Ah yes, screaming mobile phones. Now this is just what the doctor ordered! Ah, then again, perhaps not…

LONDON - An ear-piercing scream awaits would-be mobile phone thieves, and it won’t stop unless the battery is removed, rendering the phone inoperable.

Even if the thief replaces the phone’s SIM card, which holds the key data enabling mobile service, the handset will not work.

All customers’ information is centrally stored, so contacts, ringtones, pictures, texts and other data can be retrieved when a new handset is purchased. The Remote XT service costs about $18 a month.

The goal of the service is to make mobile phones useless to anyone but the rightful owner, said Mark Whiteman, the managing director of Remote XT.

“We’ll see the market for stolen handsets stamped out once and for all,” he said Source: AP