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Apple Patent Application Addresses Advanced 'Find My iPhone' Features and Customizability
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what would make this even better is to find a way to prevent the thief from A) powering down (by disabling the top button) and/or B) restoring the device after the owner has remotely locked it
The easy way around that is to overheat the device. It would power down to protect itself (try leaving your iphone in the car during a hot summer day...)
I call first to point out that "St. John Smythe" is a reference to Roger Moore's James Bond alias in "A View To A Kill."
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Well done, I was going to do the same
Awful Bond movie, though.
I wonder what prompted that particular reference for this patent application?
lol thats true. but that would require a pretty smart thief, to think of that. the way it is right now, its just way too easy for someone to get around the Find My iPhone lock/gps tracker.
I call first to point out that "St. John Smythe" is a reference to Roger Moore's James Bond alias in "A View To A Kill."
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Beat me to it!
Software already exists
The app Called IGotYa has all the features and more.
what the app does is apply security to the device when lock code is turned on...
so the thief grabs the phone it has a lock code right away he try s to power down.... this has been disabled by the app..... then he try s to put in dfu thats been disabled by app... then he try s lock code....or try s lock code right away when grabbed....first failed attempt the app turns on fount cam takes a pic secretly and emails the photo to your inbox with location and image of thief... very good if thief is known to you...but what it also does is allow if you wish to un lock the phone after two attempts but locks phones outgoing calls and answering of calls but still allows access to wifi and joins via open or unencrypted wifi in the area to send geotracking say thief's driving or walking along coffee shops or mc'dicks it will use the wifi connection to track the phone
It has many other features as well...remote wipe....msg.......turn on 2 min ring evan on silent....what still is lacking is remote power on...phones gets to a certain level and keeps a reserve to allows this feature like remote power on and 2 min ring to find the thief or if its in the thief's house and your talking to him you remote turn on and 2 min ring how great would that be...
The app Called IGotYa has all the features and more.
what the app does is apply security to the device when lock code is turned on...
so the thief grabs the phone it has a lock code right away he try s to power down.... this has been disabled by the app..... then he try s to put in dfu thats been disabled by app... then he try s lock code....or try s lock code right away when grabbed....first failed attempt the app turns on fount cam takes a pic secretly and emails the photo to your inbox with location and image of thief... very good if thief is known to you...but what it also does is allow if you wish to un lock the phone after two attempts but locks phones outgoing calls and answering of calls but still allows access to wifi and joins via open or unencrypted wifi in the area to send geotracking say thief's driving or walking along coffee shops or mc'dicks it will use the wifi connection to track the phone
It has many other features as well...remote wipe....msg.......turn on 2 min ring evan on silent....what still is lacking is remote power on...phones gets to a certain level and keeps a reserve to allows this feature like remote power on and 2 min ring to find the thief or if its in the thief's house and your talking to him you remote turn on and 2 min ring how great would that be...
Another ridiculous software patent.
Nothing more than networking software sending commands to a device with a gps chip and a 3g/cdma modem - which then interprets those commands and performs an action once again software wise.
So, is the next company that develops a similar network/software subsystem for one of their mobile devices in violation of this patent if its application is approved?
Second bs patent application on Macrumors in one day.
If we had access to a host of system hooks in the API any one of us developers could create a find my phone with these features, and it wouldn't be novel then either.
The first patent news report today is even worse because all of that could be done in an application by any iOS development firm, using their own network and Apple's push API.
I so long for a world where only hardware could be patented and software was under copyright laws.
Nothing more than networking software sending commands to a device with a gps chip and a 3g/cdma modem - which then interprets those commands and performs an action once again software wise.
So, is the next company that develops a similar network/software subsystem for one of their mobile devices in violation of this patent if its application is approved?
Second bs patent application on Macrumors in one day.
If we had access to a host of system hooks in the API any one of us developers could create a find my phone with these features, and it wouldn't be novel then either.
The first patent news report today is even worse because all of that could be done in an application by any iOS development firm, using their own network and Apple's push API.
I so long for a world where only hardware could be patented and software was under copyright laws.
This feature keeps getting better and better, but it has a long way to go before it's ideal.
I think it would be wonderful to be able to turn on Find My iPhone at some level that would require one's iTunes Password or a PIN to do a restore on the phone (thus keeping a thief from doing a restore to get rid of it), of course I assume that this would require a new bootrom that changes how DFU mode works as well. I think the market value of stolen iPhones would drop tremendously if we found a simple and universal way to make all stolen iPhones useless to anyone except the rightful owner.
I think it would be wonderful to be able to turn on Find My iPhone at some level that would require one's iTunes Password or a PIN to do a restore on the phone (thus keeping a thief from doing a restore to get rid of it), of course I assume that this would require a new bootrom that changes how DFU mode works as well. I think the market value of stolen iPhones would drop tremendously if we found a simple and universal way to make all stolen iPhones useless to anyone except the rightful owner.
Joypad?
Does it look like to anyone else that there is a joypad integrated into that iPhone diagram?
Does it look like to anyone else that there is a joypad integrated into that iPhone diagram?
What's easier than "slide to unlock" ??? I doesn't get much easier than that.
Now, if you meant to say you want a more secure way, how about an iris scan with the front camera? They would have to take your head to unlock it.
This already exists on another phone... it's cool for about 5 minutes.
Then it becomes cumbersome.
LOL, yet another thing apple is stealing.
Samsung already had this more then a year ago.
I can sum up some others to: Prey, Lookout, Where's my Droid, SeekDroid, Phonelocater, Droidring, FindMyPhone, AVG mobile,............
Let other company think, take their ideas and patent them, then sue their asses
Samsung already had this more then a year ago.
I can sum up some others to: Prey, Lookout, Where's my Droid, SeekDroid, Phonelocater, Droidring, FindMyPhone, AVG mobile,............
Let other company think, take their ideas and patent them, then sue their asses
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Anyone else notice the strange locations of the sensors and that weird box with the 4 arrows? I know someone else asked if this was the iPhone 5, but I agree that it could be
Anyone else notice the strange locations of the sensors and that weird box with the 4 arrows? I know someone else asked if this was the iPhone 5, but I agree that it could be
You live in a sad world. I would think that if a phone is lost and found and the "founder" (sic) found a big button on the phone to contact the rightful owner, then they would press that button. Maybe Apple should make the button red and write "don't press" on the button, because nobody can resist a red button that says "don't press".
More useless patents I need not worry about.
America, let me show you to them.
LOL, yet another thing apple is stealing.
Samsung already had this more then a year ago.
I can sum up some others to: Prey, Lookout, Where's my Droid, SeekDroid, Phonelocater, Droidring, FindMyPhone, AVG mobile,............
Let other company think, take their ideas and patent them, then sue their asses
America, let me show you to them.