Smartphones are now useless to steal. OPPO embedded the password in an unexpected place

Smartphone theft is still common, and manufacturers deal with this problem in different ways. The iOS system, for example, allows you to track the gadget even after turning it off, and the Chinese company OPPO went the other way and built the password in an unexpected place – it appears when you try to turn off the smartphone.

The author of TechRadar India noticed an innovation in the ColorOS firmware – if you activate it, then when you try to turn off the smartphone, a password entry window will be displayed (the same as that set to unlock the gadget). This feature is designed to protect against thieves, because they first try to turn off the device so that it cannot be tracked remotely.

By and large, this function is unable to completely eliminate the problem of theft, because the smartphone can still be sold for spare parts. In addition, it is not clear what will happen if the battery is pulled out.

Readers of the Indian blogger report that such functionality is no longer new – for example, there is something similar in Samsung’s One UI firmware.

Source: Trash Box

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