Recover your lost cell phone with YouGetItBack.com
May 13, 2008
So many gadgets, so many opportunities to lose them.
Now enterprising YouGetItBack.com, a company based out of Ireland, is offering services to “mediate” the return of your wayward CrackBerry and many other phones, MP3 players and mobile gadgets. Even laptops.
They offer two services you may find helpful, one free and one requiring a single low-cost investment up front:
- Lost and Found Service: You purchase a security tag that’s placed on the back of your gadget. If an honest person finds it, they go to the designated website and use the security tag to notify YouGetItBack of their find. The company then notifies you. Tags run $9.99 US.
- Cellphone Superhero: A “clever piece of software that allows you to lock your phone remotely” if you lose it. It’s free and in beta.
They also offer to let you back up your cellphone data [Read more]
