legalities - found iphone

Theft by finding. It is not finders keepers

Ask your mate if he would accept someone else keeping his phone that contains personal info etc.

He should do the right thing, answer the texts and give it back.
 
SB118 said:
Isn't there some clever locator thingy that smart phones can do too, so the owner can physically track the phone?
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If software is installed for it, and the phone is switched on then yes.

But even then what do you do with the location? Would the police knock on the door? Could you force entry yourself?
 
Von Smallhausen said:
Its called theft by finding.

Ask your mate if he would accept someone else keeping his phone that contains personal info etc.

He should do the right thing, answer the texts and give it back.
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Not his mate from what the OP said, I think. From the sounds of it I don't think the guy is going to do it, and short of some keyboard warrior fantasy I can't think of any advice to set it right. Even phoning the polis and telling them anonymously about it is unlikely to result in anything.

Sad. :/
 
it's also extremely nice when people do do the right think. Someone handed my bunch of keys to the police and after a bit of badgering from parents I reported it, and a week latter I had my keys back, thanks to a very kind person who handed them in.

so it is worth reporting lost items to the police and handing stuff in, some stuff does find it's owners again.
 
Well, I've posted on his facebook that he is breaking the law by keeping it and all it would take would be for someone to print screen and email it to the police.

If that isn't enough I don't know what is.

The guy isn't a friend of mine, he is mr ego, a 8 stone weakling who has been bulking up at the gym for the last 2 years and still looks the same and he isn't in work at the moment.
 
Your work collegue may as well hand it back to the phone's owner or hand it into a local police station as if he decides to keep it it will get most likely get blocked by the phone's network in a few days.

Liam
 
My sister had her iphone 4 stolen in a pub on boxing day night, it had a passcode on, been blocked so its useless to the theif.
 
AHarvey said:
Well, I've posted on his facebook that he is breaking the law by keeping it and all it would take would be for someone to print screen and email it to the police.

If that isn't enough I don't know what is.

The guy isn't a friend of mine, he is mr ego, a 8 stone weakling who has been bulking up at the gym for the last 2 years and still looks the same and he isn't in work at the moment.
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Best I can think of is to persuade him that he is financially better off returning it. As soon as the owner gives up on having it returned for a reward and reports it stolen the phone dies. If he's going to get the £xx reward he needs to act fast before that happens.
 
cheets64 said:
My sister had her iphone 4 stolen in a pub on boxing day night, it had a passcode on, been blocked so its useless to the theif.
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It's what I do, with my contacts and photos backed up on iTunes it's not a problem restoring it exactly as it was with a new phone.
 
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