Scream if Your Phone is Stolen

A new application has been developed for mobile phones that would cause them to release an ear-piercing screech if stolen. From today robbers who steal mobile phones set up with Remote XT will have a shock when they try to sell the phones on the black market. Phones are instantly disabled - even if thieves remove the SIM card - and let out an ear-piercing screech, which can only be stopped if the battery is removed.

Both the UK's Metropolitan Police Force and the Mobile Industry Crime Action Forum have come out in support of the technology.

Remote XT is the world's first mobile solution to work across all networks, offering the only total security package, which not only locks handsets and wipes all information, but also offers a complete back-up function that restores all data instantly to a new phone including e-mails, text messages, ringtones, music, pictures etc.

"By making mobiles unusable to anyone but the rightful owner, the phones become worthless and we'll see market for stolen handsets stamped out once and for all," said Mark Whiteman, Managing Director of Remote XT. "Theft proof phones spell disaster for the huge criminal industry that has profited from mobile theft for too long."

Posted to the site on 3rd October 2006