There’s an app for that
Droid catches thieves:
Two young men from the Portland area, keen to get on the smartphone bandwagon without paying, broke in and stole a pair of Motorola Android handsets (along with other electronics) from a nearby household. What they didn’t foresee, however, was that one of the phones would have the free Lookout app, which automatically backs up all photos taken with the handset to a user-accessible server every night. So, in the midst of testing out their ill-gotten loot, the criminals provided the phone’s legitimate owner with enough visual clues for the police to swoop in and apprehend one of them.
January 13th, 2010 at 1:19 pm
You could also install gps tracker on your Droid. See http://www.instamapper.com. Its creepy and wrong when the .gov does it, but if you do for your own purposes I’m ok with it.
January 13th, 2010 at 2:18 pm
Never steal something smarter than you.