Perhaps you haven't heard of Apple's MobileMe service. If you subscribe to that you can do a remote wipe on an iPhone. You can also locate it.
I have indeed and actually subscribe and have tested it. The original articles were not entirely clear on this point, as in exactly what state it was in after the remote deactivation.
In the end, it seems it was not MobileMe anyway. MobileMe remote wipe is broken in current versions of OS4, which this one had. The speculation by those involved is that Apple used the Exchange integration in the OS to activate the Exchange driven Remote Wipe. For the same reason (broken in OS4 beta) they could not use the Locate My iPhone service from MobileMe.
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The discovered device sports a front-facing camera, 80GB of storage
That's suggesting iPad in my household will remain in the possession of less rational folks than myself.
Perhaps you haven't heard of Apple's MobileMe service. If you subscribe to that you can do a remote wipe on an iPhone. You can also locate it.
I have indeed and actually subscribe and have tested it. The original articles were not entirely clear on this point, as in exactly what state it was in after the remote deactivation.
In the end, it seems it was not MobileMe anyway. MobileMe remote wipe is broken in current versions of OS4, which this one had. The speculation by those involved is that Apple used the Exchange integration in the OS to activate the Exchange driven Remote Wipe. For the same reason (broken in OS4 beta) they could not use the Locate My iPhone service from MobileMe.
Two cameras? Welcome to 2009, Apple.
Uh, pardon? Please point out the widely popular video chat phones from 2009 in the U.S.?