Lost Blackberry ... Now what?

In My Humble Opinion
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My wife lost her Blackberry last night. AFAIK, there was nothing super sensitive on it data-wise.

We were at the supermarket at the cashier when she got a text. That’s the last she saw it. When we got home, we couldn’t find it anywhere.

I called it several times trying to locate it by listening for the ring. We heard no ring in the car or house.

After several calling attempts, calls suddenly stopped “ringing through” and started going straight to voice mail. There was plenty of battery left, so I assume that means someone found it and turned it off or it was destroyed.

Nobody turned in a lost phone at the supermarket.

I went back to the market and looked around on the ground and in the store. No luck.

We called and reported it lost and suspended the account.

All we can think to do now is suck it up, make a handset insurance claim and get a new one.

Any helpful tips you can offer for this incident and future protection are appreciated. By helpful tips, I mean something more helpful than “be more careful next time.”

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Cellphone companies have not made great strides in banning stolen or lost phones unique identifier from activating on their networks, so your only recourse is to do what your doing and take smaller loss on insurance.

There are some snake oil salesman talking about using your gps in the phone to locate it, but the calibration of the gps is only about 1200 meters usually, since they triangulate it off the cell towers.

I’d probably send an email to whomever is on your wifes contact list and let them know the phone is gone and its possible that they might get spammed at best. Same as with the bb messenger if she is/was using it.

Declan