We all know how annoying it to lose your mobile phone, especially if you never get a round of copying these valuable contacts. But with the area becoming ubiquitous, there is no way to track down lost or stolen mobile phone?

This was exactly what the San Francisco resident Nick Strada thoughts when he realized he left his Nokia E71 in the rear of the cabin: it would have enabled Google’s Latitude of service a few days before, so of course he can monitor tube?

When he logged on the network Latitude, he was surprised to see my phone floating around good 5000 kilometers, in the heart of Boston. In the end, the phone battery died, taking with him his location.

Of course, there is some potential here to get help or at least protect, stolen phones?

Thousands of application developers began to bend their creative muscles, and some of them have already begun to address this problem.

Apple Store in the App Invites Password trap, which is trying to locate the thief, while luring them with false personal information, while the optimistic owner of the information makes it easier to be a good soul, who happens to find your phone to return it to you.

Meanwhile, GPS Tracker thief will send a message to the discrete location of the phone if the thief happens to activate it.

About Google Android platform has a lot of inspiration for tracking a stolen phone, which could be “connected” to the latitude. Textecution designed to stop drivers texting, and disconnect the phone if it is moving faster than 16 km / h. Can a new application to turn off all phones, if it takes more than 8kilometres of the location of your house?

Or perhaps Latitude regular preparedness communications can be transformed remotely, so that your thief is fired in infuriating signals every 15 seconds?

Or how simple remote gateway, which makes the phone unusable? More serious consequences, the more you have to trust the application. Mr. Strada fantasies about mobile remote detonator may be taking things a bit far, but it is exciting creative challenges, and for the developer that a crack, it can be a lucrative business.

And yet you know where your phone, you still end up a more practical problem: how do you confront the thief? We do not know how seriously the police take a GPS “evidence” so that you can just borrow some muscle.