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4 ways to protect mobile phones from being stolen.



Mobile phones have become an internal part of our lives and also it has become a hub for all our source and information. And losing all this information if our device is stolen is a risky task to bear. It is not only the financial loss but loss of personal data and can be our worst nightmare if misused by others.
So here are some ways to protect your device from being stolen includes techniques for Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry, Apple devices.
·        Android Gadgets
Android offers its own official feature to track and erase all the phones data via online from any location from google.com/android/devicemanager. It can track the device and make it ring, lock and erase the data.
Some of the antivirus can also be tried out like Kaspersky, AVG, and Avast. They also offer to lock the device and erase all the data from the device.
·        Windows Phone Devices
Find My Phone is the official feature which is available for tracking windows phone. It’s very simple to use you just need to go to windowsphone.com and sign in using the same Windows live ID that you use on the smartphone.
The browser will then display the phone location and then you can choose from various options like to lock the device, erase everything, lock the device or even ring the device.
·        BlackBerry Smartphones
Anti-theft feature on BlackBerry smartphone is called as BlackBerry Protect. It is setup by just signing in with your blackberry account and once signed in it automatically creates backups of contacts, bookmarks and calendar entries.
It also features the same actions just like other devices and can erase everything, lock the device or even ring the device and you can manage seven devices from a single BB account.
·        Apple iPhone,iPod,iPod Touch

Apple’s free anti-theft application is called Find My iPhone and it works on all iOS devices. And it can manage all the Apple devices from one single account. The device can be located by just logging in into the iCloud account from any browser and then send messages, wipe the data or lock the device.
If you want to try any anti-theft applications then you can try out Secureit or iLostfinder.
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