When I bought my first and only Android device---a tablet---about a year ago, I set up the lock screen with a password right away. I intended to do the same with my phone, but I'm reconsidering.
I work at home and spend a lot of time on the computer. Therefore, I don't see myself doing any banking or other confidential/financial tasks on my phone. As far as I can anticipate now, I will be emailing, texting, phoning, and browsing the web for all sorts of reasons---weather, road conditions, maps, and areas of local interest and/or restaurants, as well as just looking up information for various other reasons. I have set up a new gmail account that will be strictly for personal use, not business and nothing confidential. I can't think of anything that would be vulnerable in this case. The worst case scenario that I can imagine would be someone sending emails or texts to people on my contact list pretending to be me. While that could be a nuisance, what long lasting harm would be done?
Am I missing something? I tend to be overly cautious in most matters, but I'm thinking I might enjoy not having to enter a password every time the screen has turned off.
I work at home and spend a lot of time on the computer. Therefore, I don't see myself doing any banking or other confidential/financial tasks on my phone. As far as I can anticipate now, I will be emailing, texting, phoning, and browsing the web for all sorts of reasons---weather, road conditions, maps, and areas of local interest and/or restaurants, as well as just looking up information for various other reasons. I have set up a new gmail account that will be strictly for personal use, not business and nothing confidential. I can't think of anything that would be vulnerable in this case. The worst case scenario that I can imagine would be someone sending emails or texts to people on my contact list pretending to be me. While that could be a nuisance, what long lasting harm would be done?
Am I missing something? I tend to be overly cautious in most matters, but I'm thinking I might enjoy not having to enter a password every time the screen has turned off.