Hello AF Community:
Here's a new app on the Android Market for the misplaced/lost phone: PhoneLeash (www.tinyurl.com/phoneleashfree)
Lets cut to the chase, what does it do: if you've misplaced your phone, you can use SMS commands to
- locate it using GPS/WiFi location, get a nice Google Maps link, and
- make it ring LOUD (even if its on vibrate).
But while your phone is not with you, you get via email or SMS:
- missed call notifications
- incoming SMS
- you can reply to SMS, and the reply goes out of your phone as if you typed it in yourself (if you are using this over email, your phone needs to have an email-to-SMS address, which PhoneLeash helpfully tries to autodetect for US and Canadian carriers)
- battery low message
Tested with Go SMS and Handcent.
Works with HeyWire SMS numbers
Would love to make it work with WhatsApp - if only there was an API
Works with some tablets (Tab 8.9?) that do SMS but are not phones
Very very simple to setup - 1 screen, 1 password, 1-2 email or phone numbers.
Here's a long story (I'm told!) on the beta tester's site : http://androidforums.com/alpha-beta-testing/468590-beta-phoneleash-app-misplaced-phone.html
Do try it out, and let us know how you like it!
SUPPORT/SUGGESTIONS/QUESTIONS/FEEDBACK >> support at gearandroid dot com
Here's a new app on the Android Market for the misplaced/lost phone: PhoneLeash (www.tinyurl.com/phoneleashfree)
Lets cut to the chase, what does it do: if you've misplaced your phone, you can use SMS commands to
- locate it using GPS/WiFi location, get a nice Google Maps link, and
- make it ring LOUD (even if its on vibrate).
But while your phone is not with you, you get via email or SMS:
- missed call notifications
- incoming SMS
- you can reply to SMS, and the reply goes out of your phone as if you typed it in yourself (if you are using this over email, your phone needs to have an email-to-SMS address, which PhoneLeash helpfully tries to autodetect for US and Canadian carriers)
- battery low message
Tested with Go SMS and Handcent.
Works with HeyWire SMS numbers
Would love to make it work with WhatsApp - if only there was an API
Works with some tablets (Tab 8.9?) that do SMS but are not phones
Very very simple to setup - 1 screen, 1 password, 1-2 email or phone numbers.
Here's a long story (I'm told!) on the beta tester's site : http://androidforums.com/alpha-beta-testing/468590-beta-phoneleash-app-misplaced-phone.html
Do try it out, and let us know how you like it!
SUPPORT/SUGGESTIONS/QUESTIONS/FEEDBACK >> support at gearandroid dot com