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Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Sprint Guardian Service Apps – Good news for Android phone users


Your Family’s security and well-being is a priority – which is beginning to get difficult in current times. Technology can play a vital role in ensuring safety of your family. In this case, Sprint has come up with it’s latest application for their customers who use Android phones.
Sprint’s amicable Service
Sprint has partnered with two application developing companies, Lookout Mobile Security and Safety apps, to develop applications that are apt at tracking locations and developing security apps for various Android phones. The service offers various packages to the customers ranging between $4.99 and $14.98 per month, which are according to the demands of users.
Variety of apps to suit your demands
The software has different apps – Sprint’s Lookout app provides protection against harmful malware, making security and other features important, like locating missing phones. This provides protection against android spyware and ensures the safety of the the users. This also allows the user to manage their family’s devices at mylookout.com while monitoring other details like the call log, contacts list and photo gallery. Another one is the Safely Family application, which offers various functions that helps to ensure the safety of your children. One of the applications called Sprint Mobile Controls allows the user to monitor their kids’ activities and their cell phone data.
A useful application Drive First focuses on the teenagers’ incessant habit of texting while driving. The app automatically locks the cell phone as soon as the user of the phone is traveling at a speed of more than 10mph, and unlocks the phone once the user stops driving.
Another application, Family Locator works as a GPS locator and helps in geofencing, helping the user to locate their family members on a map. Parents are given the opportunity to design the boundaries. This means the app will notify the parents if their kid has crossed the boundary. This will help the parents to keep track of their teens’ activities.
There can be a limitation to this application, as it is available only to Android phones.
Easy to use interface
Those who have used this application can say that it is pretty clean and easy to use. The only drawback is that it will only be available on the Sprint Zone, which somewhat limits the user base. Nonetheless, Sprint is determined to give their customers proper customer satisfaction when they purchase a new phone on a family plan. This should satisfy the queries of the consumers that they might face with regards to the service’s usage.
Having a vast variety of apps in a single service would mean that the service is able to address the security needs of all members of the family. Technology has its benefits and its drawbacks, hence, making it useful to protect your loved ones through its wide range of security apps, while limiting their availability to consumers will only create problems for them.

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