Sponsored story: Three must-have apps for sharing, syncing and securing your smartphone

Ever since smartphones redefined how we look at phones—taking the category to full computing devices from basic phones that could merely make phone calls and send plain text messages, apps have taken centre stage. Innovative apps have taken possibilities of a smartphone to another level. From games to utilities and from hobbies to rich messaging, nowadays you will find apps for just about anything, like for sharing pictures, videos, music and there are even a few great ones for fitness tracking, healthcare and so on. Apps are what have made smartphones a near-indispensable part of our lives. In fact, Google Play, the main app store for Android features millions of apps and games, so now there are apps to help you manage your apps too. However, there is a flip side to this massive proliferation of apps of every kind – smartphone users complain of app crashes, slow start-up times, buggy installations, slower transfer/upload/download speeds and slower updates. Sounds familiar? Besides this, the problem of malware is all too prevalent on Android. But guess what? There are some great tools that allow you to share, sync and secure your content and apps incredibly well, eliminating the need to worry about these very pitfalls that come with the proliferation of apps. So now, you can simply enjoy the incredible world of apps without worrying about the many problems that apps could cause. SHAREitFirst up, SHAREit. With a transfer speed that is an incredible 40 times faster than Bluetooth, SHAREit can transfer 100Mb of data in about 24secs. With support for group sharing between five devices simultaneously, this one’s a keeper. You can transfer pictures, videos, music files, documents, contacts and even apps from another device without worrying about speed and network charges. The app itself can be shared with other devices wirelessly. Two devices with SHAREit installed can find each other automatically when within coverage range. SYNCitBesides sharing multimedia, organising their many contacts and building a strong social network is what natives of the digital generation thrive on. Sharing valuable information within your group of friends and work contacts has become a way of life for most of us. So when your apps, multimedia content, business and social contacts become the epitome of using a smartphone, there's always a worry that you will lose all of this important data due to some unforeseen circumstance. So now, there's an app that wipes all these worries away by storing your valuable data on the cloud. Say hello to SYNCit. SYNCit allows you to carry forward any data and communication from your previous phone to another device without losing any data. SMS messages and call logs, along with other media and app data, can be safely stored away for future restorations and can be restored with a single touch in a few seconds. All this without worrying about whether it is safe to leave your data on a cloud.[caption id="attachment_219222" align="alignnone" width="640"] The stylish and safe Lenovo Vibe X[/caption] SecureITTalking of safety, the Android platform has been dealing with a massive problem of malware for quite some time. Despite several security apps, spamming and privacy-intruding malware have been making their way to Android smartphones at an alarming rate.  The latest high-profile example was that of fake and very possibly dangerous apps pretending to be the popular BlackBerry Messenger app on Google Play. So, how do you keep your confidential data safe?One such app that protects your smartphone against viruses, spam and malware is SecureIT. This app has carved a niche for itself because it speeds up your smartphone, and doesn't just keep it safe . Besides securing confidential information and data, SECUREit blocks spam messages and calls, locks your device if it is stolen or lost, and also encrypts private calls and contacts. It also tracks data usage to make sure no apps are sipping more data than necessary. SECUREit contains a variety of data-protection tools to block threats. It optimises smartphone performance by closing background apps that are not in use. It also wipes the cache clean to speed up your smartphone’s processing, thus making your smartphone experience visibly smoother. You can find these critical sharing, backup and security apps pre-installed in the recently-launched Lenovo Vibe X.