BlackBerry Protect protects (you guessed it) your BlackBerry

You might expect a product with as much enterprise street cred as BlackBerry to offer the best lineup of options for dealing with a lost or stolen phone, but not quite -- devices in a controlled BES environment can be wiped from afar, but for non-enterprise consumers, the options are a little more limited. That's where RIM's new BlackBerry Protect software comes into play, combining a host of services into one product; on top of being able to remotely message, lock, and wipe a misplaced phone, you can locate it on a map and take regularly-scheduled wireless backups that make replacing the handset (if it comes to that) as painless as possible. It's going into an invite-only beta period later this week, after which it'll move to a wider-scale public beta "later this year" at no charge. Considering that MobileMe's similarly-styled features do less than this for $100 annually, the word "free" has an especially sweet ring to it, doesn't it?

[benjgvps Posted Jul 12th 2010 10:26PM]

This is great news, though I already have a program that does most of this already (Wheres My Phone Pro) and has the advantage of doing it through SMS and email, rather than depending on a carrier or something.

[iamajim Posted Jul 12th 2010 11:28PM]

this is way cool; nowadays losing your phone is like losing your wallet, especially if it's a bb.

[SuperGeek1996 Posted Jul 13th 2010 12:20AM]

That's awesome. I'm thinkin ditch the droid and go blackberry. Haha

[carlosmahnz Posted Jul 21st 2010 9:09PM]

Cool