Quote from: AndreasK on July 26, 2016, 09:40:09 AM

Quote from: WaterLooDown on July 24, 2016, 03:59:05 PM

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I got a new user into Gulden from Germany, was easy when showing him the android wallet. I tested the android wallet restore from the backup phrase and it worked good, it feels as safe as the desktop wallets but am I right or is the desktop wallets safer?

The Android wallet with password is fully encrypted so is pretty safe (as long as you store/copy the recovery phrase in a sensible way that it won't be compromised). For the most part they are equivalent in terms of security.

The main difference I guess, is whether your desktop computer or Android phone are more likely to be compromised by hostile software, as this would be the only threat to either, from this perspective it depends a lot on usage patterns (whether the Android phone is rooted) what sort of apps you install on it etc.
As a general rule of thumb I'd say on average that the average desktop computer is more secure than the average mobile phone. For a reasonable amount of coins I'd not be too concerned, if I were storing my life savings then perhaps it would be a bit more concerning.