Orbicule just released the iPhone version of their excellent Undercover software. Of course, on the iPhone, it’s nowhere near as “undercover” as it is on the Mac. The thief has to open the application (assuming it’s a game) to have it send the phone’s location to Orbicule’s servers. What is clever, is that they are apparently talking to makers of other programs to also send location information if an Undercover configuration is found on the phone. That makes it more likely for one of them to be launched so that the phone’s location can be transmitted.
Their biggest competitor here is Apple: iPhone OS 3.0 will include an option for users of MobileMe to remotely find out the location of their phone at any time (if they activated that function in the phone’s settings). That works without launching an application, even when the phone is locked. And it’s a function that can’t be removed (though it could presumably be deactivated by the thief). So while I love their software on my laptop, I have my doubts about how useful this really is for the iPhone.
