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Find My Phone App Says All Lost Phones Are At One House

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For both iOs and Android, the Find My Phone app says all lost phones are at one house in Atlanta, belonging to a couple who are not unfamiliar with the issue. In this day and age, it’s not at all safe to deal with someone who believes their smartphone was stolen. It’s their lifeline and, if you took it, things could potentially get really messy.

Michael Saba and Christina Lee have been taking the brunt of the technical issue with phone-tracking apps. For the past year, they have received several visits from angry owners demanding that their phones be returned to them. However, the couple was innocent in the matter, but it wouldn’t be like a guilty thief would admit to stealing it either. That turns matters into a potentially dangerous problem.

Find my Phone and Device Manager both share the problem

The confusion started in February, 2015, when the couple began getting knocks on their door by people searching for their phones. In one month, it occurred four times. All those who arrived claimed that their phone-tracking app has directed them to their house. Some arrived in groups of frantic owners, some even with the police.

According to Saba, they even became persons of interest in the case of a missing teenage girl. Her phone was tracked to their home, and they were forced out of it for one hour while the police searched for both the girl and her phone. Neither was found, in spite of the fact that the app tracked the device down. It becomes something difficult to clarify, and not all worried owners will take a polite explanation at face value.

It could lead matters to escalating. Saba claimed that his biggest fear is that someone more violent and dangerous will show up at their house. There is no telling what they would do, so they can only hope that the person behind their door will accept their explanation. This year has barely begun, and the couple already had two visits at their house.

Since there has been no solution found or help from government agencies, they plan on filing a complaint with their local senator and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

Experts believe that there might be issues with the mobile tower triangulation, which the apps use. It could also be a problem with their WiFi router or simply bad data received from the third party app. Whichever the problem is, Saba underlined that this truly shows how unsafe and unreliable such technology can be. They have been getting visits at all hours during the day and night.

At one point, matters could escalate, which places them in danger. However, experts have not been able to offer them an explanation and a solution, so perhaps a ‘For Sale’ sign would be safer.

Image source: gohacking.com

Puerto Rico chosen by Google as a Testing ground for its Modular Phone

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Google is surely one of the most innovative tech firms in the modern era. After revolutionizing the Android handset market, the company continues to provide the most cutting edge innovations to the smartphone world in Google’s project Ara smartphone or more commonly called as the modular phone is all set to be previewed before the end of this year after the tech giant takes it into commercial market some time during the next year.

The modular smartphone is all set to be tested in the Puerto Rico, a new testing ground for Google. The announcement was made at a Project Ara developer’s conference held in Mountain View, California. Regina Dugan, the Googler in charge of one of the most ambitious attempts in order to design and market a fully customized swappable modular smartphone running on Android, made the inspirational announcement.

The phone would be displayed to the public via food trucks, while Claro and Open Mobile are the two cellular networks on the island that are also partners in the pilot. Google also released that it would have released over 20 modules for people to test and use when customizing their modular phones by the time the pilot launches.

This would present Google the shortcomings of the phone as well as would also present opportunities as to what type of problems may arise and how to tackle those issues as well, before taking it to the next level.

These types of projects are often hyped with uncertainties, but if the phone gathers audience and makes a mark, then it would possibly alter the way in which we look at phones as of now, because modularity can bring with it a lot of opportunities. It would completely revolutionize the way we look and expect of our phones because these customizations would possibly usher the smartphone market into the future of ubiquitous computing.

Blackberry and Boeing teamed up to design self-destructing smartphone for security industry

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Blackberry and Boeing have designed a smartphone for employees and personnel of security industry that will self-destruct if any case is opened.

Despite of losing its popularity among the normal users because of android and other smartphones, the company is still quite popular among the business users.

Blackberry have teamed up with Boeing Company to design a super secured smartphone “Black Boeing” for the workers in the field of security and defense.

If the phone gets into wrong hands it will erase all the data in it making itself unusable like mission impossible style.

According to the documents filled by Federal Communications Commission the phone’s design is made invulnerable. It is completely sealed with no user-serviceable parts. The phone is locked with epoxy and temper proof screws that would erase all the data if anyone try to remove its hard drive.

The phone is equipped with dual SIM card service one connected with regular users and other with government network.

The data stored in the phone will be protected by Blackberry Enterprise server named BES12 which has multiple strict permission levels for accessing data.

“We’re pleased to announce that Boeing is collaborating with BlackBerry to provide a secure mobile solution for Android devices utilizing our BES12 platform…. That, by the way, is all they allow me to say.” Said BlackBerry’s chief executive John Chen on Monday during company’s call.

Until now nobody has the idea that how much the phone will cost.

Being the CEO of the company, Mr. Chen has increased the company’s concern towards the business and government users. The company has already released two phones this year for business users, one “Passport” and the other “Classic”.

The company reported a loss of $148 million for the third quarter of this year which is far better than the loss of $4 billion which the company had faced last year. Chen said that continuing efforts will make the company profitable till 2016.

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