Upon seeing: http://lifehacker.com/5680692/tektrak-tracks-your-lost-iphone-without-the-99-mobileme-tax
I have this comment:
Who needs to ring/ping a silenced phone if you can have it call you. I
don’t think mobleme can do that. Now you can reverse ping — “hello”
“hello”…. Just holler till you find it. If it can’t call you, you
could not have pinged it anyway. (must have two phones)
You can always use iLocalis as well. It installs in jailbroken phones
and you can set it to not be removable (not just hidden)-plus then apple
can’t shut it off when it wants more memory and shuts down background
apps. It can tweet you updates and you can give expireable links out.
The only downfall to all these, is that apple does not have two tiered
security. If someone does take your phone and you have it locked. They
might as well get rid of it. I believe Android has a separate data
password. At least Sprint’s HTC 4g evo does
The nice thing with tektrak is that is shows your track on the map. Not
just where you were at giving times one at a time.
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Wish list – Oh and since all these generally only do a check every 10-20
to preserve battery, what if it were more frequent when the phone is
already being used. I mean, I didn’t know my phone was gone till it was
too late, and the “locate phone” feature turned on along with a
text/SMS/email sent when ever the wrong password entered too many times.
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Previously that day, I posted this to a group for someone…
if you are cool with jailbreaking, I love ilocalis.com
It can even send you an alert when they change out the sim card, and have it call you. Then you can hear them talking with your iphone. No denying they had it when you hear them talking.
— it does not ping, but using the call me feature, I can hear what side of the room its on via the other phone.
You can even send a link to a friend saying hey, follow me on my trip — the link can expire in 1, 3, 7, 30 days or never — or it can tweet for you. (I setup a private tweet account just for this).
I only wish apple had a two tiered lock feature like android has. The way it is now, someone sees the phone is locked, and have no reason to keep it on them. So they throw it away. With the android I can hand the phone to a friend so they can call someone, but they still don’t have access to all my confidential data.