Protect Your Phone with Lookout – Product Review
By Brady on Jan 13, 2010 with 19
UPDATE: You can now grab Lookout for free in our store!
Have you been looking for a free program to protect and backup your Android phone? Look no further! Lookout is a great security app that features antivirus, data backup, even missing phone capabilities. The best part?It’s completely free!
To install the program on your phone just simply visit m.mylookout.com from your phone and click the download link. Once the program is installed you can log into the web interface from your computer and schedule backups, set the antivirus scan intervals, locate your phone, or even set off a siren on your phone.
Lookout Features:
Security
The Lookout App is stuffed full of features including antivirus, firewall, and intrusion prevention. These technologies are designed to be lightweight on the phone’s system and battery.
Mobile devices have a variety of attack surfaces — SMS, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and downloads, to name a few. Lookout protects you from the threats facing mobile devices today, all without needing advanced knowledge or the need for complex configuration. Set and forget.
Data Backup
According to the website Lookout backs up your personal data including contacts, photos, video, e-mail, and text messages. For my Motorola Droid it only gives me the option to back up pictures and contacts, so that may vary by device. Regardless, you can set daily or weekly backups to make sure that you always have access to your pictures and contacts.
Missing Device
If your device goes missing its simple to track it down. Just log into the web interface at mylookout.com, click the missing device tab and click locate. It will show where your device is located on a handy map. There is also a scream feature which can be useful if you know your phone is around the house somewhere but can figure out exactly where. Once you activate the scream feature it sets off a siren from your phone.
If you are worried about viruses on your phone (phones are basically small computers these days), want to make sure your data gets backed up daily, or if you are one of these people that loses their phone once a week, you have to give Lookout a try.
Once you download it, let us know what you think!
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Locate feature for Droid is apparently still in beta version and does not work.
Lookout's Locate feature doesn't work for windows either. On the flip side MyPhone from Microsoft is extremely precise. It can locate the position even if you are in a high rise building. Only downside is that it isn't free. It's a premium feature. Cost about $5 for 1 week.
With GPS turned off, LookOut's Locate feature located my phone to within 450 meters.
Granted, if the phone was stolen, this wouldn't get me close enough on one attempt.
However, if I misplaced the device, having just that much accuracy would probably be close enough to jog one's memory about where they may have missplaced the device. Quite useful.
How do Lookout make money?
Have downloaded Lookout on my Droid cell phone. What do I need to do on my pc to use the search/scream feature to find my phone if I lose it? Thanks!
How do you use the Lookout feature to find a lost/stolen Droid? Do you use a computer?
Yes, I used the computer. Website says locate feature for Motorola Droid still in beta version. Tested it and it showed phone to be ten miles from where it actually was. Other features of program work fine.
Downloaded it to my HTC Desire yesterday, Tried the features while at home and it worked a treat. Accuracy of location to 60m and within my building… Tried it at work today and accuracy of 500m and still within my building. Scream feature works and all my data is backed up. Very good prog and for nothing, you can't go far wrong…
Yes, wonder the same.. are you all aware of the expression “if it looks too good to be true, well then it probably is too good to be true”.
I can not see why anyone would give away this service for free, it smells kind of fishy to me.
I couldn’t even find a “Lookout apparel store” on their website or “Lookout $19.99 paid version” on the Android Market. Could this all be part of a plot by Google to grab whatever personal data their own apps failed to steal? Hmmmm…
unfortunately, the phone has to be on to be found. I lost my phone and it died before i could get to a computer to track it down.
I down loaded the app and the missing device is not free. it is $29.95 per year.
I am very pleased with the quality and ease of handling with this camera. While it is not a point and shoot camera, it does provide a convenient method for changing options quickly such as changing the ISO level. It does take some getting used to.
I am very pleased with the quality and ease of handling with this camera. While it is not a point and shoot camera, it does provide a convenient method for changing options quickly such as changing the ISO level. It does take some getting used to.
I am very pleased with the quality and ease of handling with this camera. While it is not a point and shoot camera, it does provide a convenient method for changing options quickly such as changing the ISO level. It does take some getting used to.
I am very pleased with the quality and ease of handling with this camera. While it is not a point and shoot camera, it does provide a convenient method for changing options quickly such as changing the ISO level. It does take some getting used to.
it runs good
It looks like “Cams” and “Italia” were reading from the same script.