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- mstachiw, on 04/02/2009, -2/+52How about one that calls the fire dept if the battery explodes
- megamod, on 04/02/2009, -0/+41Give it little legs so it can find its way back to me =)
- FrostyFire, on 04/02/2009, -4/+31This is going to turn into madness. Many people are going to claim their phone was stolen when they just LOST it. Cops have better things to do.
- BrendanSheehan, on 04/02/2009, -2/+26iLegs®
- wisedude, on 04/03/2009, -2/+26Hidden feature: Calls the cops when you jailbreak!
- thatoneguydunno, on 04/02/2009, -2/+25Those turn-by-turn directions will be needed when the iPhone is trying to explain the Officers how to get there.
- inactive, on 04/03/2009, -2/+17so just make it so you can get the location. If stolen, call the cops.If lost, go find it.
- roxgod666, on 04/03/2009, -4/+18Like what? All these suburban cops are bored, which is why they beat the ***** out of random civilians.
- mark076h, on 04/03/2009, -0/+13Why dont they just make it so once a cell phone is reported stolen i can no longer work, give every phone something similar to a MAC address and once the carrier gets a report that your phone is stolen that phone can no longer be used on the network. If something like this was standard on all phones wont people stop stealing them?
- ryrocker, on 04/03/2009, -3/+15
My uncle recently got his iphone stolen, but they used the gps tech on it and found the dude and arrested him at him home. He is being charged with a felony because of the worth of the phone. - davecachia, on 04/03/2009, -0/+10Blackberrys have that system.
- harvinator24, on 04/03/2009, -0/+10I dugg you up but the phone doesn't use the sim card store information except the actual number of the phone. Once its turned back on the gps is still going to kick in. I would assume that the gps unit has a specific number.
What is annoying though is how the cellphone companies do not seem to give a ***** when a phone is stolen because they know they are just going to be making money on a new phone. - ohplease, on 04/03/2009, -2/+9Windows Mobile phones already have plenty of software available that will email or text your phone's gps coordinates when you send it a specific text message. Upcoming versions will send you a picture from your camera and give you live position tracking.
Glad to see Apple's catching up to last year's mobile software. - inactive, on 04/03/2009, -1/+8What happens when iphone becomes self-aware?
- MacMan88, on 04/03/2009, -0/+6and give ***** traffic tickets
- RomeyRome, on 04/03/2009, -0/+5Then you become obsolete. It will throw you away once a new you comes out.
- inactive, on 04/03/2009, -0/+5An iphone costs $800 to replace.
If someone stole your wallet with $800 in it, would you call the police? - Rogor, on 04/03/2009, -0/+4No the criminal who stole it has "privacy rights" on his new phone contract so the police cannot do anything despite the phone company knowing exactly who is using your phone. Civil liberties groups will rape you again if you try anything so shut up.
- briansalo, on 04/03/2009, -3/+7*take out SIM card*
*power off device*
done - harvinator24, on 04/03/2009, -1/+5I always feel bad when people walk into my store and have to buy a new iphone because some douch bag stole their phone. Whats sucks even more is that they have to pay the $399/$499 price.
Hopefully this will help a few people out maybe even arrest a few douche bags who steal from the average joe. - bgmncwj, on 04/03/2009, -0/+4Smartphone Tracker is pretty decent..
http://smartphonetracker.blogspot.com/ - Wootstapler, on 04/03/2009, -0/+4That's one dumbass robber if he didn't realize that he shouldn't use the same SIM Card.
- spookyttws, on 04/03/2009, -1/+5I would love to be able to call a number, enter my iphone's phone number (plus a password/code), and have the phone lock out any usage and turn on GPS. Then have a website tracking the phone. I really like my iPhone and wouldn't really hesitate to confront the person who stole it. I would of course wear a large machete or samurai sword, just for the meeting to have more impact.
- lucian303, on 04/03/2009, -0/+4yeah? you mean like stopping drive by shootings and *****? ... oh wait they're not doing that. might as well recover your iphone .. or any other phone... nwa said ***** the police ... now i'm in jail
- ElRayQuieres, on 04/03/2009, -0/+3If he already knew how, he would've patented it already.
- Rogor, on 04/03/2009, -2/+5Yep mobiles phones have always had unique id's and the telecommunications companies know exactly which phones have been stolen and re registered and by who, what stops the police retrieving stolen phones even when the owner has been violently assulted for the phone is US civil liberties groups screaming about the "privacy" rights on the criminals new phone contracts. Not here in Hong Kong however they wouldnt let the law overtake common sense.
- SteveMax, on 04/03/2009, -0/+3A good idea is to always have something like:
http://www.symbianguru.com/phone-guardian-s60-3.ht ...
This is for Symbian S60, but I'm sure there are similar programs for every smartphone OS out there. It sends an SMS to two different phones when a different SIM card is inserted, with the number of the new card and its current location. It can also send those SMSs whenever you message it with a specially formatted SMS. Another security feature is to start an alarm, locking down the device until a password defined by you is entered, when any of the conditions above happen. It doesn't appear in the menu, runs automatically on the background and goes to front when you dial a secret number you defined, and cannot be uninstalled without the password.
This way, you can track down the phone even if it has a different SIM inserted, and there is no plausible way that someone will use the phone without you knowing about it. - drmobutu, on 04/03/2009, -0/+3It sells your organs...
- digitalArtform, on 04/03/2009, -0/+3"which could in turn lead to a police officer being dispatched to the current location of the device."
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You can call the cops in person on 911 while in the process of being assaulted and they won't necessarily show. - braddaniels, on 04/03/2009, -0/+3To all users of expensive smart phones:
I bought an iPhone about a year ago and it was stolen out of my car 10 days later (along with a 30 gig iPod). UGH! I wanted to curb-stomp whoever did it! Unfortunately for me, my first reaction was to call AT&T and report it stolen.
After following a touch-tone menu, "Press 4 to report your phone lost or stolen."
I pressed four: "Thank you, your phone has now been deactivated."
I then called the police station to report it stolen. When an officer arrives the first question he asked is whether I had called the phone company yet.
Apparently if your cell phone is stolen, when it's on it gives off a ping that my local police force would've been able to use to track down the location of the thing and arrest the damn bastards that stole my phone. Calling AT&T pretty much annihilated any chance of me getting my phone back (short of it appearing in a pawn shop). - pikelet, on 04/03/2009, -0/+3That's what the IMEI number is for. That's why you're supposed to write it down and keep it somewhere. However I do believe once an IMEI is blacklisted on a network they can't undo that, so don't get it blacklisted until you are sure it is not coming back.
- pingveno, on 04/03/2009, -0/+3My laptop had a similar piece of software. If it got stolen I could just go to a web site, activate some system (I don't know how it works), and the laptop starts giving location information to the company that provides the service. They would then work with police to track down the laptop.
I use the past tense because I let the service expire. It doesn't sound very effective, the renewal cost is a big chunk of the the market value of my laptop, and I am borderline paranoid about protecting the laptop. - voteme4pope, on 04/03/2009, -0/+3Don't need police, get it your self allot more fun.
- yacks, on 04/03/2009, -0/+3second smaller battery? or maybe a smaller phone with a seperate battery inside?
- lucian303, on 04/03/2009, -0/+2ha ha... i got my phone stolen in person, 2 mins later i flag a cop car ... know what they tell me? go home ... yeah like the ***** cops will do ***** about this... if my ankle hadn't been sprained ... well that ***** might be dead ... lucky for him
- saisumimen, on 04/03/2009, -0/+2And gives them your exact location... +/- 20 meters ;p
- rebelscribe, on 04/03/2009, -1/+3The reason I'm digging this, but don't have an iPhone, is because even tho it's an "iPhone" thing, there will be a cheaper, better knock off in the BlackBerry App Store a week later.
- lucian303, on 04/03/2009, -0/+2goddamn right
- FasmTrout, on 04/03/2009, -0/+2*****
- inactive, on 04/03/2009, -1/+3If you had $800 stolen from you would you call the police?
The iPhone costs $800 to replace.
The police's job is to keep you and your stuff safe, so how does this not concern the police? - inactive, on 04/07/2009, -0/+1You know, they had a bunch of $0 phones at my local wireless store.
I just got a huge box of them.
/s - l800LEMMINGS, on 04/04/2009, -0/+1I totally agree that it is their job and it's something they should do but in both cases they would view it as a waste of their time and not pursue it
- imronburgundy83, on 04/03/2009, -0/+1Wow, that's the stupidest thing I've ever seen. That's worse than using police to arrest people who possess weed.
- benplaut, on 04/03/2009, -1/+2Why have the phone disable itself? That's just a warning to the thief...
- imronburgundy83, on 04/03/2009, -0/+1Dugg for assuming the thief rides the bus. Haha.
- benitojuarez, on 04/03/2009, -0/+1I love sprite terminator, its awesome It lets me allow only certain numbers to query my phone itll map the gps to google maps or live earth whichever you choose, it dumps the call logs lets you wipe just the storeage card or just the device, hard reset etc. It blocks the text from coming through too so if its ever stolen the theif wont even see the text looking for gps info.
http://www.spritesoftware.com/products/sprite-term ... - lucian303, on 04/03/2009, -1/+2but it doesn't help w/ recovering your bb
- lucian303, on 04/03/2009, -0/+1***** a right... or they'll show even before 911 just randomly somtimes and tell you to go home... this isn't a crime ... like your car being broken into is not a serious crime... call back on monday
- MerchantofPanic, on 04/03/2009, -0/+1The user runs as fast as they can, at which point a small turbine pops down from the underbelly of the phone. The passing breeze turns a small propeller attached to the turbine which provides just enough current to cause the turbine to also explode.
- Awezing, on 04/03/2009, -5/+6How would it do that, if it didn't have a battery?
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