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Smart phones are expensive and easily resalable bits of modern technology and as such, one should always be aware that smart phone theft is pretty high –simply leaving the phone lying around is a sure way to get unsavory characters interested in it. There is also much to lose as well. Aside from the fact that being stolen from can be emotionally scarring and the direct financial loss will surely affect you, there is also a matter of privacy that should not be forgotten.

Sure, there are plenty of semi-obvious things that you would not want exposed to the public –and most of that may often include entire albums of the most ‘candid’ shots you have taking with your smart phone’s five or eight mega pixel camera (or recorded in 720p HD). But beyond those embarrassing pictures of that ski trip that had you slamming face first into another skier on the slopes, there are a lot of other things to be worried about.

First off, smart phone information is a stalker’s paradise. It has information on who your friends are, what your last online or SMS communications were, where you’ve been, where you will go and for those who update the phone’s organizer function, what your plans for the rest of the week is.

GPS and location based apps keep a record of what routes you take and where you spend most of your time in. Even if you live your life as an open faced book with the people around you, being exposed to such as high degree is never a good idea. Even worse is the fact that smart phones often contain very sensitive information; banking and financial data is also stored in the smart phones of some folks.

From credit information to your PayPal account, a single online transaction on the smart phone will leave a trace of your financial data on the device.

One of the best things about smart phones is that they allow users to consolidate various accounts online into a single inbox and be able to check all their emails, private messages, instant messages and other details in a single threaded inbox view.

Push email has really changed the way we access information. However, most folks tend for forget that one other feature that consolidation does is to bring together one’s address book; which leads us to the topic at hand, be careful when sending messages to everyone, because you can never really tell who everyone is.

Also, judging by the number of incredibly embarrassing videos that folks tend to self upload in the first place, it seems that being able to use media sharing sites while being intoxicated is not much difficult so it might be an idea to leave your shiny new Galaxy S at home if you’re planning a big night out!

So yes, be careful with the information you obtain at any given moment, with smart phone technology able to access the web easily and instantly, it would be all too easy to accidentally send the wrong things to the wrong people. According to recent reports, the most likely possibility of an office blunder comes in the form of miss-sent email messages.

Of course, the worst part is accidentally writing an email and sending it without thinking about the consequence. Unlike in desktop environments where there are so many things that would prevent a person from being active. Smart phone access is instantaneous and quite unforgiving considering the fact that it will not give users the time to think about whether they will send an email or not.

According to the study, over 1/4 of men are reported to have sent emails that they regret while about 17 percent of women have confessed that they sent an angry email all too soon. In any case, avoiding becoming part of the group is as simple taking the time to decide what you really want to write in the first place.

It seems that fate is one the side of Korean manufacturer Samsung. According to the most recent reports, the issue with the micro SD card that was infected with Trojan virus software is confirmed to be present only in Germany. Since the virus is loaded in the micro SD card and not the phone itself, UK is safe from the virus scare. New buyers of the Wave are now being advised to not worry about the handset’s status as the Bada smart phone is safe from infection.

This news update comes as a major source of relief for many local retailers of the Samsung Wave smart phone. Many have already started marketing the device, touting its impressive touch screen display, the new Bada operating system and the 1GHz CPU. The announcement of a virus present in the German model immediately put a large big red flag on Samsung’s Bada debut device –not exactly the best kind of marketing for a first time phone.

Despite the fact that UK buyers have nothing to worry, people are being advised that if they have bought a Wave smart phone Germany (or had one shipped to the UK), it is best to not use the micro SD card unless it is cleaned from malware.

Samsung has refused to comment as to why the micro SD card they have bundled with the German package is infected with a virus, but many suspects that the issue may have come from the actual SD card manufacturers themselves. So far, there is no confirmation yet on what brand of cards are being used.

This event also serves as a warning for many other phone manufacturers –with many devices being reliant on the extra storage provided by SD cards and phone packages being more appealing with bundled extras, it would be nice to secure quality of accessories such as these cards in order to prevent more events like this.