Vodafone has launched a standalone Android app it’s calling Vodafone Guardian, which is a sort of simple phone management tool designed to reassure parents that it’s OK to give their kids a smartphone.
The app lets admin users block calls and messages from certain users, ban use of the camera, limit web and app use and even lock down features on a timed basis, so the phone can shut itself off at bed time. Which is something we could do with.
Will also keep the wife off the Daily Mail app. We’ll have it. Vodafone Guardian is free and on the Android Market here.
It’s smooth to use, the 1080p display is sharp, clear and bright, the device is extremely light and thin and therefore very pocketable and portable — much more so than other 5-inch phones we’ve used. And yet… we’re a bit unimpressed by the overall package…
A relatively high-spec smartphone, with a 4.5″ display running at 480 x 854 resolution and powered by a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, plus the Ascend G510 arrives running Android 4.1.1 — albeit potentially hindered by Huawei only sticking 512MB of RAM inside it..
The Panasonic Eluga marks the company’s return to the European mobile phone scene years after several years of absence, and it’s come back to us with a moderately high-spec Android model that features a rather stylish, slim case.
Sony returns with an all-new mobile design for 2012, pairing a dual-core processor with a 720p display. It’s a lovely phone, but is it enough to end our Samsung and HTC obsession?
LG’s updated Prada phone comes with an absolutely crazy black & white theme, but is it just for fashionable suit wearers who want to make themselves look a bit more interesting?
JB
/ December 6, 2011Can it really stop the missus viewing the Daily Mail App?? I do hope so…I’m loving that!
Carl
/ January 17, 2012Vodafone Guardian’s technology seems to be stolen from a small Norwegian start-up, Bipper Communications (use Google translate):
http://www.aftenposten.no/okonomi/innland/Bipper-saksoker-mobilgigant-6743272.html
Shame on Vodafone!