We're giving away 30 free 1-year subscriptions to WaveSecure [contest]

By Android Central  | Apr 27 2010 | 10:07 am  | 276 Comments

WaveSecure

There have been a few stories in the news of late of a certain tech company losing a certain phone in a bar. If only they'd had WaveSecure. With it, you can back up, lock, locate or wipe your Android phone from any computer, anywhere, at any time. Phone stolen? Not a problem. WaveSecure locks it down and alerts a designated contact if a new SIM card is inserted and requires a PIN to unlock. (Only applies to GSM phones, of course.) Left it somewhere? Track it down with Google Maps. (Get the full run-down at WaveSecure's site.)

And we've got 30 1-year subscriptions (normally $19.90) to give away. All you have to do is leave a comment on this story through 11:59 p.m. EDT tonight and tell us the worst place you've ever left/lost/or had your phone stolen. We'll pick 30 winners at random and e-mail the subscription codes. Good luck!

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kenkum says:

I once got drunk and passed out in the street. When I came to I found that all my belongings had been taken, my mobile included!!

uln4321 says:

i left my DROID in the apple store...... when i went back to get it they were amazed by all that it could do compared to the iphone!

Trouble81 says:

this should win for being awsome worst place i lost mine was in my couch and it was dead i looked frantic for days for it got a replacement for it and when i got a new couch i found my old phone

Diselage says:

One day I got done and for some reason I felt the need to lay my phone down on top of my car while i dug in my pockets for my keys. I drove home (5 miles, stop and go for about 1.5 miles) and while i just assumed it was at the office my wife asked why my phone was on the top of the car about 30 minutes after i got home.

dalex7777 says:

I had an old, trusty Samsung phone. And of course at night I would plug it in and put it safely on my bedside table. One morning, as a call came in, the phone began to vibrate--until it rocked it self right off the table into the glass of water I had placed by my bed.

My normally "safe" position meant my phone was completely dunked into my drink.

I've made sure never to repeat that wonderful combination again!

UTSkiBum says:

I went spring skiing in my shorts this past Sunday. I had my Droid in my pocket and thought it would be fun to take on some moguls.

When I got to the bottom of the mountain, I realized that I didn't have my Droid in my pocket. In a panic, I wondered if some spring hiker would later discover my beloved phone having been drenched in the spring runoff and pushing up Daiseys.

Luckly, my son discovered it in the snow as he took the same path. He thought he had found someone else's Droid. Thank goodness it was mine!

stereodroid says:

Never lost my phone before, but would be nice to protect my data and privacy in the event of theft. thanks android central for the contest hope to see many more.

Jdavisger says:

Left my Tmobile MDA at my ex-girlfriends house after breaking up with her...yes i went back 20min later to get it...

brianh14 says:

I left my phone in my truck one night when I went out partying. My truck ends up getting stolen so my phone goes with it. If I had this software I would have been able to catch the person who stole my truck and get my phone back!

kinglub says:

Droped my phone in a movie theater and didn't realize it till an hour or so later. Lucky for me it was still there.

Gorilla says:

I was at one of those family fun centers with an arcade. I believe I left the phone on top of one of the games and that was all she wrote. Luckily I had insurance.

canterrain says:

Lost my phone for a week once....

Underneath the passenger seat of my car. Never even occurred to me to look there... the joy of flip phones! Good thing it eventually rang.

rsjet says:

My phone was stolen along with my wallet from my hotel room in Costa Rica. I was on spring break with some friends and we went to the beach for only an hour, yet when we came back it was gone from on top of the room's desk.

We think it was the housekeepers since they had easy access to it, but we could never prove it.

lyndell says:

I was changin my sons diaper at his doctors office restroom on the baby changin station. Didn't realize my phone had fell out into trash bin. Left then rea.lized I lost it returned. The office was sweet enough to call and one of the receptionists was in restroom and heard the
Phone ring and dug it out of the trash and returned it to me...... with a couple sterilizations wet wipes!

chrizzled says:

i left my iphone in an apple store

manofsteel1982 says:

The only time I have ever lost my phone was in the back of a taxi after it slipped out of my pocket. Thankfully the driver was a decent human being and returned the phone to me. Gave him generous reward for being kinda enough to return my phone

pingpongboss says:

In the swimming pool :(

croush says:

My wife lost her brand-new, $350 Pantech Duo two years ago.

At our own wedding.

And, by the time we realized it was missing, and had probably been knocked off the sink in her dressing room into the trash, we were 4000 miles away, across an ocean, in Hawaii.

GGsti4 says:

I've never lost a phone and I'm def not about to lose my handy dandy Droid. But losing it scares the crap outta me so this would be good to have.

wibbletron says:

I once left my phone in an Android Central article comments thread, but then I realised that I just made that up in the hopes of winning a WaveSecure subscription.

Silly me.

friz#ac says:

Last year, I was at a filming session of ABC's "Lost" TV series. As I recall, I must have been lost in my thoughts because when I looked around, I realized I'd been separated from the film crew. I reached down to access my trusty navigation/location app on my phone, and realized it too was lost! (Not the app, the phone)

I began to retrace my steps. I soon realized with all the dense vegetation there was no way I was going to find my phone. That's when I heard the noise. If you've seen "Lost" before, you know the horrifying noise I'm talking about... Panicked, I ran, shrieking like a school girl. I lost my balance and twisted my ankle. I was losing daylight, fast, and without my Android flashlight I was at a loss for my next action.

I suppose it was at that time, I felt all hope was lost. That was until Kate appeared... You've probably lost interest by now so I will stop there.

omata says:

I lost My Siemens SL45 in a bar. That was te very unique celphone that I did lost.

jkingwhistler says:

One time i left work to go get lunch. As i got to my car i put my cell on the roof as i searched in my pockets to find my keys. I then proceeded to get in my car, drove into downtown (highway speeds of over 80km/per hr) and pulled into a drive through restaurant to order lunch. As i went to place my order from the employee at the window he informed me that i had a cell phone on the top of my car. I had never really liked the cheap rubber skins that go on cell phones but in this case it was just sticky enough to keep my phone from sliding off the car and being destroyed.

Jason.

ldcorky35 says:

My HTC Hero fell out of my pocket on the bus. The driver found it an is sending it back to me im very lucky !! I need this software incase it happens again !!

srinivas486 says:

I have lost one but three phones..i am kind of habituated to it..

->lost my first O2 Atom Exec when i went to a beach party with my college mates.. tried but never got it back.
->lost my second nokia phone in the office, i kept it on the desk and came after 5 mins ..never found my cell again..i tried to call it but it says switched off. not even the security cameras were able to find the culprit
->lost my another nokia phone ia a cab.. i was going home on a cab and some how the phone slipped out through my shorts pocket, i managed to catch the cab after an hour of searching but he said some people who hired the cab a few mins may have taken it..again the cell is switched off..
.......Dont want to loose my hard earned Android Xperia X10 which i am using right now.......

viruzman says:

i Agree only if he had WaveSecure to lock and backup his Stuff.

i had a htc-magic+, i am an on call Computer/Server technician,
i went to a clients business to perform some server updates, and i had accidentaly left my phone on the desk under a small pile of papers some one had moved,the busines owners son had found my cell phone while waiting for his dad to close up the store.

The 17 years old kid had my phone with all my Remote desktop
connection and saved passwords, and secure web site maintenance bookmarks, some financial, and technical information on our server builds, some Excel sheets with data, financials. There was a bit of damage caused to one the servers, not knowing what he was doing, the kid had deleted some files on the server rendering it in a downtime state for hours, Deleted some contacts and uninstalled many programs on my phone, took we weeks to get my phone back to the original state i had it in. On the other Hand if i had Wave Secure, i could have locked the phome immediatly, and prevented any unathorized access. Lesson learned, always keep an eye on your phone.
Wave Secure is the only product i now trust.