Sony Xperia Z Unboxing and Hands-On

We have a fairly new addition in our family. It's a sleek temptress with lines and angles that put my Droid RAZR HD to absolute shame. It's incredibly thin compared to the Motorola as well, but that's no difficult feat nowadays. It's also rather tall and wide, which posed a few concerns for its owner before it arrived. Those fears were quickly allayed upon first holding it however, and overall the Sony Xperia Z has actually made my sister interested in smartphones.

Anti-Theft Apps - how tall have you built the fortress walls on your device(s)?

Getting back into the spirit of writing (if there even is one), I found myself stumped today with where to pick things up from my somewhat lengthy absence. It was only as I was trawling through my G+ feed, searching for a source for inspiration that I was startled by the high-pitched, irritating tone of a security alarm fitted on the newly built house next door. Not showing an immediate concern for whatever was happening next door, I tried to drown out the sound with tunes but to no avail - 'Gimme Shelter' just wasn't the same with an alarm sounding in the background. After a good 3 minutes, I checked outside my window to see what all the fuss was about and realised the slip-up was caused by a real estate agent who had no clue how to turn the alarm off.

Photo of an old Gregory's map from the 1940s that we have in the family - unusual that it knew
 we'd  need to know the location of our mobile telephones one day...

It was then that I began to think about security. What would happen if you lost your precious gem of a phone at a restaurant, or on public transport - or worse yet, it was stolen. How would you react, and what methods do you have in place to safeguard any data that may be sensitive?