With service providers and manufactures installing tracking software's, it might become difficult to steal a phone.
For example, Samsung has put a software on its select models that sends SMS to a predesignated mobile number and e-mails when a new subscriber identity module (SIM) card is inserted into the phone. As these messages will have the SIM card number of the new user, tracking the thief down would merely be a phone call away.
GSM operator Bharti Airtel has introduced this technology and BPL Mobile is close to launching it, while Vodafone-Essar and Idea Cellular are considering it. The tracking software also ensures that data on the phones, like phone book and other details, are password-protected.
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