Review of Data Protecting Applications
Such applications as mWallet and Phone Wallet give you possibility to store your confidential information related to Bank Accounts, Credit Cards, Insurance Policies, Memberships, Passwords and more, securely. You don’t have to worry any more about your confidential information.
Here is brief information about the applications to be analyzed:
| App name | Vendor | Price | Size, Kb |
|---|---|---|---|
| Phone Wallet | SymbianGuru | Buy $9.99 | 244 |
| mWallet | Total Wireless Solutions | Buy $7.50 | 78 |
We analyzed the following list of aspects and application details:
• Installation
• Trial period
• Interface
• Settings
• Help and Support
• Application in action
• Special features
• Testing results
• Conclusion
Both applications are easily installed, so at this point you won’t have any difficulties.
| App name | Score |
|---|---|
| Phone Wallet | 10 |
| mWallet | 10 |
The trial version of Phone Wallet lasts 10 days.
There is no trial version offered in the mWallet application as it is commercial. The current review was made on basis of the mWallet free version given to us by Total Wireless Solutions company. (Many thanks!!!).
| App name | Score |
|---|---|
| Phone Wallet | 9 |
| mWallet | 2 |
Phone Wallet and mWallet applications have similar interfaces showing the list of definite folders:
Phone Wallet mWallet
The difference is that Phone Wallet application contains the list of predefined Folders every of which consists of records, meanwhile mWallet folders contain no data at the application start. Phone Wallet application is sold as ready to use.
| App name | Score |
|---|---|
| Phone Wallet | 9 |
| mWallet | 6 |
Phone Wallet offers the following list of settings:
• Change password – to change the personal password
• Icons – to select the size of the icons on the screen
• Layout – to choose the space between the letters on the screen
• Autolock after – to set time to autolock the program
• Lock in background – when being in Background Phone Wallet application autolocks after definite period of time
mWallet contains no Settings options.
| App name | Score |
|---|---|
| Phone Wallet | 9 |
| mWallet | 1 |
Phone Wallet Help file contains comprehensible information to navigate in the application; for additional questions or suggestions turn to support@symbianguru.com The support department works efficiently sending the e-mail in the course of 1 business day.
The Help file included into mWallet application will help you to orient yourself in it; support e-mail - support@twistsoft.com The answer to any question about the application is delivered by the support department in the course of about one business day.
| App name | Score |
|---|---|
| Phone Wallet | 10 |
| mWallet | 10 |
Phone Wallet – at the first application start you will be prompted to enter a password. This password is used to enter Phone Wallet and to protect the confidential information, so it should be something that can be easily remembered.
The main screen contains predefined folders; the folders can be organized into the folder tree, renamed, added new folders or deleted:
When clicking left soft key Options you will see the following list:
• New – to create new Folder or Record
• Customize – to modify the details of records and folders
• Delete – to remove the current item
• Move to folder – to move data into already existing folders
• Settings – option where user can modify Settings’ fields
• Help – contains all necessary information for navigation across the application
• About – short information about the application and developer
• Exit – to exit the application
When opening for example the Personal Info folder, you will see the following screen:
It shows the list of pre-defined records. You can change their icons, rename them, add new fields.
After filling in the needed fields of Address and Contact records the screen will look as follows:
To create a new record you have to click left soft key Options → New → Record, and choose record type depending on the data type:
Every record has its definite icon:
To create new field you have to click on Add field button, then select the type and enter name of the new field:
You can add new fields to the list of already existing fields in a current record. The number of fields in one record is unlimited.
mWallet – when entering the application you have to enter the Master Password. If you forget it you won’t be able to access your data.
The main screen has the following view:
When clicking left soft key Options you will see the following list of buttons:
• Open – to open the current folder
• Change Password – to change the password
• Help – brief info to navigate in the application
• About – short information about the application and developer
When opening any of the folders you will see “no data” text there:
Left soft key Add New allows to create new records. To do this you will have to fill in the list of needed fields and click the Save button.
Having added at least one account this screen will look as follows:
| App name | Score |
|---|---|
| Phone Wallet | 10 |
| mWallet | 7 |
Phone Wallet offers such special features as:
• New folder – to create new folder
• New field – to create new field in the record
• Change icon – to change the icon of the record or folder
• Move to folder – to move data into already existing folders
• Layout – the space between the letters on the screen can be Double Spaced or Compact
• Lock in background – when being in Background Phone Wallet application autolocks after definite period of time
Unfortunately mWallet application so far can’t offer really interesting features.
| App name | Score |
|---|---|
| Phone Wallet | 10 |
| mWallet | 1 |
Having analyzed all components and settings and given them the scores from 1 to 10, we have multiplied the scores by a corresponding importance factor in order to get the total score value of the application.
We have used the following Importance factor (IF) values:
• Installation: IF 2
• Trial period: IF 3
• Interface: IF 5
• Settings: IF 5
• Help and Support: IF 4
• Application in action: IF 10
• Special features: IF 7
The total possible score for an application would be 360 points.
Multiplying the score by Importance factors we have got the following table:
| Phone Wallet | mWallet | |
|---|---|---|
| Installation | 20 | 20 |
| Trial period | 27 | 6 |
| Interface | 45 | 30 |
| Settings | 45 | 5 |
| Help/Support | 40 | 40 |
| Application in action | 100 | 70 |
| Special features | 70 | 7 |
| Total | 347 | 178 |
Test winner according to the overall application test is Phone Wallet from SymbianGuru.
Phone Wallet is a worthy winner for the convenient and very flexible interface, interesting settings which user can modify to ones own wishes and considerable list of special features. You can easily trust your confidential information to the application which uses strong encryption after which data become unavailable even after making a disk dump.
The mWallet application is also not bad, but it suggests users less functions and less flexibility in data organizing. Still mWallet performs its main function - data protection.