Android has received a bad rep lately for being a petri dish for malware. Yes, you can install any app you want on your smartphone, that’s what makes Android such a great platform. Just make sure you know what you’re installing and you won’t have any problems.

Some people don’t understand all that, so they install every app widget and skin possible on their phone and are shocked when their beautiful handset mutates into a deranged monster hell bent on world domination. In their newest marketing campaign, Microsoft wants to hear all about Android users’ most vile and gruesome malware horror stories, and if it’s entertaining enough they might give you a free phone too.

A leaked Sprint holiday ad has outed an upcoming deal that some of you may want to take advantage of. Starting this Friday, December 7, and running through December 24, Sprint will be offering BOGO (Buy One Get One) deals on select Samsung Galaxy smartphones.

Apple’s iPads, including the new iPad mini, have become the most successful tablets every built. Almost three years after Steve Jobs introduced the original iPad, the device continues to be the king of slates, with more than half of the tablet market share. That hasn’t changed much in 2012, but Android tablets have slowly been eating away at its market share, and it may not be long before they dominate.

The DROID DNA is a beast of a device from HTC that landed on Verizon a couple weeks ago. Looking to give other phablet devices a run for their money, this bad boy features a stunning 5-inch 1080p Super LCD3 displayas well as a slew of other high-end specs. While the device debuted on Verizon for $199.99, Amazon Wireless has already dropped that price by $50 for both new customers and eligible upgrades.

When you combine all the titles in Apple’s App Store with those in Google Play, you have a catalog of more than 1.4 million apps from hundreds of thousands of developers. But incredibly, more than 50% of the revenue made by these stores in the United States goes to just 25 app developers.