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RIM will track lost Blackberrys
CORPORATE MOBILE PHONE LEADER Research In Motion (RIM) is helping its Blackberry users track down their smartphones if they go missing in action.
The company is running what it calls Blackberry Protect in private beta and will roll it out to a limited invitation public beta later this week.
Blackberry Protect product manager, Michael Accettura, blogged the news on the Blackberry blog.
"BlackBerry Protect allows you the ability to wirelessly backup, restore and locate your BlackBerry smartphone," said Accettura.
"In the event that your BlackBerry smartphone is misplaced, lost or stolen, BlackBerry Protect provides features like: remote device wipe, remote device lock, ‘Lost and Found' screen, locate device on a map, remote activation of the BlackBerry smartphone loud ringer, and wireless device backup and restore."
After registering, data can be backed up in full but only incrementally after the first backup is complete. Punters can also use a Blackberry Protect web portal to access features like the not very exciting ring increase.
More impressive is the ability to lock lost Blackberrys and track them down using the in-built GPS via the web portal. If users still can't trace their precious smartphones, there's a remote wipe option that takes all the user's data off, even from the Micro SD card. Backups can then be wirelessly restored to a new Blackberry. µ
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This is not new at all for BB. Like someone posted earlier it has been available for BB for some time (about the last 3 to 4 years or so) - both tracking and wiping. The only difference is with the sd card but for many that's no big deal.
Besides, who wants to back up personal data to their provider's storage? especially when the backend is questionable (ie., we're not sure exactly how they will protect it). Not to mention RIM's outages and how it could affect that data.
don't but into this nonsense.
A lot of that functionality has been available to devices on a BES for years.
The ability to do a remote wipe, place a lost and found screen has been there for a long time.
Other free apps enable other features.
And my carrier provides an app that allows wireless backup of most data, though admittedly not of the micro-SD card.
Doesn't seem all that new.
Wow, BB users will be like... this is the best thing since sliced bread. Ignorant people not knowing apps on Android can do this too... for free? I guess you value something more if you had to pay for it then it became free.