That you don't know about the phone pre-installed software shady

Occupy the background, consumption of traffic, unable to uninstall ... With the constant popularity of smartphones, mobile phone pre-installed software in the user convenience, but also more and more aroused the dissatisfaction of mobile phone users. In response to the mobile phone pre-installed software issues, in yesterday's CIS Digital Forum Seminar, there are a lot of experts exposed the phone pre-installed software of the shady.

Ministry of Telecommunications Research Institute deputy Chief engineer Chen Jinchao said that the pre-installed software itself is not wrong, but pre-installed software can not uninstall violated the consumer's right to know, the right to choose and fair trade right, but also the right to choose. But the "Three consumption problem" brought by pre-installed software, that is, the power consumption, the flow rate and the money consumption have seriously violated the rights and interests of consumers. According to the Ministry of Statistics, the current Chinese mobile phone manufacturers up to 557, of which 399 are brand manufacturers. A small number of mobile phone manufacturers, unlicensed, paste player machine manufacturers, but also affected the mobile phone pre-installed software management.

When it comes to the dangers of pre-installed software, Conglixian, a professor of law school at Beijing Foreign Studies University, says that software that can't be unloaded automatically consumes memory, consumes traffic, and users don't need to be shut down or unloaded. The reason why many manufacturers, distributors of mobile phone software pre-installed business so enthusiastic, because the provision of pre-installed services profitable, and the profit is staggering. 360 Mobile Phone assistant product director Guo Ziwen said that there is a chain of interest behind the mobile phone pre-installed software. Generally speaking, a single mobile phone pre-installed one software can be charged to the software business eight cents to five dollars. There are also by pre-installed in the back to steal traffic or deduction fees such as some behavior to disguise profit.

Can be pre-installed through vendors and distributors

In general, Third-party software is built into the mobile phone mainly by the handset manufacturers will be pre-installed in the new mobile phone and mobile phone operators to install Third-party applications in the mobile phone two ways.

Even with pre-installed software that can be unloaded, the part of the uninstall is limited to content that is updated later in the software, and can only replace the software with the factory version, rather than unloading the product itself from the phone. As for some of the online use of the machine to get the root of the mobile phone (Super Administrator privileges), although the pre-installed software can be removed, but once customers take this approach to change the mobile phone system, mobile phone manufacturers will no longer provide warranty services.

For mobile pre-installed software, experts suggest that mobile phone manufacturers should respect consumers ' right to know and their own choice. At present, there are many mobile management tools offered by mainstream manufacturers in the market. Qihoo 360 Mobile phone assistant director Guo Ziwen said, 360 mobile phone assistant recently launched the "Management pre-installed software" function, users can easily uninstall pre-installed software, but because the handset manufacturers pre-installed applications have a lot of installed software, users should be cautious uninstall software. If the cell phone does not provide root authority, also can through 360 mobile phone assistant temporary root, generally does not affect the warranty.