Recovery
Pintail
What would you do if you lost your new T-Mobile myTouch? Well, thanks to the Pintail myTouch app, you can prompt your lost or stolen myTouch to send an SMS to a friend’s device that pinpoints its location and a nice link to Google Maps to help you locate it quickly. You configure the app with a secret personal pin number. Let’s say your pin number is “4751″. When you lose your myTouch, you simply use your friend’s phone to send an SMS to your lost phone with the text: “locate 4751″ and your lost or stolen myTouch will send back an SMS to your friend’s phone with the current location.Â
 
This is one of the best myTouch apps out there, and it works like a charm. But the following conditions need to be true for it to send back the current location: your myTouch needs to be on, and your GPS or cellular radio (for triangulation) must be on. Leaving the GPS on can drain your battery pretty quickly, so if your myTouch is lost or stolen, you would want to send the SMS quickly before the battery drains out. If you share your pin number with family or friends, they can then query your current location with an SMS. A great little app for the myTouch.
