Professional’s Score
Execs
- Wonderful virus safety
- Complete internet safety
Our Verdict
For simply £2 a month, you get what looks like a unprecedented quantity. Good virus safety, theft safety, VPN and internet safety. Nonetheless the VPN has restricted knowledge, so you could want a costlier separate subscription.
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Greatest Pricing At the moment
To run Bitdefender Cell Safety, you’ll pay £2 per thirty days, however you may get a reduced worth of simply over £1 per thirty days for the primary yr. And when you have a multi-platform licence with Bitdefender, this Android app is included.
However double-check that you simply don’t have Antivirus Plus or Web Safety. These variations don’t embody Mac, iOS and this Android resolution, they’re Home windows-only.
If you happen to go for Whole Safety for £39.50 for the primary yr (50% off) this contains 5 gadgets throughout Home windows, Mac, Android and iOS. That worth is in-app however oddly it’s £44.99 on the internet, down from £79.99.
If you wish to strive before you purchase, you may get a free full-featured model that’s legitimate for 14 days. The one requirement is that you simply register an account with Bitdefender.
The safety towards malicious apps is a bit higher than what you get from Google Play Defend. In line with AV-Check, it protects towards all their makes an attempt to contaminate your cell phone with recognized dangerous apps.
It additionally retains a good rein on so-called real-time threats, i.e. undetected malicious apps, which Google’s resolution lets by often. It’s good when you have a behavior of putting in apps from much less protected sources like downloaded apk information.
Retains shady hyperlinks out
Along with good app safety, internet safety is included for many cellular browsers together with Chrome, Edge, Opera, Samsung Browser and Courageous. You’re additionally protected towards rip-off hyperlinks in textual content messages, the chat apps Whatsapp, Messenger, Discord and Telegram, and in emails.
Throughout my check with Bitdefender on my cell phone, I acquired a rip-off textual content message from a pretend “Postnord” sender that wished to direct me to a dodgy website with a suspicious URL. Bitdefender agreed and wouldn’t let me blindly click on on it.
The app additionally selects apps you could put behind a biometric lock or pin code to launch. This ensures that nobody can open apps that aren’t authorised, together with different apps. It’s an additional layer of safety should you’ve left your telephone unlocked.
Good theft safety, minimal vpn
You get anti-theft safety that may be activated through an online interface. It lets you find your telephone by IP and GPS, lock it should you lose it, take an image to see should you can see who the thief is, or activate an alarm.
It’s best to even be capable of remotely wipe your telephone, if preserving delicate knowledge in your system away from unauthorised folks is extra essential than getting it again.
You get a easy VPN with out a location selector, restricted to 200MB per day. Simply sufficient to learn emails and do banking securely and anonymously. However not for streaming video, for instance. You’ll need to get Bitdefender’s separate VPN app and subscription.
The interface is easy and Bitdefender’s Autopilot characteristic that repeatedly offers you clever suggestions makes it simple to make use of. Some options and settings are simpler to seek out than others, however none are significantly hidden.
Specs
- App management
- Anti-theft
- Searching safety
- VPN
- Wi-Fi management
- Identification monitoring
- Android 5
This text initially appeared on our sister publication PC för Alla and was translated and tailored from Swedish.