Kill Switch for Android and Windows Phone

Both giants Google and Microsoft intends to incorporate the kill switch feature in their upcoming OS versions i.e. Android 4.5 and Windows Phone 8.1. As per some of the details from PC World, the kill switch feature will allow the users with stolen devices to claim their device as ‘missing’. After verification, they will able to disable it from being used. The stolen device will begin demanding some specific credentials hence restricting the access.

Apple brought Activation Lock feature in iOS 7 about a year back.  The feature has really proved a blessing in disguise for the Police. A recent report of NYTimes has confirmed the decrease in iPhone theft incidents since the feature is brought in. The anti-theft feature let you lock the phone and erase it contents so to make it useless.