Hi everybody.
John, with every respect to your above posting, but Windows phones of any version now make up only one percent of the worldwide smartphone market. Android however now make up nine out of every ten smartphones sold worldwide. Here in the UK very few high street phone retailers even stock Windows phones in stores any longer and should anyone require one they have to be specially ordered online. Therefore for almost all smartphone buyers the choice is either Google Android or Apple IOS
In regard to email security with Android or IOS the advice is always the same. That advice would be, always have a recognized antivirus app on your phone and scan all attachments that are contained within an email. Along with the foregoing, should an email contain a link to a website that is not known to you, then do not follow that link unless you are sure the site is secure and has relevance to the content of the email.
The vast majority of emails sent at present are business or work related, and employers (who very often supply the phones to their employee) always instruct those employees not to place website links into company related emails. Email links are always the weakest point in any company IT security and severe disciplinary action is taken against any employee who compromises that security by visiting unauthorised or “dodgy” websites on a company supplied phone.
In regard to internet banking on smartphones, many millions worldwide use their phones every day for the purpose of carrying out their banking making it the most widely used form of accessing bank accounts. Security in that is very much in the hands of those that hold those accounts and use their smartphones to access them. To always use a strong password or pin number is the best advice in regard to older phones and change them at regular intervals.
However, in the above the latest Android phones come with fingerprint recognition and as realized a fingerprint is individual to each person. Banking apps are developing so that a user has to keep their finger on the recognition sensor of the phone throughout the transaction. As the latest phones have that sensor on the rear of the phone that is easily carried out making that the most secure system available or ever likely to be available on a smartphone.
In the above, for those who wish to have the highest security for any internet use, then the most proven system for that security is Google OS (not to be confused with Google Android). Google OS is only available on Google laptops (known as Chromebooks) or Samsung, LG or Acer built desktops (known as a chromebase). As the operating system is 100% clouds based that means that every keystroke made on the device passes through the Google servers and is security checked. Every item entering into a device running Google OS is also passed by way of the Google servers and therefore security checked before being passed. No antivirus software is required in any way when using this operating system
Google OS is the only operating system never to have been hacked or compromised in any way even though Google regularly offer large rewards to anyone who can compromise the system. The only downside is that Google get to know everything about its users by way of all items passing through its servers and they certainly use that information as you notice by way of their targeted advertising. However, if anyone wants the best proven security available Google OS is the way to go in my humble opinion.
Google OS is now the fastest growing operating system on the market making huge strides in the business and education sectors. Of course it does rely on a good broadband connection but as those connections roll out worldwide so the OS grows.
Bill
