Google announces tool to track lost Android phones

Android owners will soon have a way to locate their lost devices. Later this month, Google will release a new app called Android Device Manager, which will allow Android users to locate their devices on a map in real time, activate their ringer, and even wipe their contents. It'll be available for all devices running Android 2.2 and up — which, at 98.7 percent of devices, is just about every one of them — and will require being hooked up to a Google account.

For Google, the move is a long time coming. Android has quite notably been missing a tool to let users remotely manage their lost devices, while others like Apple and Microsoft have already implemented such features on their mobile operating systems. Google's hasn't announced an exact release date yet for Android Device Manager,

Via: The Verge