How to erase data from your lost phone remotely

Posted by k-mix on October-19-2009 Add Comments

After searching the internet for ways to erase data remotely or the term “Kill Switch” from cellphones that were stolen, lost or confiscated by wives because their husbands were texting with other women, or simply cellphones that are physically no longer with you. I stumbled upon sites that provide information for different cellphone models to enable the remote wipe or kill switch feature.

Blackberry

For Blackberry 2.0 users there’s the application RoBlock for 9.95 dollars, it offers GPS tracking, remote lock, erase data remotely and can recover lost contacts.

Apple iPhone

The MobileMe service for Apple that costs 99.00 dollars / year offers a syncing program that copies e-mail, contact and calendar entries from a Mac to an iPhone. It can erase data remotely from your account and it can even have the phone flash any message on screen remotely.

Windows Mobile

For any Windows Mobile 6.0 smartphone, users can subscribe to a free beta app service of Microsoft called MyPhone. This service gives the user ability to locate lost phones and erase data remotely through GPS, as well as back-up messages, photos, contacts and calendar entries to Microsoft’s storage cloud.

Palm Pre

To erase data remotely from Palm Pre just log-in to palm.com/palmprofile using the e-mail address and password you set up when you first activated the handset and just select Erase Device.

Android OS

If you are one of the owner of a new Android smartphones, you can try SMobile Anti-Theft app for 19.95 dollars, it features GPS locator and can also erase data remotely from your phone memory or SD Card.

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