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app permssions from marketplace different when app is installed?

androy

Android Enthusiast
Apr 20, 2010
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in my brain
If an app in the marketplace shows access to only "network communication", is that the only access it should have when installed?

The reason I ask is, I installed Dope Wars and in the marketplace it shows the only permission as Network communication (full internet access).

After I installed it and went into manage applications and selected application info, Dope Wars has access to 3 permissions instead of the 1 as stated in the marketplace.

It has access to:
storage(modify delete SD card contents)
Network Communication (full internet access)
Phone calls(read phone state and identity).

Am I getting worried over nothing or does that seem weird to anyone else? :thinking:
 

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