14 September 2008

Stop, Thief!
Protect Your Phone from Thieves with nAlertMe!

What is the best way to protect your phone against nasty thieves? I know, most of you would say treat your phone like the cash in the wallet, keep it in the pocket, never leave it unattended and you’ll have no problems at all.

Sounds as pretty good solution but unfortunately it's not always practical to carry the heavy Smartphone with you all the time, especially when you are on some kind of event like I was few days ago in Helsinki.

You see, I guess you won't like to carry the phone to the nearby coffee machine, I mean it is just a across the room and you’ll rather leave it on the table for a few minutes but few minutes maybe more than enough for a crafty thief to walk away with your lovely phone!

So what to do in such situation!? What is the best option to be sure that you’re phone will not disappear? Well I think that our mighty Samir has the solution, an interesting freeware (I guess) utility, an alarm application actually that is not available yet but there is a video that shows nAlertMe in action.

Application uses phone’s internal motion detection system (accelerometer) and uses it as a trigger for the alarm. nAlertMe is anti-theft application for your that uses internal motion sensor to detect sudden movement and then trigger and very loud audible alarm.

Pretty simple but yet powerful application and also what will be nice to implant is the use use the built-in front 3G camera to capture a photo of the thief and mail it straight to your mailbox. Yeah I know, it’s just another product of my crazy imagination that will be hard to implement :]

Anyway, here is the video that shows nAlertMe in action and application is supposed to be released soon.

In simple words, idea is that if you leave your phone unattended in a public space and someone tries to make off with it, accelerometer will trig the alarm and produce the loud alarm sound, and you will at least have the opportunity to give chase LOL :]