3 phones stolen over the course of 12 years. Not that big a deal in terms of South African cell-phone theft stats.

Sounds good, thanks!

Interesting. My opinion of the iPhone has risen.

I'm guessing most people do not have anything other than a Sim-card pin.

Sure, you can expect technical, security minded folks to use multiple forms of protection but for the average joe that's all too much work. He just wants to be able to use his phone...

Wow, and they call South Africa violent...

I sure you would also find thousands of cases where someone with a concealed handgun committed a crime...

You should do some reading on violent crime studies.

Conclusions so far have been that a prevalence of guns in a society contributes to crime rather than the opposite effect...

My phone was in the lower, left front pocket of my cargo pants. I was distracted due to helping to hold the train door open (The trains here sometimes suffer a failure of the system the opens the doors and this results in the door attempting to close while people are entering/exiting the carriage) and hence didn't notice that I'd been pick-pocketed.

Well done, you worked out why I submitted this topic in the first place!

Thanks. I love you too Anonymous Coward.

P.S. Please give me back my spoon.

The problem with remote tracking is that it's very easy for the thief to switch off GPS and Data. Once that's been done you can't Track the phone and the thief can take their time digging through your data.

In my case, I was only got home a full 45 minutes after the phone was stolen. By the time I logged in to Motorola Support, the GPS and Data had already been disabled.

The big problem with Android phones is they make it very easy to link in your Google account. Once you're Google account is linked that opens the device up to all kinds of misuse...

Exactly my point. If you're not going to link your smartphone to any accounts, what's the point of it?

One might as well use an old Nokia 6230...

Thanks, this is some of the kind of information I was looking for. I had no idea the Revoke Access system even existed. Thanks for enlightening me :-)

The lack of interest in this is astonishing.

I guess people just aren't that worried about their phones providing a direct link into a lot of their personal accounts that is easier to get a hold of than a 20-character password...