iTag

by Antonio Wells Apr 28, 2010 11:00 AM – 2 Comments

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iTag is a FREE service to locate and protect your lost or stolen phone. View your cell phone’s location, make it ring, lock the keys, back up your data, delete the information on the phone and MORE! You can optionally be alerted when friends are near and send a message to your friend nearest your lost phone.

Price: Free (for first 10k registered or refer 3 friends to get it Free), $20 for Unlimited

AndroidTapp.com Android App Review:

Pros & Cons:

Pros

Find your phone if lost or stolen
Backup and Restore data
Remotely lock keys
Send and request friends location

Cons

Forces Close often… buggy
Issue with Android users who use Home Screen replacement Android apps
Battery drain, process run away app

Features:

iTag Android App aims to help you find your Android phone is lost or stolen. It does this mostly but at the cost of a lot of bugs and user experience issues. Let’s address the bad first then the good.

The Bad; it forces close at random often, it adds to battery drain as it seems like a run-away process app (can’t exactly pin point it but I started having those issues after installing the app… this is just speculation), for many users whom replaced their default home screen (with apps like aHome, Open Home or SlideScreen, etc.) it asks to be the default home… overriding your customized home screen.

The Good; like other remote phone finding apps it helps you locate exact position via GPS, backup data in scheduled intervals and restore if needed, remotely lock the key pad if stolen, and send friends your location or request theirs provided they have iTag installed and allow it in Privacy settings.

Video: iTag

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJBw9kHVJKo

: iTag Home Screen

: iTag Backup and Restore

: iTag Get Anyones Location

: iTag Send My Location

: iTag Privacy Settings

: iTag Tell My Friends

Usefulness:

Using a stealthy app to help find a lost r stolen phone is always infinitely useful. iTag has a unique feature when your friends have the app installed and allow you to access their location; for example it can be used if your phone in a coffee shop near a friend… you can use the web portal to see how close the friend is and SMS text them from the computer to grab your phone for you.

Ease of Use:

If you can get past registration, operating the app is straight-forward. Simple toggle controls happen on the device whereas more control is offered on www.iTag.com website.

Frequently Used:

Intended for use if you lose or misplace your phone.

AndroidTapp.com Rating

(2.7 out of 5)

Should you Download iTag? Recommend staying away for now until more kinks worked out and tested thoroughly as it has potential… We’ll update you when that happens. In the meantime try WaveSecure Mobile Security, Mobile Defense, or Wheres My Droid.

Developer: iTag.com

Tags: Android Apps, AndroidTapp.com App Review, Find Lost or Stolen Phone, Find My Phone, iTag

Categorised in: Social, Tools

2 Comments

By ChaosKiller on April 28, 2010 at 11:11 am:

Another con: US only

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By ddhboy on May 1, 2010 at 3:05 pm:

I’m not a fan. I just had to delete this app because it would wear down my Nexus One’s battery life to like 6 hrs. Random crashes all the time, and frankly, its not all that useful as a finder application, like for an app that’s always running, it seems strange that it so rarely updates the location of your phone.

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