New Security Features For Business of Android 5 Lollipop
Android has reached version 5.0, suggestively named Lollipop as the previous patterns, offering an improvement experience for individual users, as well as businesses. The sweetness of the recent Android consists in a major expansion of interactivity between the smart devices that an user implies daily, fluid experience, as well as a manageable power usage.
Businesses need to be supported by a constant and reliable connection between small and big devices, starting with your smartphone and including your TV or even your car. The major update is related to Android TV feature, personalizing your experience on Youtube or any other TV app. An user can quickly browse and stream his/her favorite content. The improvement is available too for gaming apps, performed on smart TVs or Android consoles.
Speed is doubled a fluid performance, able to intuitively react to any command. Emails that were previously read in an uncomfortable position, can now be easily lectured in any angle implied by user. In addition, the visual experience was enhanced with realistic colors. Similarly, the multimedia performance will delight users due to latest updates: multi-channel audio and video streaming and full resolution for picture frames.
Android-based devices are one of the bigger consumers of battery lifetime, due to the multiple and complex activities performance by applications. In order to avoid a premature consumption of battery, the user of Lollipop can effectively monitor its usage, being informed about the necessity of charging and the approximate time needed to perform it.
In terms of communication, Lollipop relies on an improved version of Swype keyboard, in order to support an user`s needs to type quickly and efficiently. The new keyboard reacts to long pressing, providing also inputs for numbers and symbols, providing a similar experience to the traditional typing on desktops.
Fingerprint scanner was a feature that was lately introduced for few Android devices, raising the costs of production. Lollipop counterbalances this perspective, by adding cheap solutions, that won`t affect the cost of Android gadgets. Trusted Places is one of the enhancements, designing particular locations for an user such as home or office, where the GPS sensor of the device automatically bypass, in order to lock or unlock it. In addition, Trusted Devices allows an user to link a device to another Bluetooth one, for example the smartphone is connected to the notebook used, being automatically bypassed whenever that Bluetooth device is close, as anticipation sign of user`s desire to use them simultaneously.
In terms of security, Lollipop implemented what was missing to the other versions of Android: the proper selection of notifications and calls. The owner of an Android device can directly view and respond to messages from lock screen, since those notifications are sensitive to any command. A user can quickly choose through Priority mode what kind of messages he/she will receive, as well as the interactions with certain persons. In addition, Priority mode can also schedule the time when a user can receive notifications or call from a particular person. The idea isn`t new, being previously implemented by iOS 8, yet Lollipop provides an improved level of control. For example, some individual apps are allowed to alert you, whether you are on Do Not Disturb mode, since the user granted them this right. Lollipop managed to achieve this purpose, since it`s a new perspective of operating system comparing with the previous versions. Instead of granting complete access to certain apps, Lollipop is scheduled to offer a small proportion of gadget`s data, in order to protect your privacy. Naturally Chrome and third-party programs associated with Google`s browser are considered positively harmless, opening a debate concerning Google`s intentions related to the Lollipop`s efficiency.
Another essential security feature by Lollipop is the guest sharing, available in a secure mode. A user can create multiple accounts through Android Smart Lock for friends, in order to allow them log in to his/her device or pairing it with another one. Although they are connected in a network, only the owner of the device can access the content of the Android-based unit. It`s also possible to use another Android device, running Lollipop, to access your personal smartphone forgotten at home, by connecting to your accounts. Surprisingly, Smart Lock can solve a difficult dilemma of Android users, such an unlocking a smartphone by PIN or password. Instead of losing time with the effective introduction of the security elements, which might block if aren`t correctly introduced, Android`s function presumes that an user can unlock any device through Bluetooth pairing or NFC.
The issue of stolen or lost devices received a solution through the automatic encryption included in every Lollipop-based gadget. Once an user notices that his/her device is stolen or lost, he can preset or implement via Smart Lock the factory reset protection, which renders it practically unusable This improvement, along with Smart Lock, is a major opportunity for users willing to separate their private life from professional activity. Having multiple user accounts to use, a user can select to use a work-related profile, either the smartphone is nearby or in a different location, in order to focus on the suite of activities dedicated to that profile.
The Android universe has become the target of recurrent malware, causing essential vulnerabilities. SELinux, a full encryption feature, is Lollipop`s update concerning advanced protection against the latest potential dangers. A user can monitor in real time the security level of his/her device and interfere, by altering the parameters of any application, in order to strengthen its security.
All in all, Lollipop brought essential updates, to improve the global experience of any Android user. Smart Lock or Factory Reset Protection are powerful tools to enhance individual security, yet Android didn`t completely enhance the global risks associated with the daily imply of smart devices. For the moment, adware and malware are still able to reach user`s data and use it, the user being sometimes unaware about it, since he`s not requested to selectively offer or deny permission to the apps installed.
