We’re not generally fans of your cell phone handing out tidbits like your GPS location like they’re candy, because it offers the potential to be abused and quite frankly, most people who want that information don’t need it. Big corporations shouldn’t be able to track your movement any more than the government should.

Unless it means that YouTube video on my phone will stream more smoothly. Oooooh, kitties!

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So, you download lots of apps. That’s what smartphones are for, after all; easy, efficient, clear distribution of information with custom software. And, if you’re like anybody else, you didn’t bother reading the Terms of Service, you just blindly clicked yes.

And you may have turned your phone into a rat as a result.

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It’s an old iPhone tradition: Apple puts out a new release of its iOS operating system, with improved security measures, and then the hackers are off to the races, looking for a security exploit to get the iPhone off AT&T and onto a network that doesn’t stink, like T-Mob…oh. Right.

For years, Apple’s thorn has been the Pwnage tool, which lets pretty much anybody get their iPhone onto the network they want with a relative minimum of fuss. Despite AT&T screaming about it, Apple hasn’t done much, for Apple. It’s almost like they’re encouraging it! Nah…

Anyway, the latest go-round features freedom for everybody, with one notable exception: the iPad 2.

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It’s one of the eternal frustrations of the iPhone: it’s a great device…trapped on a terrible network. Much better to just take it to a carrier who cares, but, of course, the iPhone is locked to AT&T’s network. What to do?

Most people have been jailbreaking their iPhone using software exploits, but that’s risky; it can crash the phone, corrupt key elements of the software, and naturally, it voids your warranty. Besides, they haven’t cracked the new iOS yet. While you’re waiting, Gevey has come up with a way to do it using your SIM card that…well…it’s certainly different.

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Google has been good to Sprint. The Android phones have done what a solid decade of advertising and playing aggressively couldn’t: turned around Sprint’s fortunes and finally had it start to add subscribers after bleeding them for years. The EVO 4G has been a huge success, and Android in general has been Sprint’s buddy ever since it came out, offering real competition to the iPhone.

And now Sprint’s taking it one step further: integrating with Google Voice.

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Let’s see here, AT&T’s network is famously terrible, Sprint until recently was floundering trying to redefine itself, and Verizon thinks your civil rights and privacy are for sale. That leaves T-Mobile as the least evil and incompetent cell phone provider. And unless the government intervenes, that’s by the boards because AT&T is buying T-Mobile America. In related news, this officially confirms the existence of an angry, vengeful God.

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We have phones that can buy plane tickets, play video games from the early 2000s, rock out to music, and blast data across networks at incredible speed, but still can’t get a call to you with anything resembling decent audio clarity. Well, thanks to Ericsson, that’s about to change.

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There’s a lot of hype surrounding 4G, especially with Verizon touting its LTE network, Sprint reversing its fortunes with its 4G Android phones, and T-Mobile imitating Apple ads with an Anne Hathaway lookalike to try and keep up. But who has the fastest network? PC World ran the tests, and the results might surprise you.

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Further blurring the line between mobile computers and phones, Motorola plans to offer docking systems like the one debuted on its 4G Atrix phone on all of its high-end smartphones by the second half of 2011. Moto CEO Sanjay Jha revealed the news to investors today.

Launched at CES in January, the Motorola Atrix is a powerful, dual-core smartphone that can be docked into Motorola’s Lapdock, essentially turning it from phone to hard drive. Motorola’s dock is basically a laptop-shaped keyboard, battery  and screen that relies on the Atrix and its Webtop app to run.

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