New Orange phones scream when stolen
Mobile phone theft is a big problem these days, but Orange think they have the problem licked with an innovative solution - a mobile phone that screams when stolen. If your phone is stolen, you call orange's new Synchronica Mobile Manager service (sold for an extra £10 per month), which then wipes all the data on the stolen mobile, and causes the mobile to emit a ringtone which apparently sounds just like a human screaming. At last, a real use for ringtones!
[Source: The Inquirer]
Original Source: Mobile Mentalism
MobileMentalism is a blog dedicated to the disconnected. The focus is primarily mobile phones, but will clearly shift as the technology itself evolves and morphs, swallows other devices (mobile MP3 player anyone? digital camera?), and expands into different sectors (gaming, sat-nav, banking). Mike Evans is a lecturer in Computer Science, specialising in social computing, and devotee of the mobile gizmo. I’ve conducted research for Orange, developed Java apps for a now-defunct computer games developer (bless that dotcom crash!), and am currently working on a project with a mobile services company.