"Ivor Jones" <ivor@despammed.invalid> wrote in message
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> "Simon Finnigan" <SimonFinnigan@hotmail.com> wrote in
> message news:54g3asF20nc5dU1@mid.individual.net
>> "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..?

Where did I say the phone had bluetooth fitted? I use my mobile phone with
TomTom installed, and a bluetooth GPS unit. A lot of units like the TomTom
have bluetooth to allow them to work as a hands free kit for your phone.
All of this would result in a bluetooth signal being detectible outside your
car.

>> 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.


In which case it isn`t transmitting anything on bluetooth, so it won`t be
picked up.

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