Berry Locator - how to find a lost Blackberry ( 9/10 ) 

Sean Cull  4 September 2008 09:35:40

This is a piece of software that has saved me several times and is well worth the £ 4 cost

It sits on your blackberry and when you send it an email ( text messages don't work ) with a special pass phrase in it the blackberry will email you back with its location from the internal GPS unit. It also brings the blackberry out of mute mode and activates an alarm on full volume

Two minor issues for me, I found the install via the desktop would not work but a support ticket quickly got me a direct download jad link. The second is that I can t seem to use another blackberry to display the location map - you need to use a desktop.

On one occasion I had left my phone on a customers desk and then gone to see several other customers in the same building. I lost the phone and triggered the Berry Locator software. It quickly told me which office it was in so I wen to that office only to be met half way there by my customer who was walking around trying to find me with a very load blackberry that he couldn't silence.

Thanks to Steve who put me on to it via his blog