The cool and long-awaited antitheft application by Samir, nAlertMe, is finally out and available for free from The AikonLab Website.

Some months ago, the talented french developer, Samir, showed his new antitheft application for Symbian, nAlertMe.

nAlertMe is "an accelerometer-based freeware application that sounds a loud alarm", when any unauthorized movement of the mobile phone is detected.

So, imagine yourself reading or studying at the university, or taking a drink in a pub. Very ofter people (and me too), put their phones on a table; with the risk of theft by someone that could quickly grab your phone without having the time to react or to notice the theft.

nAlertMe makes the theft very difficult: if the phone is taken, just after a couple of seconds a very loud siren plays, and it is only possible to stop it by swithching the phone off. But in that case, the thief will not have the time to think, and will probably prefer to drop the phone down and start running, before everybody get on him!

So, how could we take our phone without making the siren play? Simply, to deactivate the alarm you must put your phone in a defined positions sequence, like showed in the picture on the left.

You can view nAlertMe in action in the video below, and you can download the application, directly on the AikonLab website. Please notice that the software is not signed.

To get a signed version, you will need to make a donation to Samir (and I think he deserves it!)

nAlertMe – DOWNLOAD HERE