I love the google maps mobile app and its 'My Location' feature - hats off to the innovators at google!
I have an interesting idea . Here are the factors:
1. I known MANY people who have lost their expensive Blackberrys etc
2. On a Blackberry and many new handhelds, where google map is installed; it can run in the background.
3. My Location feature can track my phone down to the nearest 1000m radius, even if the phone does not have GPS capability!!! ('... takes information broadcast from mobile towers near you to approximate your current location on the map to find your location' - whoa!)
4. Most people already have a google account - so they could sign-in to 'their' google maps.
Put all these ingredients together and viola! you have a lost phone tracker!
In case someone who uses google maps on the phone (signed in using google sign-on) and accepts their 'My Location' to be archived; he could be log in to google maps from any computer and that would tell him (and law enforcement, if required) a good approximation to catch the culprit (or simply find the phone - that you might have forgotten at a restaurant).
I really wish Google can get this running (I had made this post on their forum quite some time back) and I can ensure they'll have thousands of happy customers.
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