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What does this mean?!!!

sunnydogday

Newbie
May 15, 2013
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New to Android phones (asking questions about it in another topic) new to game on phones (I'm not a "kid") I've heard about Angry Birds, so checked it out and found it in Play Store...
Before it intalls it's asking me for permission to access storage on my phone, get m location, etc... one says

Phone Calls
Read phone state and identity
Allows the aplication to access the phone features of the device. An application with this permission can determine the phone number and serial number of this phone, whether a call is active, the number that call is connected to and the like...
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Maybe it has something to do with if I wanted to play the game with someone else (this isn't Angry Birds with Friends I saw somewhere) but this seems a little bit invasive. it ends with "an the like..."?
 
New to Android phones (asking questions about it in another topic) new to game on phones (I'm not a "kid") I've heard about Angry Birds, so checked it out and found it in Play Store...
Before it intalls it's asking me for permission to access storage on my phone, get m location, etc... one says

Phone Calls
Read phone state and identity
Allows the aplication to access the phone features of the device. An application with this permission can determine the phone number and serial number of this phone, whether a call is active, the number that call is connected to and the like...
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Maybe it has something to do with if I wanted to play the game with someone else (this isn't Angry Birds with Friends I saw somewhere) but this seems a little bit invasive. it ends with "an the like..."?
I would suggest you read Android Permission Explained.
 
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I read it, but still confused. I'm new to these kind of phones. It says on the page about permissions to ask others, that's what I did here. I didn't know these phones would allow apps on them that might be potentially dangerous. I don't know why the Angry Bird game would need what it asks for, so guess I will skip it. I was mainly just curious to know what the game is like, I'd heard about it.
 
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