WIMP - Where Is My Phone

[alanplum]

I’ve found a mint piece of software that no Kaiser owner should be without.

It comes with a trial period and u should check it out.

I was looking for some software that would help secure my phone and came across this. http://www.wimp-software.co.uk)

It’s supposedly designed to help you find your phone (yeh right, I aint gonna lose my £500 phone) but me and my mate have had a shit load of fun with it.
It’s pretty cool.

If you read the instructions, you can basically text the phone, but the other person doesn’t get the text message. The software grabs this coded text message and sends you back the gps position of the phone. It also gives you a link to google maps which is great if you’ve got Opera installed on your phone. (Don’t try PIE, it doesn’t work)

I gotta say, I’ve seen a lot of cool software around, but this one is SO cool. I only wish my girlfriend had a Kaiser. I could have so much fun with this.

The only thing I would add to the software though, is to know I was being WIMPED. Maybe a little SMS noise, or the icon changed or something, but I do suppose that it was written for phone theft. I haven’t tried it yet, but it also claims that if you change the SIM card in the phone it’ll SMS you with the number of the new SIM card.

[njxbean]

sounds kinda cool!

[alanplum]

All I can say is try it out. WIMP yourself lol. It's kinda fun finding out where you are

[Daemonicus]

This is a great bit of kit - I just tried this out on my Eten M700 and gave it to my girlfriend whilst she went to the shop. I could text her and see exactly where she was - it sent me back:

Latitude:51°24.740913'N
Longitude:2°29.562757'W
Speed: 0 MPH
Satellites: 9

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=51.412...TION)&t=h&z=19

You've gotta try this out!

[alanplum]

Yeh, same here, but mine was only where I was

I really wish my girlfriend had a WM6 phone with GPS.

Big brother, here we come.

[Daemonicus]

I can imagine this would be handy if I lost my phone (again). I accidently misplaced my last phone - at £500 a pop you can't do that too often. With this I would have been able to find exactly where it was, even if someone changed the SIM

[evilc]

WIMP and IIWPO on one phone would rock!

[alanplum]

That's a brilliant idea.

I'm gonna email them and put a few enhancement requests in.

This is one of the best bits of software I've seen for ages, and I reckon the IIWPO would also benefit the software.

I've done a bit of googling and they must be fairly new as I can't find much on the software, but I'll keep you updated to see if I get a response.

[evilc]

not gonna be possible until the good chaps here work out how to unlock the extrom of the kaiser or something like that I would imagine - it needs to be installed again on hard reset to be of any theft recovery value.

[alanplum]

I've seen it done on things like my Athena, so I don't think it will be long till it happens