PSA - related to lost cell phones

[clh2]

My PSA for the day is: if you carry a cell phone - have some "easy" to find contacts or contacts listed in "ICE" that if your cell phone gets lost, that you are easy-to-find.

I coach a high school team, and we were in Knoxville TN last week. ONe of my seniors lost his phone on Saturday night, the last night of the event. His phone was most likely on the UT campus. Somewhere. He did try to find it, assuming it fell out of his pocket on the sand-volleyball court. NOPE - nothing doing with that attempt.

On Sunday morning, his mom got a call (she had already left TN to return from Wisconsin) from a person who found the phone. The finder looked at the contact list for any type of number - under MOM, DAD, or Grandma. The mom contacted a different team mom, who hadn't left Knoxville yet, and the 2nd mom picked up the phone on her way home. YEAH!!! a happy ending!!!

And to the person who took the time to get the phone back to the correct owner...YOU ROCK!!! Thank you!!!!

 

[lacrosse_lady72]

On my screen when my blackberry is locked it has a few phone numbers and my address, I'm definitely easy to find.

I usually look for parents or "home". If not, I look through the recent call list and call the most called. I have lots of experience in locating people to match them back up with their phones as I work in a restaurant.

You'd be amazed at what some people leave behind, how many times people leave things behind... and what some people never come back to claim. This is how I got myself a Nintendo DSI.

 

[NotUrsula]

The simplest thing to do is to put that ICE or IF_FOUND number in so that it is pinned to the top of the contacts list. This is easy to do - just put a period in front of the name entry.

This way, all the finder or emergency responder has to do is open the phone's contact list; it will be the first thing they see.