Guarding your Mobile - Symbian Toy Guardian

There has been a great dependence that we have nurtured towards our telecommunication devices that has made mobile phones, pager, computers and home telephony into vital elements of our daily lives. A research was done and the findings highlighted that many of us have developed the fear of losing these devices - especially our mobile phones. In fact, many do not fear losing the devices but its the information contained within the devices that we fear to loose such as our contact book and e-mail addresses.

There are many solution to safeguarding these information. Telecommunication operators like Maxis has provided services like Phone book backup and messages back up to provide the ease of mind against the fear of loss. Apart from the operator services, synchronization softwares and applications are available to sync the contents of the phone with the Personal Computer to enable a symmetric image of your device into another repository. Web services such as Plaxo provides the similar function as well, with the added feature of periodic update with all your contact list.

A free option for Symbian phones (mainly the Nokias) can be obtained from Symbian Toys with its third party application called the Guardian.



This application provides the service of authenticating the SIM card placed within a particular mobile phone. When a phone is lost or stolen, it can be traced to the next user who removes the SIM card from the phone and replaces it with his or her own. Once the authentication of the SIM fails, it will push an SMS out to your configured mobile number to alert you of the person's mobile number and which mobile cell area the phone is activated. With these details, you will be able to contact the person or lodge a report to recover your mobile phone.

The interesting thing about this application is that, it has further plugins above the basic function. This plugins can be obtained through a donation for the development of this application. The plugins will extend the basic function of the application such as deleting all information from the mobile phone through a set sms command to the phone.

Now, we can have more security and comfort with our mobile devices - if its lost, we will know to whom it goes to and if we cannot do anything on retrieving the mobile phone, we can wipe the data clean remotely.

This is definitely a worthy application to be tried out. And to those who have additional money, please direct your contribution to support further development of this application.