For all the budget tablet / smartphone fans out there: BudgetAndroidForum.com

Yep, that’s one of the advantages of the BLF forum engine, and a disadvantage of the one I used at the the new Android site. In the case of the new Android site, it adapts to support the screen size of mobile devices, which is pretty important given the fact that many users there will probably be on a mobile device.

Out of curiosity can I ask what browser you tried it with?

I was poking around on various computer security sites last week and came across an article that mentioned that something like 90% of the cheapo no-name droids (phones and tablets) from China came with some form of malware pre-loaded on them. Great time saver… no need to spend time getting yourself infected. On some devices the infection was down as far as the bootloader code so it could never be removed.

Plus they have now found malware in E-cigs, USB chargers, and even USB cables from China. Also clothing irons with wi-fi cards installed in them that spread malware.

Is this the one you’re talking about?

Looks like it was a specific model, and the 97% figure is the percentage of mobile malware that was targeted at Android.

At any rate, it would definitely be a good idea to run a traffic sniffer on the LAN and also run a virus scanner on these (and any other) Android devices.

No, the article that I was looking at talked about several models of phones and tablets that were pre-infected in some way. The gist was the lower the price, the larger the chance of problems. I don’t know what site I was on at the time. I had clicked down through a nest of about 20 links when my browser crashed because of too many open windows.

It was IE8. I tend to segregate different types of activity to different browsers and run some in sandboxes to reduces the chances of infection. Unknown sites usually end up in my sandboxed IE window first. Newer versions of IE don’t always work well with the sandbox or some of the plugins I have installed, which is why it’s still at IE8, not to mention I still have XP machines which can only go up to IE8.

KuoH

Hmm, interesting. Thanks for letting me know. That might be a bug, from what I’ve read there should be basic compatibility of the forum engine with IE8. Hmm, sorry I was wrong. It barely works with IE9 as a minimum. IE10+ or something non-IE is preferred.

Interesting website, thanks for sharing.

People might prefer the name BudgetAndroidForum over CHINAndroidForum because I think we have a slightly negative stigma about Chinese products, despite the fact that every phone and tablet is made there.

I’ll do a review of the OnePlus One there. I hope it’s considered as a Chinese Android phone, haha.

Sweet, thanks very much Ryan! I’d love to see a review of your OnePlus One.

Also, I took your suggestion and bought BudgetAndroidForum.com, should start working soon.

I tried to create an account on CHINAndroidforum.com...

but was unable to do so. :_(

I don't know if it matters, but I was using Google Chrome.


EDIT: I figured it out. No spaces are allowed in a username. ;)

Hey, that’s amazing! Nice to see the redirect. :slight_smile:

Glad you made it!

:wink: It’s just a duplicate domain at this point. I’ll probably set up a redirect at some point tomorrow, not sure which will become the default domain yet.

Any chance we can have the site placed on the “Related Sites” list?

I’ll have to ask the administrator about that… :wink: :bigsmile: I’d be glad to do so, but I don’t want to be obnoxious about promoting my own site either.

If we're not happy about anything you do we'll mark it as spam anyway so all's good. Advertise away.

:wink:

Looks like you are using Discourse. I am using it on Discourse.Powercartel.com. I don’t have any compatibility problems, because no one has tried to sign up yet :slight_smile:

I just did. :slight_smile: Seems to work fine.

Yep, Discourse is a pretty nice piece of software isn’t it?

Just registered, thanks! I’m looking forward to watching the community grow.

Great, thanks a lot! I also hope it’ll turn into a nice community. It’ll take some time, but hopefully it’ll get there.