The way to Stop Smartphone Robbery

Smartphone theft - In-a drive to suppress [sell-phone][1] robberies, the city of Bay space and prosecutors for fresh House of York state aforesaid on weekday they prepare to speak with business representatives to encourage them to put in changes to eliminate taken [upcoming android phones][2]
Bay space prosecuting Officer Saint George Gascon and NY prosecutor General Eric Schneiderman aforesaid they will meet on June thirteen with associates of the four greatest [smartphone][3] producers.
They aforesaid they will raise the to place "kill switches" on cellular devices to create them inoperable once taken, removing any incentive for theft.
"With 1.6 million Americans falling prey to [upcoming android phones][4] theft in 2015, it's become a epidemic," Gascon aforesaid during a record. "Unlike different kinds of violations, Android Phone theft can be expunged employing a basic technical answer."
Gascon and Schneiderman aforesaid reps of Apple, [Nexus][5], Google's smart-phone producer Motorola quality, Samsung and Microsoft may attend the summit in NY.
Last month, 2 men in Bay space seriously cut-a 27-year-old tourist's face and neck whereas taking his iPhone. In Apr 2012, a cook was killed whereas being robbed of his iPhone on his manner home to The Bronx.
"The theft of transportable devices could also be the fastest-growing street crime, and considerably, things square measure turning violent," Schneiderman aforesaid. "It is time for producers to become as innovative in determination this issue as a result of they need practised making product that have reformed however precisely we tend to live."
Associates for Samsung, Apple, [Nexus Mobile][6], Microsoft, Google and a smart-phonesbusiness team each declined to comment o-r weren't instantly offered for comment.
Schneiderman and Gascon have each criticized the business for what they see as its perceived temperament to resolve the matter.
This past year regarding 5-0% of Bay space robberies enclosed taken AndroidPhones, Gascon aforesaid. A current study discovered that lost and taken [smart-phone][7] worth $30 million to customers in 2012, his company aforesaid.
Some businesses have steps in spot to urge back smartphones mistreatment their rightful homeowners. as an example, Apple gets the software system realize My iPhone that enables an individual to observe a system on the chart and slightly secure it o-r take away info.
A information is formed for taken cellphones, however police say its use is restricted as a result of so they cannot be simply recognized as taken, supported a House of York Times report from would possibly several taken product square measure sent overseas or altered