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Tracker

One of the really cool things about the N900 is the fact that in addition to the 5M pixel camera, it also has a VGA camera facing the operator. This is designed for video calls, but I want to use this with the GPS antenna to upload the location and a picture of the user to a website.

While this could be used as a Stalking tool (if say for instance your kid had a N900!), I wanted to use this utility to find my phone if someone ever steals it.

The basic idea of this is that:

• The phone will periodically record it's GPS location.
• Whenever the QWERTY keyboard is slid out the phone would take a couple pictures. (The idea being that if someone stole the phone they would "try" it out)
• The phone would periodically send this data to a web server or email account.

This way if I ever lose my phone, I would have the location and possibly the bastard who stole it! I know that there are Symbian and Apple Apps (i.e. MobileMe) that do something similar so it must be possible. It would also be great if I could locate the phone by using cell towers just in case GPS is not available.

Again, this is a work in progress so....