Smartphones are portable computers devices that combine mobile telephone and computing functions into one unit. They are distinguished from feature phones by their stronger hardware capabilities, extensive mobile operating systems, which facilitate wider software and internet (including web browsing over mobile broadband), multimedia, and gaming functionality, alongside core phone functions such as voice calls and text messaging.
Smartphones typically contain a number of metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) integrated circuit (IC) chips, include various sensors that can be leveraged by pre-included and third-party software (such as a magnetometer, proximity sensors, barometer, gyroscope, accelerometer and more), and support wireless communications protocols (such as Bluetooth, Wi-Fi or satellite navigation).
Early smartphones were marketed to the enterprise market, trying to bridge the functionality of standalone personal digital assistants with support for cellular telephony, but were limited by their bulky form, short battery life, slow analog cellular networks, and the immaturity of wireless data services.
These issues were eventually resolved with the exponential scaling and miniaturization of MOS transistors down to sub-micron levels (Moore’s law), the improved lithium-ion battery, faster digital mobile data networks (Edholm’s law), and more mature software platforms that allowed mobile device ecosystems to develop independently of data providers.
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As we can lose our smartphones anytime. It may have been stolen by someone or left somewhere. Smartphones are a part of daily life and contain many contents including images, videos and banking apps. If we lose our phone, we usually rely on the police. But the government itself has provided the facility to block our lost phone very easily. When blocked in this way, no one else will be able to use that phone.
If you lose your phone, report it and register a complaint with the police. Keep a copy of the complaint registered.
Get duplicate number of your phone number on lost phone. This number is required to block your phone. Duplicate SIM card will be activated within 24 hours.
Carry a copy of the complaint, any proof of identity, and the invoice for the purchase of the phone.
After www.ceir.gov.in visit the website , you can see the option Block Stolen/Lost Mobile in the red button. If this is selected then a form must be filled.
This includes mobile number, IMEI number, brand name, model and invoice.
Also the place of loss, date, place, police station, complaint number and copy of the complaint should be given.
Then you can submit the application to block the phone by providing the personal information and identification document of the owner of the phone.
After that you will get a request id. Use this to check whether your application has been processed.
The IMEI number you entered will be blocked within 24 hours. After that no SIM card will work in the phone. The CEIR website says that even if the phone is blocked this way, the police can track it.
If you get the phone back as we can see an unblock button on www.ceir.gov.in website. you can just click on it and give your request ID and also put the reason why you unblock it. after submitting your request you can put simcards in your mobile phones and use it back as normal.
