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Phound app helps you locate your lost gadgets

A new Android app enables users to protect – their mobile devices and personal data. Phound – helps to find a lost gadget quickly

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Sanghamitra Kar
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BANGALORE, INDIA: A new Android app enables users to protect – their mobile devices and personal data. Phound – helps to find a lost gadget quickly and keep any valuable information stored on it away from prying eyes.

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Phound offers gadget owners the ability to control their devices and the data stored on them remotely, via the My Kaspersky portal. If a device is lost or stolen, users can quickly block it to prevent unauthorized access, as well as using GPS, GSM or Wi-Fi networks to find its position on the map. To make searching for the device easier, users can also take pictures with the front camera or bring up a message on the device’s screen.

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If the telephone or tablet was lost at home or in the office, it can be found with the help of the Alarm feature – the device makes a loud sound and continues until the owner enters a secret code. As a last resort, the owner can use Phound! to remove all personal data from the device and the SD card remotely, including contacts, messages, photos etc., as well as perform a hard reset of the device, if required.

“For many users, mobile devices serve as storage for their most valuable and important data – contacts of friends and colleagues, personal messages, private photos and many other things. This means that today’s smartphones and tablets need the same security as a bank vault. However, unlike bank vaults, smartphones are small, portable and easily misplaced. That is why we created a solution for our users to prevent their mobile ‘vault’ from falling into the wrong hands,” said Alexey Chikov, Senior Product Manager, Kaspersky Lab.

Kaspersky Phound is now available in 8 languages from Google Play Store.

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