Mobiles changed the way we communicate. From having to wait for ages for a landline connection to buying a mobile phone off the rack at rates that allows even the maid to posses one, long-distance communication has definitely become cheaper and accessible.
But along with easy communication came another menace - that of theft. Majority of mobile users will have at least one story to tell about the theft of their brand new mobile. Once stolen, there was little the user could do other than buy another one.
However, slowly this problem is being addressed and new softwares are coming up to trace the lost phone and its thief. The latest and one of the most interesting amongst them is the screaming mobile!
A new system has been developed which makes a mobile scream after it has been stolen. Security experts have devised a system, due to which, when the phone gets stolen, it triggers a high-pitched screech from the phone along with a message which reads, "This phone has been stolen." The phone is automatically disabled with the contact numbers, texts, images and emails being removed.
In the new system, Remote XT, a signal is sent to the mobile once it is reported stolen or lost, which causes it to emit an alarm similar to a scream. With this service the Mobile Industry Crime Action Forum, which is backing the project, hopes to make mobile phones less desirable items to steal and making them worthless in the hands of those who do.
Available in England, the service does come at a cost. Subscribers have to shell out £10 a month to avail of this service.
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