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With the new OS 3.0 release Apple added a new feature, Find my iPhone (or iPod Touch) which accesses Core Location to find out exactly where your iDevice is.  Unfortunately, it requires a MobileMe subscription to be able to use it.  After finding this on TUAW I was reminded why I was able to justify the $60 I paid for MobileMe.

LiveJournal user Kevin Miller was in Chicago for a LEGO convention and after the long day Kevin and his friends went to an admittedly shady bar and Kevin left the iPhone inside at their table.  I don’t want to ruin the whole story for you so you should head over to the page and read through it as I felt it was an interesting story.  Just one big disclaimer though:  If you ever do this, BE CAREFUL! You don’t know if the person with your iPhone is carrying a knife and/or a gun.  While I’m happy to hear that he got his iPhone back and managed to do it safely, things could have been a whole lot worse.  I can just imagine now that somebody will try to do this with their lost iPhone and they’ll end up running into somebody slightly more dangerous and while they might get the phone back, they might not be walking away from the encounter.

Find My iPhone works, and it is awesome