Comments on: RobLock – Yet Another BlackBerry Anti-Theft Solution

By: suresh babu

suresh babu — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 05:39:32 +0000

hey roblock is on sale $5 off .. just got it..

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Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:30:58 +0000

[...] gets a hold of your BB. We have mentioned a few of those berry locator programs before such as roblock. McAfee anti-theft is nothing revolutionary but it is a very handy and easy to use [...]

By: David

David — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:37:58 +0000

Ya Luciano, heard about the FindIt bug that corrupts all the phone profiles.

By the way, dexmobile released a new version of Roblock with the Remote WIPE feature for both CDMA & GSM users.
The good part is that it doesnt relay on BES and so it will work on non BES phones too….

There is a nice review on this new version at
http://www.blackberryforums.com/bbf-reviews/120424-review-roblock-theft-recovery-software.html

By: Luciano ES

Luciano ES — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:40:25 +0000

Oh, boy. Nasty bug found in FindIt 2.0: http://www.blackberryforums.com/aftermarket-software/117901-findit-2-0-released.html#post843069

By: Luciano

Luciano — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:12:14 +0000

You got me right there, David. A stolen phone with another SIM is not likely to have Blackberry service and access to e-mail. SMS is better indeed then.

By: David

David — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 06:30:42 +0000

But I have another, technical angle of this problem….

EMails cannot be sent from a blackberry if the thief is replacing the SIM with another SIM which is not Backberry service enabled. So FindIT is virtually useless.

And I Love the Recover contact feature as the contacts are more valuable to me than the phone itself. So Roblock looks much pretty than the other both. These dexmobile guys are into this field for a long time and their mGuard is the worlds first theft recovery for Java phones. The Windows Mobile version of Roblock is the best theft recovery solution for WM phones.

I found the OTA link > http://www.dexmobile.com/roblock.jad

By: Crackie

Crackie — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 02:00:25 +0000

I am a user of the phonebak blackberry and been extremely pleased with the establishment of the company with a wider range of coverage in devices when i changed from a HTC pda phone to Curve. If compared to the other products, the price is not the cheapest but the service, media mentions in cnn, cnbc it gives me the assurance that this startup is here to stay.

By: Luciano

Luciano — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:20:20 +0000

I don’t think I would like this RobLock application. They are advertising “SMS notification on SIM Change to predefined number”. I don’t think SMS are that reliable. E-mail would be better. I could test it, but I didn’t find any OTA link in Google (you didn’t provide any link to RobLock, Ronen) and I procrastinate a lot when there is no OTA installation. I don’t like to use the Desktop Manager.
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FindIt looks pretty and is a lot cheaper, but it lacks a very important capability: detecting the current SIM’s phone number and sending it to the phone’s owner. That can really help catch a thief. PhoneBAK does that, but it’s not cheap.
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It’s a matter of having choices.