To lose your telephone, even if it is a cheap Android smartphone, is always a kind of a drama. And it doesn’t matter if it was stolen or you lost it. Device can keep copies of your documents, payment information, personal photos and details. In sum, we don’t often want to give our phones to somebody even in our presence, so needless to say something about its total loss.
That is why (together with the adoption of the corresponding US law) more and more companies are trying to implement inside their own products the feature of remote phone kill. Google, Microsoft and a great number of telephone producers are among them. Qualcomm, a leader of mobile processor production, is evidently among them, too.
As SlashGear says, Snapdragon 810, the top company’s chip, is provided with SafeSwitch, Qualcomm phone remote-kill feature.
The function gives a user the opportunity to set a password, delete and restore data remotely as well as monitor its location and, if needed, kill the smartphone.