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

The Guys from All About Symbian are always writing something interesting. I usually visit their blog more than once a day, and I always find something interesting to read.

Today Rafe is trying the new N78 by Nokia, and the first part of his detailed review is online, talking of the Hardware and Connectivity. I would suggest you to take a look at it, if you are interested in buying one ( and even if not).

I’m already waiting for the second part.

Imagine this story: You are sitting in the train (or in the bus, subway etc.) awaiting your return home after an hard working day. You are very tired, so you put on your headphones and start to listen some cool mp3′s on your brand new Nokia N95 8gb. But when you are arrived to the stop, you stop listening and put your phone in the pocket. There’s plenty of people that are coming off the train/bus/metro with you. Somebody touch you on the right, on the left. Somebody pushes you, but you don’t care, this is happening almost every day. But just minutes after, you remember you were listening to music. You open the pocket and…. there is nothing inside!

This is an invented story, but well, not really. This really happened to me. Unfortunately, at that time I had not an S60, and, more important, Guardian by Marco Bellino was still not here. So I lost my phone forever. But today, everything has changed. If this happened to me today, the first thing would be that, just some minute after the phone is stolen, the thief would change the sim card inside the phone with his own sim card. He would think that "the number is changed, and nobody can contact me".

If you have Guardian, this is wrong.

When somebody changes the sim card in your phone with Guardian, an invisible SMS is sent to a pre-configured number (your second number, your mom, your girlfriend) telling the phone number of the thief, and many other info like, for example, the sim card identifier code and the cell-id. But there’s more… With Guardian being active, when the sim is changed, you can remotely lock your messages, pictures, contacts or any other personal info. He will not be able to access your data. And there’s more…. with Guardian Plantinum edition, the phone’s GPS is automatically enabled in total stealth. A simple sms sent to the thief number, that is totally invisible, will retrieve all the GPS localization data, and you will be able to immediately locate your phone on Google Maps. This is the killer feature, you can know in real time where your phone is. Just go, and retrieve it! Many more options are included: GPS tracking (real time position tracking each X minutes); application locks; remotely delete your contacts/sms/photo/video. Those are just few examples. And you can retreive the thief’s contact book, sent/received calls and messages. And all this without being noticed. Or, if you want to, you can remotely start an ultra-loud siren, or you can send a fake sms to the thief. Guardian Comes with three different versions: Guardian Free, Guardian Gold, Guardian Platinum.

• The Free version is provided at no cost
• The Gold costs 12.50 Euros
• The Platinum only 19.50 Euros

I personally think that the Platinum is the better version, because it enables GPS tracking. This is a killer feature that could really save your phone. It’s not an insurance, but, we are not far from… And Now there’s a surprise: if you were intersted enough to read the whole post, even if it was long, that means that you would like to have Guardian on your phone. And you are not far from, because today I got from Marco Bellino 5 free retail Guardian Licenses to give away on my blog: I have 2 Platinum licenses, and 3 Gold licenses. I’m giving away the 2 platinum first, then the 3 gold ones. All the available licenses have been assigned. Thanks for partecipating. To win a license, all you have to do is go and visit the Guardian Website; go to the "Download page" and scroll down. Find ONE of the features of Guardian listed in the comparison chart; copy it and come back here; leave a comment under this post writing down the feature. The first 2 comments that match the requirement will gain a Platinum License; from 3rd to 5th, will gain a Gold License. No way of leaving more than one comment each, I will not give more than one license per person. Don’t forget to include your email address, I will use it only to mail you the registration code.

http://www.guardian-mobile.com/

Get the Free version here

And, for all the others, here’s a nice tip: Use this Link provided by P@sco, and you will be able to purchase Guardian with -30% off! (Special Promo Until May 18): Gold edition only 8.75 Eur, and the Platinum only 13.65 Eur!