You can track a stolen cell phone

As people progress with their lives they see the need to communicate with each other more often. This means that technology has to advance. This advancement brought about the emergence of cellular phones (or cell phones) commonly known to many as mobile phones. As the name suggests, mobile phones can be carried to various places and can be used anywhere where there is network coverage. Mobile phones are like walking directories as one can have the cell phone numbers of many other people.

The disadvantage of mobile phones is that with the advancement of technology come risks involved. Being portable these mobile phones may get stolen and may even fall and get physically crashed. This is especially disastrous for people who have to communicate regularly such as businessmen. Many people become attached to their mobile phones because they become very important devices for them. So if your mobile phone gets stolen, what do you do?

Thanks to some wonderful programmers, they have been able to develop software that works together with satellite technology to be able to track your mobile phone wherever it is. The technology behind it is that you can have certain software installed on your phone. (Am sorry to say this but this will work well only for 3G phones). So if, for example, you get mugged and the mugger goes with your phone and sell it to someone else who sells it to someone else….and the chain continues, you will still be able to track where your stolen mobile phone is.

What happens is that when you download the software, part of the details that you will have to fill in would be the cell phone number of another person (make sure the person is trustworthy). As soon as the person who took your phone removes your sim card, an sms (short message service) will be sent to the number you had registered with the exact details of location of the phone, even if the phone is beyond the geographical boundaries of the country.

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