Crack is Cheap…Crack is Wack.

I’m not slacking, I’ve just been busy at Betanews trying to adhere to the prime directives.

You know…serving the public trust, protecting the innocent, and upholding the law…

That’s how I do.

But I’m gonna do better and spread my work out among a couple of other blogs soon. For now, here’s a look at the two different builds of AVG’s Android antivirus software: phone and tablet.

AVG did a pretty good smartphone survey in February and they shared the results with me at CTIA when I shot this quick video. It was kind of ridiculous, actually. Like many security surveys, it was sort of geared to show how ignorant most people are.

Of nearly 30,000 smartphone users that participated in the survey, 25% DIDN’T EVEN KNOW WHAT OS THEY WERE USING!

That was more than any other single OS named. iOS had 24%, RIM BBOS had 19%, Windows Mobile had 12% and Android had only 9%.

51% said they had, at some point, accidentally signed up for some product or service without knowing it cost money.

59% said they were unsure if they had ever shared their location via photo metadata.

53% said they were unsure if their “confidential payment information” was being shared through third party apps.

AVG is free/freemium. While I’m not personally convinced of the utility of smartphone security apps against good old fashioned conscientious usage, you can’t really argue with their intentions and their price point.

Stay Tuned, I’ll be posting a review of Mikrosonic’s MPC for Android that goes by the name SPC.

Live Streaming TV hits Android

Today, a $9.95 streaming TV app hit the Android Market that has seriously blown me away.

SPB TV 1.0 has got a whole bunch of channels (the press release today says 100+ in 20+ languages,) an awesome interface, an integrated programming guide, picture-in-picture and the ability to set calendar reminders for upcoming shows.

Screenshot from SPB TV

I don’t generally seek out live streams of anything. Like I’ve said in prior posts, I listen to Web radio and stuff (the DroidLive ShoutCast client is great, by the way) but I’m much more a fan of on-demand streaming.

However, SPB TV has really grabbed me. It’s that slick.

The app has been around already on Windows Mobile 6 and Symbian S60 3rd ed. On those platforms, however, the app is much larger and slightly more expensive: 5MB and $14.95…the Android app is only .6MB and $9.95. Either it’s missing some of the functionality of the other platforms, or we’ve got ourselves a fantastic little app here. (We’ve also gotten it before iPhone…but that’s not so surprising, right?)

I’m actually going to go watch it a bit more, and I’ll update this post with further assessments. Right now I’m giving this a tentative “buy” rating even though i’m not totally sure I’ll ever actually use it.

I may just be enamored that it looks so good and actually kind of works.