MobileMe to let you locate your iPhone via GPS?

by Boy Genius on March 17th, 2009 at 9:50pm
Filed under: Apple, BG's Corner, Exclusives, Handsets, Mac OS 40 Comments

We’re going out on a limb here, but check out this option we discovered in iPhone OS 3.0 under a MobileMe email account…

Thoughts?

Tags: 3.0, find my iphone, GPS, iPhone, MobileMe

40 Responses to “MobileMe to let you locate your iPhone via GPS?”

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Mike M. says:

March 18, 2009 at 12:52 PM

God forbid you left “Location Services” set to OFF before you lost it. I wonder if this new feature will turn the service on remotely to aid you in finding your phone. And, i’m hoping it’s not solely GPS-based, like so they can use cell towers triangulation to find it. (sorry if I used the wrong term on the cell towers thing, but i’m sure someone will know what i’m talking about and correct me.)
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Mike M. says:

March 18, 2009 at 3:48 PM

God forbid you left “Location Services” set to OFF before you lost it. I wonder if this new feature will turn the service on remotely to aid you in finding your phone. And, i’m hoping it’s not solely GPS-based, like so they can use cell towers triangulation to find it. (sorry if I used the wrong term on the cell towers thing, but i’m sure someone will know what i’m talking about and correct me.)
Should add excellent post! Looking forward to seeing the next one!
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Peter says:

March 18, 2009 at 3:49 PM

Windows Mobile and Symbian have programs to do this.
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jimbojones says:

March 18, 2009 at 7:06 PM

in response to “what can the iphone do that other phones have been doing for ages cant” uuh has a touch screen that doesnt make veins in your head pulse when attempting to use the device. dont gimme winmo has, it hasnt dont care what handset, what graphics from a spectrum application you can run to try and help it does’nt ive had one it sucked, and dont get me started on active sync. oh and the clock and calendar in winmo has been the same since the early 90’s, i had a dx2 50 486 then, it was ugly, but i upgraded to 8mb of ram and i could with some autoexec.bat fiddling make it run wing commander 3, which sucked, but not as much as winmo.
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Scott says:

March 18, 2009 at 9:36 PM

@celz

First off, the iPhone was made before the touch. So quit your bitching that it’s an iPod. And how is it not a smartphone? I’m curious what smartphone you use? And no one on here is pretending that anything in 3.0 is ground breaking. We are simply excited to see some new features. And I have to say that the iPhone can do a lot more then other phones can. Why else is everyone cranking out phones that are similar, but still fall short? Even BB tried. They sure as hell have done some thing right to sell 13.7 million in less then 2 years.
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ejleverett says:

March 20, 2009 at 12:24 AM

this is not to find your iphone via gps, it is to find your iphone through a bluetooth connection, one of the nice things that the os 3.0 will allow to happen with bluetooth connectivity
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dave says:

April 3, 2009 at 11:30 AM

“this is not to find your iphone via gps, it is to find your iphone through a bluetooth connection, one of the nice things that the os 3.0 will allow to happen with bluetooth connectivity”

Doubtful. What are you gonna track it with? A special bluetooth device you buy from apple…..dude just read it says this allows you to track your phone at me.com….me.com is not bluetooth.
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Sean P says:

April 12, 2009 at 1:54 AM

How about being the first touch screen? The first updatable phone? The incredible browser, email, iPod and phone applications? Let’s be realistic, there is not a reasonibly priced phone that is better then the Iphone. It can’t be the best at everything, but apple sure is trying. You try keeping up with the iPhone, tell me how that goes.
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Dov Gilberd says:

May 10, 2009 at 10:14 PM

I currently have Beta 3.0 5. A few months ago i installed an app to track my phone and lock it remotelly. One day i started noticing fast drainage of my battery. Sudently i realized that it started happening after i’ve installed that app. What was happening was that my phone was sending constantly a beacon reporting the gps cordinates and that was wasting my battery realy fast as matter of fact withing 2 hours. I believe this new feature will activate a beacon that reports gps codinates and that will consume alot of battery
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katco says:

June 8, 2009 at 8:00 PM

yup, just got my iphone stolen too and people have been talking about lo-jack… but then i did hear about the mobile me… so how exactly does it work… once i have a mobile me account and then select this option on the phone ‘find my iphone’ ..then what?
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bob says:

June 17, 2009 at 3:20 PM

your just mad you cant get an iphone cause your locked into your rim or nokia or other iphone wanna-be, lol to bad your so jealous that you comment online about your short commings lol, and im in canada and my 3g coverage is the best the iphone has to offer in the world….no dropp outs like att. but u keep thinking your 1990 phone is so cool lol and go play on your 486 computer!!!
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huh says:

June 19, 2009 at 6:37 PM

Iphone not a smartphone, hmmm it has it’s own operating system and does not require WAP gateways to communicate on the internet, must be a really intellegent phone.
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Mike says:

June 21, 2009 at 10:27 PM

Curious about one thing, Is everyone willing to pay an annual fee for this?
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Mike says:

June 21, 2009 at 10:32 PM

for notifcation
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xboxturbocontrollers says:

October 22, 2009 at 1:24 PM

You should try to search for the cause of this problem but not the method to due with it at this instant.
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