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Nearly two-fifths of robberies in London last year were for mobile phones
(www.theguardian.com)
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Genuine question, don't both iPhones and Androids lock out users if they're unable to provide the password? In that case are most of these stolen phones sold for parts?
That's a feature to protect user data not to prevent the phone being reused. Wipe the device and it's brand new (unless the device ID is reported and the phone blacklisted by the networks somehow, but that relies on the owner and the authorities being faster than the thieves, I'd imagine).
Not sure about Apple devices, but for Android there's FRP (factory reset protection). Basically, if an Android phone which has FRP enabled has at least one Google account signed in, after factory reset, the phone is locked unless it signs into one of the Google accounts previously in use.
I cannot find documents about FRP from Google, but here's one from Samsung, and I'm pretty sure it's not limited to Samsung.
https://www.samsung.com/ph/support/mobile-devices/what-is-device-protection-or-factory-reset-protection-frp/
I ran into this on my phone when I forgot the pin and tried to factory reset. However I know my Google password so it was quite simple, but I don't know how thieves get past this.
Its easy, I forgot my pin and found a Video in YouTube. But I took a different path and it worked. After that I installed GrapheneOS.