July 1, 2011
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We found Doug!!!      
by brandon1111

I was just in Vegas with some friends and one of them left his iPhone on the table at the center bar in New York New York Casino. After leaving the casino he realized he had forgotten it and we ran back but within minutes his iPhone was gone. I turned on the “Find my iPhone” app and we tracked it across the street at the Tropicana Casino parking garage but were unable to find it because someone turned it off. The next day we used my computer and found it at an outlet mall 10 miles north… so we jumped in the car and decided his iPhone is now Doug (from the Hangover). We narrowed it down to 5 Kiosks but we couldn’t hear the alert because it was too loud and then we lost the signal. Someone had turned off the phone but we didn’t see anyone with an iPhone… except one guy at this Gadget Kiosk selling iPhone solar chargers. My friend asked how the charger worked and noticed the phone wasn’t turned on and asked why. The guy said because it wasn’t his… they were just using it to demonstrate how the charger worked. My friend said, “You know why you can unlock it… because it’s mine.” He unlocked the phone and we filed a police report. We would have never been able to find it if the iPhone didn’t have this option. It was an awesome adventure. Thanks “Find my iPhone”!!!!

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— (Ah… sometimes an iTunes review can be, uh, interesting. That said, this would be fairly typical of phone locator features on phones.)

(Source: itunes.apple.com)

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