Find My iPhone location tracking enables all-city chase

he was lucky it didn't get bricked

Good job! They should make his story into a TV show. How about "iPhone Chasers".

http://tinyurl.com/findmyiphn proof of concept that you can locate on iphone from an iphone.

Shame you can't access that page from another iPhone.

I may be imagining it but after I updated to 3.0 my battery life was terrible. After playing around with every setting I decided to reset and start fresh, ever since I reset the settings my battery life has been far longer.

not to let the cat out of the bag(this will probably be patched soon), but you can access me.com from the iphone. can anyone say wunder radio?

Forgive my language... but FUCK YEAH GO KEVIN!

Seems like only a matter of time until one of these MobileMe adventure stories ends in a stabbing.

My phone before the iPhone was stolen, and I had sprint family locator on it with GPS support. After it was stolen I kept trying to locate it without success, until a few days later I finally found it. It popped up at a house in the back of my neighborhood and I immediately called the police. A patrol showed up about 2 hours later, and I showed them the location on the map and after they spent several minutes talking about how cool that technology was, they said they'd drive by and see if they noticed anyone outside using a phone. I expressed some surprise at this and was told that GPS isn't accurate enough for them to get a warrant and that's the best they could do.

I told them that if they weren't willing to go knock on the door and ask about it, I would. I mean, maybe GPS isn't terribly accurate but you could pretty much guarantee it was at one of three houses right there, most likely the house where the dot showed up exactly. But, they wouldn't do it. Later I went to knock on the door but couldn't get anyone to answer. I'm assuming that when they saw the text message saying the phone had been located, they got rid of it quick and it was a lost cause anyway.

So yeah, I think this feature is more useful for finding where you left it than actually recovering a stolen phone. That is, unless your local police are more helpful than mine. Of course, in that instance the remote wipe would have been really handy...

A win for Kevin and MobileMe at the same time. Nice.

Great story. Too bad the thief wasn't a tech savvy dude. If it were me, I'd toss out the SIM card and post it on eBay.