78 ANDROID ADVISOR • ISSUE 72
NordVPN offers 59
country locations with
more than 5,000 servers
who’s behind it, however, with very
few people putting a public face
on the company.
NordVPN is easily one of the
most popular services around. I still
have reservations about it as the
founders and upper management
choose to remain anonymous.
There’s no doubt, however, that it’s
a well-built service. The company
offers 59 country locations with
more than 5,000 servers. It also
promises that its service will work with Netflix. It
doesn’t offer dedicated servers for this. Instead,
Netflix is just supposed to work no matter which
server you’re on.
NordVPN also chose to give its apps a uniform
design, but interestingly the Android version is more
like the desktop than vice versa. At the top is a world
map that you can pinch to zoom to choose a server
location, but if you scroll down the app you can pick
a country location from an alphabetical list. Once you
click on a country, you can either stick with the first
server NordVPN picks for you, or scroll down another
list to choose from all possible servers in that location.
For added features, NordVPN offers malware
protection that is activated by default. It also has all
