Pintail
free
free
Pintail is an app for finding lost Android phones. When you send an SMS message to yourself, with your chosen personal identification number, from another phone, Pintail texts you back the location of your own device. It's that simple. Setup is easy: type a four-digit PIN into Pintail, close the app and you're done.
You can now text 'Locate ####' to your phone from anywhere, and within a few minutes (assuming it has some battery) it'll text you back its location details and a link to Google Maps.
It's not only a lifesaver if you leave your phone in a cab or at a café, but if you give the PIN to your friends they can find you, say, during a pub crawl or at a festival, even if you're not answering your phone. On our first try, we got 'Location Unknown/ which wasn't encouraging. The second time we could only get a fix on a 2km radius, but when we clicked the Google Maps link, Pintail had the exact location. The third and fourth tries were spot-on.
Pintail could offer more features, such as email notification, and we'd also like protection against a phone thief simply turning it off. But it's a great freebie.
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