Interesting question you ended your post with. To illustrate: DH left his cellphone at a hotel and realized it too far down the road to go back and get it. So he called me and asked me to report it lost- assuming, like the pessimists we are, that it would never be seen again. I did report it, online, and they sent me an email saying their GPS knew exactly where the phone was, even tho DH had disabled the GPS function on his phone!