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One of the overall winners of Google’s ADC2 is capitalizing on their recent success and offering free lifetime memberships to their service for a limited time. Anyone who signs up for WaveSecure by January 31, 2010 will receive a free account.
From ADC2 winners gallery: “WaveSecure is an innovative security product that provides users with complete mobile device and data protection. It enables users to remotely lock down and track down lost phones, get a copy of their data securely backed up, and remotely wipe data of the phone to protect user privacy.”
WaveSecure allows the user to protect their phone by:
- Lock: Remotely lock down your phone. Make it worthless to a thief. Show messages and sound alarm.
- Track: Tracking of new SIM cards. SMS Alert to buddy. Aut0-lock when SIM changed.
- Back up: All personal data coverage. Zero-effort auto-backup. Remotely trigger backup.
- Wipe out: Remote wipe out of private data. Wipe all data types (SMS, pics, etc). Protects your privacy and security.
I have personally never used the software, but it looks like a good opportunity test it out for free. It is normally hard to recommend a security software when you do not know the developer, but tenCube has been around awhile and received numerous industrial awards. If Google felt it was worthy of winning ADC, then you should feel safe using it.
We prefer to use Mobile Defense for tracking our phones, so it will be interesting to see how the competing services match up. If you have tried both, please sound off in the comments.
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8 Comments
I use it & find it great. Lots of nice features.
I could never activate mobile defense on t-mobile because of some network error when disabling the mail filter. Now I use wavesecure and it works well: I could lock my phone via sms. Haven’t tried the other features yet.
i like lookout security http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZcK6d81n0A
wow it looks HUGE!
Not ready for prime time. Installation is complex and confusing. Couldn’t log-in to the website. Uninstalled.
It’s not even worth the price…
“Not ready for prime time. Installation is complex and confusing. Couldn’t log-in to the website. Uninstalled.
It’s not even worth the price…”
Maybe for mentally challenged people it is..
I found it straightforward enough, and logged in on website fine (did you type your country code?).
Unlike before there are no international text messages for the US and UK , but for other countries you may want to find out yourself before installing.
I think it’s a brilliant app, and well worth getting before the 31st!
Installed and broke it but have a fix. When you lock it, the home button still works(i.e. it exits the “lockdown screen”). It does come back up on it’s own though. If you have an advanced task manager widget on your home screen though, you can hit it and it will kill wave secure. Make sure you add it to your task manager’s excluded app list.
Also, a reboot and hitting “menu” and “home” a bunch during the phones startup process can cause a “force close.” Again, defeating the purpose.
And of course, there is always the chance that you have a rooted handset, which would give you a custom recovery, which would allow you to “adb uninstall.”
Great concept but needs some polish.
It doesn’t work with my Moto Droid. I was able to back up my contacts and sms, but i tried the tracking feature and that didn’t work and then the lock feature times out every time. It’s somewhat compatible, so i’m confused.