On Nov 9, 2007 9:38 AM, AVee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Which will only work when the thief is friendly enough to turn the phone on > with the same sim-card installed, otherwise, what number would you text to? > I'm guessing most GSM thiefs are smart enough to remove the SIM first.
You don't know the common street person. Atleast here in the USA where GSM is a bit of a nonstandard. I worked at Radio Shack for 4 years, and the majority of the customerbase I sold them to really had no clue about how gsm worked or what the card was for. Some enterprising people might, but thats covered by the next bit > This does lead to another intresting angle, you could make the phone send it's > location when the SIM card is changed. I doubt you will drain the battery > very fast when you only send a location every 10 minutes or so. That should > not make a huge difference on battery consumption, but be enough to retrieve > it. Now this is a great idea. Have it automatically go into stolen mode if the sim changes. I honestly didn't think about that one. Mike _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
