This article, "Help for Lost Cell Phones" caught my eye because I was just recently looking at a free iPhone application that allows you to locate your missing phone by logging on to your account from any computer. I think this type of technology is useful because, as the article talks about, I have been in the position where I have to franticly return to a restaurant looking for my phone.
However, the two applications referred to in the article seem to be unneccessarily annoying and expensive. As I said earlier, the iPhone application I was looking at is free and it has features that I think are more useful than just emitting an alarm that demands attention. These features include haiving the option of displaying a message or playing a sound even if the phone is on silent. You can also remotely set a passcode that locks the phone. I find these to be more useful than the $79.99 and $59.95 options described in the article.
Either way, I think this type of technology is useful for the consumer and worth looking in to!
My friend actually had this app and his phone got stolen. So he calls his phone and he tells the guy to give it back to him and itll all be forgotten. The guy tells him to "expletive off" or something, so he decided to track the guy to Jackson, MS. So hes driving there, and I guess he was tracking it on whoever he was with's phone, and the tracker signal flies by them going the opposite way on the interstate. So they follow the tracker to some shady place in Hammond, I think. They want to bust in, but think better of it since it looks pretty sketchy, so they call the cops. Cops break in, get the iPhone. And then they tell him that the guy had a bunch of automatic machine guns in his trunk, so its a good thing he didnt. Just figured Id share, it seems like a good app though!
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