a constant basis even though such communications aren’t helping deliver a better user experience. DON’T MISS:-The craziest and most interesting questions Apple asks during job interviews Via-ZDNet, a new paper paper published by MIT (PDF) has found that “63 percent of the external communication made by top popular free Android applications from Google Play has no effect on the user-observable application functionality.” This constant background chatter with servers also has negative implications for user

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