Iphone 4 stolen

waynegohl said:
Is there a way that the camera feature can be activated remotely on a stolen phone so as to take a photo of the thief or surroundings and send it to the cloud but with that phones unique code? If someone steals a camera phone they will at some stage take a picture and if that picture was tagged with the phones unique code then it might be traced even if the phone has been "cleaned" up.
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With Android yes, you can remotely wipe, access features like cameras, microphones, gps, send messages to the phone etc.
 
Whether iPhone runs android or not is not the point. If the technology is available then use it. If android has it why not apple then, surely they have or can come up with a similar thing. School laptops in America can be switched on remotely and the camera can be activated so why not camera phones?
 
waynegohl said:
Whether iPhone runs android or not is not the point. If the technology is available then use it. If android has it why not apple then, surely they have or can come up with a similar thing. School laptops in America can be switched on remotely and the camera can be activated so why not camera phones?
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that wasn't my point but yes
 
I've set iCloud service to trace my iPhone / iPad / Macbook. This is a real nice feature for use in the US but think of the practical implication of using this in SA.

Firstly lets assume the best case scenario. You trace your phone to a location slap bang in the middle of Khayalitsha (not a racist connotation here, but just a practical example of a potential problem with informal addresses). Good luck finding the correct shack to go to and raid it for your iPhone. Imagine the scenes in District 9...

And on that point.... what about the practical implications of an iPhone geek raiding a shack, a home in a housing complex or an entire block of flats in Yeoville, JHB? I can't see it happening. But wait, we have a a police force. They will raid the shack, housing complex or block of flats in Yeoville for me, right? I have constitutional rights, right? Wrong. The murders, rapes and serious commercial crimes keps our police force too busy to bother to find your iPhone. A harsh reality of life in Africa.

The most practical use I have had from the find my device feature is finding my car at Canal Walk by tracing the iPad I had in my laptop bag in the boot. (I forgot where my wife parked.)
 
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truth to be told, noone ever actually has their phone stolen. more like "left it on the bar" :)
 
If I am not mistaken, you have to have your phone blacklisted with all services providers in the country, if you are with Vodacom for example and your phone is stolen, you report it to Vodacom, they blacklist it. However from what I understand, if the person who stole your phone puts in a cell c, mtn or 8 ta card, it will work.
 
oom said:
If I am not mistaken, you have to have your phone blacklisted with all services providers in the country, if you are with Vodacom for example and your phone is stolen, you report it to Vodacom, they blacklist it. However from what I understand, if the person who stole your phone puts in a cell c, mtn or 8 ta card, it will work.
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Once blacklisted the phone shouldn't work on any of the local networks.
 
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