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A quick, light app that ensures that you're always protected when browsing the Internet

A quick, light app that ensures that you're always protected when browsing the Internet

Vote: (108 votes)

Program license: Free

Developer: ExpressVPN

Version: 11.41.0

Works under: Android

Also available for Windows Mac

Vote:

Program license

(108 votes)

Free

Developer

Version

ExpressVPN

11.41.0

Works under:

Also available for

Android

Windows Mac

Pros

  • It's a fast, leakproof mobile data encrypter
  • Features a Smart Location panel for intelligent one-tap connections
  • Creates a private internet gateway for Android smartphone users
  • Virtualizes location data through a globally distributed server network
  • Watch Netflix content from other countries
  • An easy to configure App

Cons

  • ExpressVPN subscriptions are kind of expensive

ExpressVPN is a mobile App that creates an encrypted data pipeline between you and the internet. When you start the program, which you should when you connect your Android device to a public WiFi hotspot, no one, not even your Internet Service Provider (ISP), can penetrate that heavily encoded data stream. Happily, the data privacy service is available for download on Windows computers, plus there's also a mobile version. Let's focus on the smartphone version, as there are already plenty of reviews online for the desktop edition.

After signing up for an ExpressVPN subscription, with all of its security-oriented extra features, privacy-seeking Android users download and install the program App. There's a momentary delay while a mobile user signs into their account, after which they have full access to a global network of high-speed servers. Currently, the service provides data, location and identity masking through 160 servers, with over 90 countries acting as system gateways and anonymizer hosts. Back to the actual device being used by a roving user, the account has been configured and the initial VPN connection made. On the smartphone screen at this point, a deceptively simplified display loads on the display. A large, round connect icon awaits a finger tap. Below that button, there's a dropdown menu with a list of available gateway nations. It's from here that the phone owner connects to one of those 160 internationally distributed servers.

If someone desires a private connection to a certain country, the Smart Location feature, with its list of recommended servers, should be selected. This is the dropdown located below that big button. Thankfully, there's no need to hunt through a list of identity and data hiding servers in search of the ideal internet gateway. Instead, the software intelligently prioritizes the fastest, most reliable servers so that a tap of a preoccupied user's finger is enough to guarantee a secure international tie-in to a speedy internet portal. After all, Android users can't spare a precious minute, not if they're busy commuting to work or caught up in an interesting discussion in a favorite coffee shop. That's probably why the quick tap button and intelligently sorted international servers are considered such a convenience by active smartphone owners.

Moving on, interested parties might be wondering whether ExpressVPN includes any handy service extras. Let's take a closer look. The App is available for Android smartphone owners, but now that they have the mobile program installed, they can also use their subscription to secure other devices, including desktop computers, tablets, and home media streamers. Leakproof, the ExpressVPN encrypted data pipeline does rank highly as a superior privacy and identity anonymizing tool, so curious ISP providers, website trackers, and shady hacker types will all fail miserably if they try to take a peek into a subscriber's internet connection. Furthermore, because this service technically resides on the British Virgin Islands, a probing authority cannot gain access to a subscriber's identity, not even with a court order in hand. Between this feature and the fact that ExpressVPN servers never log or monitor users, this smartphone-tuned virtual privacy network App is well on its way to becoming a top 5 mobile identity concealment tool, although those subscriptions are just a little too expensive.

Pros

  • It's a fast, leakproof mobile data encrypter
  • Features a Smart Location panel for intelligent one-tap connections
  • Creates a private internet gateway for Android smartphone users
  • Virtualizes location data through a globally distributed server network
  • Watch Netflix content from other countries
  • An easy to configure App

Cons

  • ExpressVPN subscriptions are kind of expensive

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