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pcernie
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_________________Plain English advice on everything money, purchase and service related:
http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/
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Nick
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I thought this had been available for a while??
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Fogmeister
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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Yes, but only through a web browser. This is the finding app rather than the bit that allows the iPhone to be found.
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jonbwfc
What's a life?
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My thoughts on first hearing this - 'It prints the words "Its in your hand you idiot" on the screen...' Jon
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timark_uk
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Then you realised it could be used on the iPad to find a lost iPhone, right? Mark
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Nick
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Meh.
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finlay666
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Why? Does the site that tells you where it is use Flash?  _________________TwitterCharlie Brooker: Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui.
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Amnesia10
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Yes but what if you have lost a number and it shows all of them within the same sort of range but still no more accurate. _________________Do concentrate, 007... "You are gifted. Mine is bordering on seven seconds." https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5MzczNTkhttp://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwx404couk-21
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timark_uk
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I don't understand that Amnesia. Sorry dude but it reads really convoluted to me. *shrug* Mark
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Fogmeister
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I didn't want to say but I also didn't understand it.
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Amnesia10
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I am sorry. I have seen the image  Now what if you have lost all your devices, it does not look accurate enough to determine exactly where they may be. They may all be superimposed over each other particularly if you lost them all at home. Sorry I should have been clearer.  _________________Do concentrate, 007... "You are gifted. Mine is bordering on seven seconds." https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5MzczNTkhttp://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwx404couk-21
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Fogmeister
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Once you get to within range of the image in the photo you should be able to hear it ringing.
I understood it to be a "did I leave my iPhone at work or at the pub?" kind of app.
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Linux_User
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Lol that looks horribly accurate, I can only assume that's a GPS find, which won't work if the phone's indoors.
I've just done a non-GPS location search on my phone, and it reported the location with an accuracy "to within 3100 metres" - in other words, useless. The centre of the circle was over a mile from the phone's true location.
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Nick
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That really does depend where you are though. If you are in a large town/city it can be surprisingly accurate. I believe it uses known wi-fi networks as well as triangulation to approximate it's position?? _________________
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finlay666
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It might but I doubt it. Google got rapped last time for picking up WiFi SSDs when going around with the streetview cameras in Germany IIRC, I don't think it would be appropriate. Google maps on my phone (depending on location and wifi/3g) can get my location usually within 50m, so the image isn't totally unrealistic on 3g, out in the sticks it's usually up to 1500m though which isnt very useful for this to say the least _________________TwitterCharlie Brooker: Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui.
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