Best or most used lost/stolen phone recovery app?
- After buying an app that helps locate a lost or stolen phone, I did a search for more similar apps and came across quite a few of them. A lot actually.
I'm trying to figure out which is the best or even most used phone recovery app. So let's have a vote. Post which one you use, or which one you believe is the best and state the reason why.
Right now I'm using "Wheres My Phone", only because it was the first phone recovery app I came across and bought it right away because of the many phones I've lost. Then I saw the e-GPS a best seller here on crackberry.com. Most have all the same general features, some have more or less. I wish it was possible to pick and pull features from these apps to make a super phone recovery app, haha.
Here's a list of lost/stolen phone recovery apps, this is just the few I came across.
Where's My Phone
e-GPS
BlackBerry ER--Recover Your Stolen BlackBerry
Berry Locator
BuddyGuard
Roblock Anti Theft Recovery
Tyfish Safe and Secure
Cell Seeker
Guppa
PhoneBasics
e-Mobile GPS FindMe
List more if you know any more. But lets take a vote and see which one is the best.02-23-10 12:07 PMLike 0 - I also chose "Where's My Phone". I read the descriptions of several on your list, and I just liked their approach the best. A couple of things I like are the ability to communicate with your BB from any email account, and the ability to change the callback number.
Coincidentally, I sent an email to their support this morning and I was quite pleased with the response. And they told me they are close to releasing a new version.02-23-10 03:33 PMLike 0 - I DLed BuddyGuard for FREE. Tested couple things out. Pretty easy to use. I love that if you lose it in your home or even outside the buzzing noise is soooo loud and annoying!!!! I would love for someone to find it or steal it and listen to the loud buzzing! Its great for free. The home screen icon changes to another color to warn you of upgrades or that the app needs attention. Nice and also very easy to use. Email or by text.
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com02-23-10 03:53 PMLike 0 - I would like to also know the best one out of these are. Which one is the easiest on battery life? Which one doesn't need to be running in the phone's background, but can be enabled whenever need be through push? I don't want an app that HAS to always be running in the background. I would think one of them could use RIM's push to enable the application?02-23-10 04:21 PMLike 0
- Yeah, but would be nice if you could trigger the application from PUSH. You can always 'check for updates'. Right now my BB is never more than 5 feet away from me, so a security app wouldn't be necessary for me atm, thats why I'm looking for something that doesn't need to run, but can be enabled by push.02-23-10 04:31 PMLike 0
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I would like to also know the best one out of these are. Which one is the easiest on battery life? Which one doesn't need to be running in the phone's background, but can be enabled whenever need be through push? I don't want an app that HAS to always be running in the background. I would think one of them could use RIM's push to enable the application?02-23-10 05:52 PMLike 0 -
That would be nice it have it enabled via email command, but if the app isn't running then it can't be enabled via email command. But what you are saying is a great idea, but I don't mind something running in the backround if it's going to save my phone in the future. I've lost about 3, maybe 4 in my life and it's really annoying.
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com02-23-10 06:29 PMLike 0 - Where's My Phone is a free upgrade to everyone who purchased a previous version.
I haven't had it long enough to know if it affects battery life. I don't think it should have any significant effect. All it does is read the subject line of incoming emails. If you activate it, it will use enough power for the alert message and sound, and to send a few small emails, and to read GPS location if you request it.02-23-10 09:46 PMLike 0 - I use the paid version of SmrtGuard now owned by SnapSecure.
Got discounted lifetime subscriptions during a promotion a few years back for 5 family devices.
Works flawlessly and is cross platformed.
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