How to find out who owns an iphone?

kizkiz

There are apps that let you remotely wipe the phone, so they could have done that once it was lost,which could explain the lack of any data

For reference, everyone should have their IMEI number written down somewhere. It's unique to your phone and cannot be changed.
Just type *#06# and it will pop up
If you register your phone it can be returned to you easily

robbies_gal

sounds like she lost it on purposet o get a new one she might get a nice surprise when tesco tell her her phones been found lol

baby_frogmella

DUTR wrote: »

Well they can't store every lost item, tbh I would not stress too much about finding the owner, as long as you have done your legal bit then wait to see if in a few months it is yours, perhaps the owner left in the gutter when he realised , no FM radio, no video calls, no widgets support, does not possess features that are available on basic phones from years ago, does not support flash , does not support 16:9 aspect ratio etc etc

Actually glad the iphone doesn't support flash, it's a battery hog....HTML5 is the future.

I suggest you read this, this explains why most people who have tried Android, iOS and Windows Phone 7 simply don't find Android as slick as the latter two...even Google's own software engineers admit this, so straight from the horse's mouth

We’ll start off with Google engineer Dianne Hackborn’s post. She states that hardware acceleration – i.e. using the GPU, instead of CPU alone, to render the user-interface – has existed on Android since version 1.0 for things such as sliding the notification bar, pop-up dialogues etc. Full hardware acceleration only came with Android 3.0 Honeycomb and, unsurprisingly, Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich actually has the same kind of hardware acceleration and this won’t necessarily sweeten things up.

Hackborn states that hardware acceleration “is not all full of win” since it takes away a lot of RAM when used for devices like Nexus S, Galaxy Nexus with OpenGL. Each process takes about 8MB of RAM and “isn’t worth it” considering the minimal effect it has on how “smooth” the UI looks after implementing it. So yes, hardware acceleration certainly helps, but it takes far too much processing power for it to be implemented to all parts of the UI.

She ends her post on how full, complete, A-to-Z hardware acceleration that results in 60 frames-per-second graphics is simply not possible, even with powerful chips like the Tegra 2.

Now, the question arises: why is it that even seemingly outdated phones like the iPhone 3GS offer a smoother UI than the latest Android smartphones? iOS uses hardware acceleration and that too on weaker hardware. How does Apple’s engineers manage to pull it off, then? Why can’t Google do the same?

That has been answered by Andrew Munn – software engineering student, ex-intern at Google and future intern with Windows Phone 7 team at Microsoft – who states that UI rendering processes in iOS occur with dedicated threads with real-time priority whereas on Android, UI rendering processes occur along with the main thread with normal priority. Whenever an iOS devices detects touch, it stops other processes and focuses all attention to rendering the UI. Android devices don’t do this, instead general processing and UI rendering occurs concurrently which results in choppy UI.

To see this in choppiness in action, check out the following video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0UGC509Ap8&feature=player_embedded Notice the choppiness around 1:50:

custardy

gabbyevs wrote: »

sounds like she lost it on purposet o get a new one she might get a nice surprise when tesco tell her her phones been found lol

why? you can call up and say you lost it without actually losing it.
most likely wiped the phone remotly

DUTR

baby_frogmella wrote: »

Actually glad the iphone doesn't support flash, it's a battery hog....HTML5 is the future.

I suggest you read this, this explains why most people who have tried Android, iOS and Windows Phone 7 simply don't find Android as slick as the latter two...even Google's own software engineers admit this, so straight from the horse's mouth

Looks like I'm not MOST, baby please don't fall into the same bad traits as TGM, you only touched on one aspect of the list I posted (all be it tongue in cheek) I'm always up for a good debate where it is sensible, the FM radio thing is always going to be a bug bear and lack of widget, don't like the only option of a multi screen of launchers as a UI

baby_frogmella

DUTR wrote: »

Looks like I'm not MOST, baby please don't fall into the same bad traits as TGM, you only touched on one aspect of the list I posted (all be it tongue in cheek) I'm always up for a good debate where it is sensible, the FM radio thing is always going to be a bug bear and lack of widget, don't like the only option of a multi screen of launchers as a UI

Well i certainly don't think the iphone is better in every way than an Android phone and vice versa, which is something apple fanboys or android fanboys won't admit to.

1) No fm radio hardware on the iphone. So what? Tune-in radio app lets you listen to nearly every station

2) No Widget's on iphone. takes less than 2 minutes to jailbreak an iphone and you can install every widget under the sun. Every Android user who wants complete control, roots his phone. Every iphone user who wants complete control, jailbreaks his phone.

Now answer me this:

Do you think Google's OWN engineers are lying when they say Android isn't as slick as iOS or Win 7 mobile? perhaps you know better than Google's own engineers?

robbies_gal

yeah thyey could have wiped it but surely you would explore every avenue first befre saying you dont know where it is and insurance was quick to say theyd be getting a new one

grumbler

DUTR wrote: »

...I'm always up for a good debate where it is sensible, ...

It certainly was not sensible to provoke this debate once again in this thread with no reason whatsoever. This really resembles me TGM's obsession.

Blackpool_Saver

'found' it?

baby_frogmella

grumbler wrote: »

It certainly was not sensible to provoke this debate once again in this thread with no reason whatsoever. This really resembles me TGM's obsession.

That's the thing...there's people like the goodman who think the iphone is superior in every way to other phones...a typical apple fanboy. Yet at the same time there's Android fanboys like DUTR who are just as bad. Why can't people accept that every phone/OS has its pros/cons? There's no such thing as a PERFECT phone/OS.