Excessive?
Three law enforcement agencies and a helicopter search to locate a stolen droid phone. And the thief gets away. I just spend the extra $3 a month for the insurance.
If only there was another way to locate smart phones?
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October 7th, 2010 at 9:31 am
Mine’s set to flip the GPS on if I call it from any of my other phone numbers. Haven’t had to use it yet.
October 7th, 2010 at 9:35 am
Your tax dollars at work!
October 7th, 2010 at 9:58 am
Sprint has a “family location” service that I can turn on by logging into my account from any computer. It lets me view my phone’s location from the GPS, and even plots it on a map.
Kind of scary, if you think about it. OTOH, I do have to log in with the same security used when I want to change my plan or add features, so it’s fairly well protected (from anyone but Sprint or the .gov, anyway).
October 7th, 2010 at 9:58 am
Link was broken for me?
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_16264497?nclick_check=1
October 7th, 2010 at 10:08 am
Doesnt the Lookout security app provide a way to search for the phone from a home PC?
October 7th, 2010 at 11:07 am
I’ve got a program on mine called Smrtguard. It can track, monitor, and even lock the phone from a PC.
October 7th, 2010 at 12:11 pm
http://www.absolute.com/en/products/computrace/features.aspx#geo
Computrace will give geolocation on Blackberry and WinMobile phones
October 7th, 2010 at 12:21 pm
October 7th, 2010 at 12:23 pm
Better
October 7th, 2010 at 12:55 pm
With Apple’s Mobile Me I can see where my phone is on a map, send a message to the screen, lock it, or remotely wipe the entire phone.
I’d like the ability to remotely detonate it in the pocket of the thief, but the options I have are still pretty good 🙂
October 7th, 2010 at 1:30 pm
I use Lookout. It works and it’s free.
http://www.mylookout.com/m/android
October 7th, 2010 at 3:18 pm
Microsoft has remote find, lock, and wipe available for their smart phones too.
I wrote some of the code used for the location capability…
October 7th, 2010 at 4:03 pm
Mobile defense and wavesecure both are droid locating apps. Can pull your phones location up from any computer with web access.
October 7th, 2010 at 4:51 pm
Of course the thief could just take the battery out and solder the thing into a can until he can reprogram it. Sounds like more work than actually working for enough money to buy one, though.
October 7th, 2010 at 4:57 pm
I use lookout too. Antivirus, data backup (contacts, calls and pictures), and locator.
The locator can tell you on a map where your phone is and when you get near where it is supposed to be, you can activate a siren so that your phone will start making loud noises so you can find it.
October 7th, 2010 at 6:34 pm
I just installed http://preyproject.com/ which a coworker recommended. I haven’t really played with it much yet, but it’ll turn on the gps and tell you where it is if you send it a special text message or mark it as missing on their web site. You can also set it to start notifying if someone puts a different sim card in your cell phone.
October 7th, 2010 at 8:11 pm
While there are a number of methods to pursue this, the Find app comes to mind, it did occur to me that one could write an app to e-mail senior government officials and make statements that might be misinterpreted.