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Volume 31 : Issue 189 : "text" Format
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Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2012 10:42:30 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Where Is David Pogue's iPhone?
Message-ID: <p0624082ccc44360a9918@[10.0.1.4]>
Where Is David Pogue's iPhone?
AUGUST 2, 2012
4:58 p.m. | Updated Not to ruin a good tale, but the phone was recovered.
On Monday night, I was taking the Amtrak train home from a "Nova"
shoot in Philadelphia - exhausted, but happy to have power and Wi-Fi
for my laptop.
As the train was about to pull into Bridgeport, Conn., my stop, I
checked my pockets - and my iPhone was gone. I was baffled; I hadn't
even stirred from my seat except to get something from the cafe car,
and I was sure to take my phone with me for that mission. Maybe I was
pickpocketed. Maybe I'd set it down to pay for the food. I don't know.
But now my phone was missing. The Amtrak conductor held the train for
about two minutes and helped me search around my seat - nowhere. She
dialed it from her own phone, too - no ringing sound, and nobody
answered. As the train pulled away, I used the Apple app, Find My
iPhone, on my laptop to see where the phone was. It said that the
phone was "offline." In other words, somebody had my phone -- it
wasn't lying under a seat somewhere - and had turned it off.
Anyway, I spent three days going through the five stages of phone
loss - denial, anger, bargaining, depression and kicking myself.
Then, suddenly Thursday, Find My iPhone sent me an e-mail, saying
that the phone was back online and had been located. It was in Seat
Pleasant, Md., which my Twitter followers informed me is a rough
neighborhood. The app created a map so I could see the house where my
phone was supposedly sitting.
Now what? I contacted the Prince George's County police department.
And I posted the map of the house to my 1.4 million Twitter
followers, who have never let me down.
...
http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/02/where-is-david-pogues-phone/
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