BlackBerry Protect, RIM’s free add-on app for backing up your BlackBerry data online, has finally been made available to users in the Asia-Pacific region, which includes all us Indians. BlackBerry Protect offers features very necessary in this day and age for all smartphones and mobile devices – it backs up all your contacts, messages and other data online in the cloud, it lets you locate your lost phone on a map so you can go get it back and, in case you can’t get to it, it also lets you wipe the device clean of all the data, so the thief has no access to it.

Another interesting feature of BlackBerry Protect is with switching devices. Previously, if you wanted to switch from one BlackBerry to another, you’d have to use the BlackBerry Desktop Software to read data from the old device and put it on the new one. If you lose your old BlackBerry, then the device switch isn’t possible unless you have a local backup and face it – not all of us are really very punctual with those! With BlackBerry Protect, since all your data is backed up in the cloud on a daily basis, you can simply use BDS to restore that onto your new device and continue on from exactly where you lost the phone. Call it Remote Device Switch, if you will!

Source: OnlyGizmos (blog)