Spice, one of the country’s relatively popular mobile Internet companies have announced that they will be coming up with India’s first ‘Secure Android’, which offers pre-embedded security solutions to its users in their upcoming range of MI (Mobile Internet) smartphones. The initiative will reinforce S Mobility’s efforts in making its devices safe and secure as users are becoming wary of the potential threat the data in their smartphones faces; as the world converges towards mobile Internet and m-commerce.
An average smartphone user is exposed to various threats that can disrupt the operation of the smartphone, and transmit or modify the user data. Industry estimates suggest there are approximately six hundred varieties of mobile phone viruses and they exist only in smartphones. It is estimated that the number of global smartphone users will exceed 1 billion by 2013. While a study predicts that 26 out of every 100 phones sold globally this year will be smartphones, by 2015, smartphones will make up for 40 percent of the total handsets sold across the world. The smartphone segment is expected to see a much higher growth at 63.4 percent from 2011-15 and may achieve a shipment of 77.5 million by 2015 in the Indian market.
For these reasons, the applications deployed there must guarantee privacy and integrity of the information they handle. In addition to this, since some apps could themselves be malware, their functionality and activities should be limited.
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The solutions offered by Spice will include an anti-virus solution that will provide real-time protection from malicious Internet threats and also offer flexibility for the user to set a schedule for regular scans of data in the device as well as SD card. Also in the security stable is a Network Manager giving access to data like Traffic, setting monthly data transfer limit. Other features include anti-theft and Vault-privacy lock for following apps, like, Photos, Videos, SMS and Call Logs & Secret Contacts.
Speaking on this Mr. Kunal Ahooja, Global Head – Devices, S Mobility said,
An average smartphone user is exposed to various threats that can disrupt the operation of the smartphone, and transmit or modify the user data. Industry estimates suggest there are approximately six hundred varieties of mobile phone viruses and they exist only in smartphones. It is estimated that the number of global smartphone users will exceed 1 billion by 2013. While a study predicts that 26 out of every 100 phones sold globally this year will be smartphones, by 2015, smartphones will make up for 40 percent of the total handsets sold across the world. The smartphone segment is expected to see a much higher growth at 63.4 percent from 2011-15 and may achieve a shipment of 77.5 million by 2015 in the Indian market.
For these reasons, the applications deployed there must guarantee privacy and integrity of the information they handle. In addition to this, since some apps could themselves be malware, their functionality and activities should be limited.
Image for representative purposes only
The solutions offered by Spice will include an anti-virus solution that will provide real-time protection from malicious Internet threats and also offer flexibility for the user to set a schedule for regular scans of data in the device as well as SD card. Also in the security stable is a Network Manager giving access to data like Traffic, setting monthly data transfer limit. Other features include anti-theft and Vault-privacy lock for following apps, like, Photos, Videos, SMS and Call Logs & Secret Contacts.
Speaking on this Mr. Kunal Ahooja, Global Head – Devices, S Mobility said,
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