Studies show that a mobile phone spends at least 2% of its lifespan down the back of a sofa or under a shopping bag in the car, while its owner scrambles around the house trying desperately to find it. If you’re silly enough to put your phone on silent, you won’t even be able to call it to locate it by listening for the ring tone. UNTIL NOW.
Where’s My Droid is a free app that solves this tedious problem. Send a specific text to your phone and Where’s My Droid will turn your ringtone volume up and start ringing. The only requirement is access to another phone to send that text, which makes this app unsuitable for friendless wonders.
Here’s the QR code if you’re into that sort of thing:
It’s smooth to use, the 1080p display is sharp, clear and bright, the device is extremely light and thin and therefore very pocketable and portable — much more so than other 5-inch phones we’ve used. And yet… we’re a bit unimpressed by the overall package…
A relatively high-spec smartphone, with a 4.5″ display running at 480 x 854 resolution and powered by a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, plus the Ascend G510 arrives running Android 4.1.1 — albeit potentially hindered by Huawei only sticking 512MB of RAM inside it..
The Panasonic Eluga marks the company’s return to the European mobile phone scene years after several years of absence, and it’s come back to us with a moderately high-spec Android model that features a rather stylish, slim case.
Sony returns with an all-new mobile design for 2012, pairing a dual-core processor with a 720p display. It’s a lovely phone, but is it enough to end our Samsung and HTC obsession?
LG’s updated Prada phone comes with an absolutely crazy black & white theme, but is it just for fashionable suit wearers who want to make themselves look a bit more interesting?
BillyHicks
/ July 4, 2010I like the fact your using QR codes now. Makes things much easier.
Gary C
/ July 4, 2010That’s just Tim. He’s new and keen. It’ll soon become too much of a pain…
JiMMaR
/ July 4, 2010and would be great if someone else figured that out and started sending you sms’s when you WANT your phone to be silent ..
anyway .. the solution for the silent lost phone is
1- call the phone from a landline (or use a mobile phone but keep it far)
2- go around the house with a turned on radio
if you hear statics , it means you are near .. start looking !!
Trilby
/ July 5, 2010Don’t try that if you live in Silent Hill though, it’ll all end in tears.
eve
/ November 26, 2010My ringtone will not work on my LG Droid optimis.
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