find an iPhone?

[Keith]

A long shot, but if anyone found an iPhone on California Ave bet Admiral and Hanford, that’s where I’m 95% sure I lost mine. :(

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[clark5080]

can’t you track them via GPS and even kill them

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[Franci]

Only if you also subscribe to Apples MobileMe application.. without that not so much.

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[BigRed]

You can track them. Call AT&T. They can turn it on for you. You can then look at a map on your computer and watch it move or at least see where it is. I watched my phone drive down I-5 and into a Kent trailer park when it was stolen. Kinda cool. It gave the exact address of where it was and I was able to find out who took it.

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[rockergirl5678]

I believe if you’ve got an iphone 4 and recently upgraded your software to iOS 4.2 and set it up you can track it.

http://www.apple.com/ios/

Find My iPhone— the MobileMe feature that helps you locate your missing device and protect its data — is now free on any iPhone 4 running iOS 4.2.4 Once you set it up, you can find your lost device on a map, display a message on its screen, remotely set a passcode lock, and initiate a remote wipe to delete your data. And if you eventually find your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, you can restore everything from your last backup.

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[christopherboffoli]

I think rockergirl is correct. Find My Phone is no longer limited to just MobileMe customers. A free app is now available on the iTunes Store. Apparently there is even a way (or a work-around) which allows 3GS iPhones to be tracked as well. I’ve heard of plenty of success stories with people tracking down their phones and thieves getting arrested.

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[OwnerMary]

MobileMe costs ya — so for others — consider at least setting a passcode. I do this on all of my Apple products. What it means is that if someone tries to access your phone/pad/pod — after 10 tries it will delete everything and freeze the unit. At least that way, no one else can use it and maybe then it will be recovered. I also use MobileMe – so for $99 it will let the cops catch the person that has it. A friend of mine had his taken downtown and, with MobileMe the cops got the guy who was trying to sell it back to my friends wife for $100. The whole story was pretty funny.

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[Franci]

Okay it may finally be time to upgrade my iPhone3 to a 4. :)

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[charlabob]

I don’t mean to sound paranoid (even though I am) but does the fact that you can track your Iphone mean “they” can track you too?

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[austin]

I’m pretty sure “they” can track you with most mobile phones, I always get the bottom of the line giveaway phone and mine have had gps’s in em for years.

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[christopherboffoli]

And who exactly is THEY? The government? Or the aliens?

Yeah, I’m so very important that rooms full of government technicians are tracking me and recording my every move, from picking up my dry cleaning to buying a salted-caramel hot chocolate.

“Boffoli’s on the move again. Looks like he must be buying a pizza. Better update his permanent record.”

Actually, I think there must be an app for that. It is called iTinfoil hat.

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[KBear]

Christopher, I’m sure THEY are very interested in your illicit connections to various local bacon purveyors. THEY know where you are, where you go, and how much bacon is in your trunk. And THEY track it all through your iPhone.

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[Keith]

Yeah, I learned about Find My iPhone the day I lost it – hadn’t set it up yet on my phone. :( AT&T wasn’t much help; they said there had been no activity on the phone, but when I checked my account online there had been a number of 1-minute calls to people on my contact list. One of my pals who got a call thought I had “butt dialed” her – she just heard weird muffled noises. So it was either found by someone who didn’t know how to use it, or it was sitting in a puddle short circuit-ing.

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[JanS]

why, Christopher…do I detect snark?

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[christopherboffoli]

Jan: I just checked with the special agents, in the unmarked white van outside, who were just monitoring me while I was just cleaning up some leaves in my garden. They rolled back the tape and said they thought my post seemed more like outright sarcasm than snark. When I suggested the two words were fairly synonymous, they said it was above their pay grade and went back into the van.

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[JanS]

my snark for you for today…don’t rake the leaves until the wind stops blowing ;->

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[christopherboffoli]

That’s not snark at all. That’s sage advice.

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