Encryption in mobile phones

Encryption in mobile phone is quite useful feature. Imagine that you make picture of your naked girlfriend and then you lost the phone. Not so good. Problem is even bigger if your phone stores pictures to SD card. The one who found the phone can simply put the SD card with the naked pictures to his laptop and happily publish them to the interned. And girlfriend is of course very happy with that ;).

When I was thinking which phone I should buy next, I was of course looking what's with the encryption. First decision would be the Android. But I found out that encryption is not so nice there. On newer phones you can turn on the encryption like it's shown on the next picture. At first you need to set the password or PIN. Take care that this process is not reversible!

This look quite OK but there is one catch. SD card is not encrypted in most cases! Only internal storage is encrypted. But some vendors (like Samsung) support SD card encryption too See. So it's needed to take care if next phone will support encryption of SD card too. Why Android doesn't support it by default? There is philosophy that SD card is removable and it should be accessible from the computer with all porno pictures too. I fully disagree with
that and most of users do too. So let's look for the next ecosystem.


What about Windows Phone? Story there is even worse! They don't have settings
for this. Encryption of internal storage can be enabled only if Exchange server says so. Wtf? Of course encryption of SD storage is not supported at all. Next!

What about the Apple IPhone? They don't support the SD card. OK one problem is solved. What about encryption? It seems that they have it See. So this would be good decision if they wouldn't cost so much.

What's next? Maybe BlackBerry? Seems they have support for the encryption See. But they again cost quite some money.

And finally the hated and dying ecosystem. The Symbian (Nokia Belle). I found out that is has surprisingly good encryption which can be easily turned on in settings.

You can separately encrypt phone, mass storage and also SD card. And you can even de-encrypt it! Wov. Not so bad for dying operating system. This smart phones are cheap too.

So Nokia Belle would be quite good decision as you can easily get the device for 200$ with good camera. Blackberry and IPhone are OK too but not so cheap. The Android is not so good as every device doesn't support SD encryption. You need to take care what do you buy! Windows Phone is even worse. They should leave the decision what to encrypt and when only to customer! OK they play enterprise business stuff ans such things but this can be done in other way.