Technology these days, how useful
 

Have you ever had that gut wrenching feeling when you reach for your phone in your pocket and your hands feel empty space? You check all your pockets but you can't find it. The worst part is you didn't leave it at home, you left it sitting on the table at that coffee shop you were just at. Well, I had that feeling yesterday.

Only when I was getting off the bus had I realized that I didn't have my phone on me. I was too far from university (where I had left it) and my only choice was to go home and call it, hoping someone had picked it up and was able to give it back to me. When I tried calling it; no responce, straight to voice mail. I quickly concluded and worried that someone had taken it and turned it off. I didn't have any 3rd-party "Track my android" apps on my phone so I feared for the worst. But I searched up and found out that Samsung's actually have their own "Track your mobile phone" service that only requires the phone to be on, and have a Samsung account linked to it.

Turns out, Samsung's service is extremely useful and has more than just tracking. From your computer, you can remote lock/unlock your phone, ring it and have a message appear on the screen displaying any sort of message up to 40 characters. I checked the location of the phone, and it said it was still on campus, so I rang the phone and sent it a message telling whoever picked it up to please call me back. About 10 seconds later, I got a call from the guy who picked it up. Since I was at home, it wasn't really possible to go back and pick it up (Lost and found would have been closed by the time I got there, even if I drove like a madman) so he left it at lost and found for me to pick up the next day.

That was yesterday.

Today, I picked it up from lost and found and it still has 20% battery (amazing, since it was around 50% when I lost it) I'm glad it's back in my hands, and I never thought that phones could now do this. I knew that you could track, but I never knew that you could do just so much remotely.

it's crazy that porn can be so accessible now, compared to 10 years ago

Since mine is a work phone and has corporate email attached it is set up that the powers that be can remotely wipe it if I ever get fired.
As that is the first thing they do I will have advance notice.
So if I ever disappe

Android has remote wipe and track phone native I believe...

Back in my day you had to wait MINUTES! for a pixelated .jpg and dammit, that was good enough to get the job done!

Google offers this service to all Android phones. Search for 'Android Device Manager' easily accessible via any browser with your gmail login.

http://www.androidcentral.com/app/an...device-manager

Tablets FTW. Keep that computer squeaky clean (in more ways than one).

Not how I expected this thread to go.

No. I'm part iOS developer and part Pseudo-Amish, so on weekends, I often don't have my phone with me. What that causes is the opposite problem: I pick up my phone after ignoring it for days (or even mere hours) and there's texts from people saying "where are you? I'm worried".

Lol, Aliens? Guy at work came in and there was a card on his computer that said 'out of service'. That's how he found out he was fired. Walked out to the shop floor and I being the first one he saw related this to me. Had a look like he was in shock. Brutal.