"Simon Finnigan" <SimonFinnigan@hotmail.com> wrote in
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> "JWBH" <blue.star777@REMOOOOVEvirgin.net> wrote in message
> news:1FAEh.33647$3a3.26391@newsfe6-win.ntli.net...
> > On the television the other day was something about how
> > thieves are using something electronic to find out if
> > someone has a satelite navigation system
> > hidden in their car. I didn't get any of the details
> > of it. I usually keep a cheap mobile phone in the glove
> > compartment of the car, as a spare.
> > Could similar means (what ever they were) be used to
> > pick up that my phone in inside? If
> > so I wouldn't leave it in the car.
>
> Most likely they`d be searching for a bluetooth signal
> from the GPS unit.

Eh..? How many phones in the UK even *have* GPS fitted..?

> If your phone has bluetooth then turn
> it off, and everything should be fine :-)

I have a spare 6210 in the car as an emergency spare. It's not been
switched on for the best part of a year, apart from when I fired it up
last week to make a call to keep it live. They'd have a hard job detecting
a phone that isn't switched on.

Ivor