It’s relatively easy to setup and has some well thought out
functions. Once installed and setup correctly, the application becomes totally
invisible while active on the phone. This is important because you don’t want
anyone else to access the software and disable or un-install it.
If your phone is stolen or lost, there are a host of
different SMS commands you can send to your phone which is very useful.
Additional to this, if your phone is stolen and the SIM card is changed, the
phone will notify you via SMS to the cell numbers you setup for notifications.
You can lock the phone remotely via SMS, which locks the
phone (obviously) and sets off a siren with a voice saying “THIS PHONE IS STOLEN
OR LOST!” (Default siren sound – you can choose any other sound or tone from
your phone, I like the default one though).
You can also locate your phone via GPS co-ordinates by
sending it an SMS, it will then SMS you back with the co-ordinates plus other
info about your phone like Cell ID, Battery level, Signal Strength, New IMSI
number and IMEI number, all of which is important info when trying to get your
phone back. Accuracy of the co-ordinates is very accurate to within a few
meters, but if the phone is in a house or building, accuracy goes out by
hundreds of meters which will give you a pretty wide search area.
Other SMS functions also allow you to get your lost phone to
call you back, retrieve SMS’s, contacts and call logs.
Theft Aware is cheap, and you buy it once of, it does not
expire like some of the other products, it also works on a lot of phone types.
To check if your phone is listed, just visit their website at theftaware dot
com.
All in all, I like Theft Aware – It’s a really cool
application and work very well, an absolute must have for your cell phone
protection.
