For those who remember,'Find my iPhone' is a feature offered by Apple to MobileMe subscribers that lets them to recover lost or stolen iPhones.
Now a Belgian based company named Orbicule has launched an iPhone app that does the same thing and much more.
The 'Find My iPhone' feature lets you to constantly monitor the location of your iPhone using GPS as well as send push notifications. Orbicule's Undercover app takes it a bit further from there.
Using Undercover, you may customize your push notifications to sneakily pull the iPhone's GPS information. For instance, you may send a misleading push notification that says 'Please tap to view your current bank account balance' and as the thief taps and waits for the bank website to load, Undercover records your iPhone's location and notifies not just you but also transmits the details to the police officer working on the case.
Thanks to Apple's policies, the big downside to this utility is that you may not customize the title of the push notification which reads 'Undercover' all the time - something that can tip the thieves about it being a sneaky theft recovery software. In any case, even if the thieves are savvy enough to remove the Undercover app from your iPhone, Orbicule offers a free helper app called 'Found' that continues to relay GPS information to your Undercover account, which can also help you in recovering your iPhone. The company offers a money-back guarantee for stolen iPhones or iPod touch that cannot be recovered.
Here is a nice video that demonstrates Undercover's functionalities.
How do you like this app? Do you see this as a better alternative to 'Find my iPhone'. Please let us know in the comments.
You may download the Undercover app by clicking here (iTunes link). Also, find the Found app here (iTunes link)
[via MacWorld]
its another option, and thats what customers wants, "options", so its good, and also its nice to c that apple didnt bann this app, since its the same as a main feature for subscribers,
, all for the best of the consumers
I agree, I have mobile me.. and I can track mine from that… But this is good for people who dont want to subscribe to mobile me.
More options = Cheaper Services
I only like this because of the money back guarantee. I heard that removing the sim card will basically make any of these gps locators useless.
For jailbroken iPhones, there is iLocalis, which is actually more useful because it continually runs a daemon in the background. So the program doesn't actually have to be activated on the iPhone to enable the location tracking. iLocalis charges a fairly reasonable fee of 5 Euros (about $7.50) per year.
iLocalis wins hands down. Text messages when SIM changed, theif can't uninstall, can't restore in iTunes, remote backup, make the phone call or text any number regardless of the SIM, turns back on to update location, location services can't be disabled, push messages to the phone, remote wipe, remote audio recording (hear what the theif is saying), command phone via SMS… the feature set is amazing.
It almost makes me want to lose my iPhone just to take advantage of the app. OK not really but it is cool.
Hy gregg,
Its really good as per your blog .
But i’m not able to find this app ..:( can you please tell me the detail (Name of the product .. etc)