Comments on: My Phone Knows Everything About Me & That Worries Me http://thesymbianblog.com/2008/10/13/my-phone-knows-everything-about-me-that-worries-me/ All things symbian and then some more! Sat, 20 Mar 2010 09:15:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: decoder http://thesymbianblog.com/2008/10/13/my-phone-knows-everything-about-me-that-worries-me/comment-page-1/#comment-2810 decoder Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:27:08 +0000 http://thesymbianblog.com/?p=729#comment-2810 Oops I broke the link to <a href="http://www.decoder.com.au/2008/09/18/phonebak-for-mobile-phones-protect-your-handset-and-help-catch-a-thief/" rel="nofollow">PhoneBak</a>. Sorry! Oops I broke the link to PhoneBak.

Sorry!

]]> By: decoder http://thesymbianblog.com/2008/10/13/my-phone-knows-everything-about-me-that-worries-me/comment-page-1/#comment-2809 decoder Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:08:39 +0000 http://thesymbianblog.com/?p=729#comment-2809 Loosing your phone with all of your personal, private and important information is a horrible experience. I remember my days as a mobile phone salesman, and every single day would see at least 1 or 2 people coming to my store distraught at having lost their phone or worse had it stolen. There are a number of proactive solutions out there to help retrieve a stolen handset which are quite good. I highly recommend PhoneBak </a> which will send an sms containing the thief's mobile number, cell ID and even GPS location should they swap out your SIM for their own. Or <a href="http://www.decoder.com.au/2008/10/03/mobileshield-v10-help-track-down-mobile-phone-thieves/" title="MobileShield v1.0 - Help track down mobile phone thieves" rel="nofollow">MobileShield</a> which does a similar thing only without the GPS location. Personally I think more needs to be done on a Mobile Carrier and Handset manufacturer level to help prevent mobile phone theft and catch the thieves. <a href="http://www.decoder.com.au/2008/08/06/mobile-phone-theft-what-can-be-done/" rel="nofollow">I have an open discussion on this topic running here.</a> Loosing your phone with all of your personal, private and important information is a horrible experience. I remember my days as a mobile phone salesman, and every single day would see at least 1 or 2 people coming to my store distraught at having lost their phone or worse had it stolen.

There are a number of proactive solutions out there to help retrieve a stolen handset which are quite good.

I highly recommend PhoneBak which will send an sms containing the thief’s mobile number, cell ID and even GPS location should they swap out your SIM for their own.

Or MobileShield which does a similar thing only without the GPS location.

Personally I think more needs to be done on a Mobile Carrier and Handset manufacturer level to help prevent mobile phone theft and catch the thieves. I have an open discussion on this topic running here.

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