Taking your office on the road is a great. Not only do you get phone calls you can receive and reply to emails and edit documents too.
All of this freedom comes at a price though if you loose your phone. And that is very easy to do. So it is important that you have measures in place to secure your phone.
Before using your android phone as a mobile office you need to setup the lock screen. Depending on the version of Android you have three choices
There is an experimental face recognition security system on some phones. I don’t recommend this and it is marked as a low level option on the phones that offer it. Nobody has explained how the phone can tell the difference between your face and a photo of it. Fun but not an option to lock up your mobile office.
You can set the security feature you want to use under the Security option in the Settings screen.
You have locked your mobile office with a password which will prevent most people getting into it if you lose the phone. But if you are unfortunate to mislay your phone you need some way to get it back or ensure it is disabled. That may sound hard if you and your phone are no longer together but there are ways of doing that. The one I like is through an app called Wheres My Droid.
With this app installed on your phone you can use another mobile to make yours ring or to return GPS coordinates. All you have to do is send a text to your phone containing keywords that you have selected when setting up the service. The same features can be activated on your PC through the Wheres My Droid website.
The basic app is free but with the full version (currently $3.99) you can remotely lock the phone or even wipe the device and SD cards if need be.
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All of this freedom comes at a price though if you loose your phone. And that is very easy to do. So it is important that you have measures in place to secure your phone.
Setup an Android lock screen
Before using your android phone as a mobile office you need to setup the lock screen. Depending on the version of Android you have three choices
- Pattern unlock – You swipe your finger across a pattern of dots to open up the phone. This offers a minimum level of protection.
- PIN unlock – You have to enter a code like the ones you use at a cash machine. This is offers a medium level of protection
- Password unlock – Another password to remember but it is the strongest protection level.
There is an experimental face recognition security system on some phones. I don’t recommend this and it is marked as a low level option on the phones that offer it. Nobody has explained how the phone can tell the difference between your face and a photo of it. Fun but not an option to lock up your mobile office.
You can set the security feature you want to use under the Security option in the Settings screen.
Losing your mobile office phone
You have locked your mobile office with a password which will prevent most people getting into it if you lose the phone. But if you are unfortunate to mislay your phone you need some way to get it back or ensure it is disabled. That may sound hard if you and your phone are no longer together but there are ways of doing that. The one I like is through an app called Wheres My Droid.
With this app installed on your phone you can use another mobile to make yours ring or to return GPS coordinates. All you have to do is send a text to your phone containing keywords that you have selected when setting up the service. The same features can be activated on your PC through the Wheres My Droid website.
The basic app is free but with the full version (currently $3.99) you can remotely lock the phone or even wipe the device and SD cards if need be.
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