If you are just looking for cheap and free this is a GPS cell phone tracking service that you can use to track yourself and show your friends your location. They can do the same with you so you can always keep track of each other. Personally, it's a bit too 'goldfish bowl' for me, but it is a different world out there today. The site at buddyway.com uses Google Earth to map where on the planet you are. Some of the other features of buddyway are:
Track and save your trips - this can help with mileage tracking and you can also take notes as well.
View Your trips such as length, duration, speed, GPS coordinates,etc
Statistical charts for quick data reading
Personal notifications so you know exactly when you ended up somewhere
Share your trip with your friends
Save your trips to Google Earth
The site seems to operate almost painfully slow, but you can you ask for with a free service.
Their software works on the following cell phone models:
Blackberry
Iphone
PalmOS
Phones that use Java Mobile Application
Phones that use Windows Mobile Application
This service would be interesting to try out to cut your teeth on the use of cell phone tracking software. When you are ready for more, you can graduate to something different. For a free service, they do have some decent features.
Benefits of Cell Phone GPS Locators and GPS Tracking
I recently had a question to this web site that was the following: "My best friend is missing. I have her cell phone number. Can I find her exact location?"
I really wanted to help this individual but I didn't know the direct answer. I found this article that basically says that you can track people if they have the software on their phone and the service activated. Functionality and features also vary from service to service, so you may not get all of the information you may want. If anyone has any other information, please feel free to share it!
Are you a worrier when it comes to your precious children? Do
you wonder where your children are when they are not with you?
If you are such a parent, and many parents are, then you will
probably be very interested in the new technology that will
allow you to track your child's location through his or her cell
phone. Yes, that's correct, you can track your child's
whereabouts through a cell phone. This is achieved through the
communication of cell phone signals.
There are many advantages to having access to Cell Phone Gps
Locator technology. Not only can you track your child's
whereabouts, you can also potentially use the the technology to
find a misplaced or lost cell phone. For example, if the cell
phone was in a backpack, and the backpack is in the school gym,
cell phone gps locator technology could pinpoint the location of
the phone for you. Or, if your child calls you and says he's at
the library and he's really at a friend's house playing
Nintendo, you could know about it immediately.
Of course, in order to get hooked up to cell phone gps locater
technology, you will most likely need to invest in a new cell
phone, pay an activation fee and possibly an access fee. The
equipment and fees will vary by service provider, so the best
course of action is to shop around to find the best deal. In
addition, make sure that you fully understand any additional
fees that may be charged by your service provider for location
reports.
Bear in mind when you are shopping around for cell phone gps
locator service that some of the service providers only provide
aerial maps. This can be somewhat useful by giving the user a
general idea of the location of the cell phone, but a more
precise location could only be obtained through the use of a
street map which provides specific street names. Service
providers that use both aerial maps and street maps are
definitely superior.
Tracking can be done cell phone to cell phone or through the
subscriber's internet service. For example, you could track your
loved one's route from point A to point B on your computer,
giving you peace of mind. Or, you could use your cell phone to
track someone else with a cell phone through your wireless
network.
Whatever your need, a cell phone gps locator service can be a
useful tool.
This article by Madison Lockwood talks about how GPS tracking has been incorporated into cell phones, and how that can be helpful in emergency situations. As the demand for cell phone gps tracking grows, Cell phone providers have begun to offer gps tracking as an additional service to their customers. Is this the start of big brother, or an added convienence? This is a cell phone tracking service that is very affordable. $99 Real-time GPS Tracking Starter Kit
A few years ago, the FCC mandated that cell phones have GPS capacity or some form of location mechanism so that the phone and its operator could be located in the case of a 911 call. The law took effect at the beginning of 2005. Today, over one hundred million cell phones in this country have a chip that provides GPS capacity and increasingly, software services are emerging that put them to use.
GPS stands for Global Positioning Software and it simply means that an equipped device can be located by the satellites overhead in geosynchronous orbit that are built to pick up GPS signals. While the cell phone companies initially were reluctant to participate, they have begun to develop subscription services that provide software to help you use the tracking system.
The GPS technology without bells and whistles simply pinpoints the location of your cell phone. A techie named Chuck Fletcher developed a freeware program called Mologogo that allows one Mologogo equipped phone to locate other, similarly equipped phones. It's become a method for a few thousand cell owners to keep track of each other, but hasn't moved much beyond that.
Verizon and Sprint have developed subscription services that will allow your phone to pinpoint your location, complete with overhead map. It's a mobile driving assistance tool that should enjoy some degree of popularity. The cell phone companies have been reticent to provide general access to the GPS feature in their phones, because it can be a sensitive privacy issue - especially if you're somewhere you're not supposed to be.
More to the point, however, is the fact that the cell operators see the GPS technology as a potential profit center. One way to get driving directions with a GPS cell phone is to subscribe to a GPS navigation service. Nextel offers two: Televigation's TeleNav and Motorola's ViaMoto. Using the GPS and Nextel's network, TeleNav and ViaMoto can send driving directions to a Nextel phone. If you make a wrong turn or miss a street, the service detects that you're off the route and new route is calculated to put you back on track.
Aside from the basic mapping and location support, if you're a Sprint-Nextel customer you can subscribe to a service called Smarter Agent. This GPS supported technology is tied to a real estate database and can provide you with information on home sales in the neighborhood where you and your cell phone happen to be located. It will identify which homes have sold in the neighborhood in the last few years, and for what price.
Verizon has a service called getGOING. You can download applications such as AtlasBook Places. With AtlasBook Places you can get maps and directions and navigate to nearby places. An option is a web-based planning tool. These functions are available on selected Verizon phones.
There's an inherent privacy issue here that is a challenge for the major cell providers. Sprint-Nextel is the only company that has always allowed access to the GPS chips in its handsets. They have a strict privacy agreement with any third party service providers such as Smart Agent. If you download software that is not provided through Nextel, however, you have no such guarantee of privacy. This issue, aside from dollar signs, is what has kept GPS functionality largely an in-house development of the cell phone companies.
Madison Lockwood is a customer relations associate, specializing in small business development, for Apollo Hosting. Apollo Hosting provides website hosting, ecommerce hosting, vps hosting, and web design services to a wide range of customers.
This article talks about GPS cell phone tracking and how cell phones are being used to give GPS location services to cell phone users. Companies like Nextel are taking advantage of the new cell phone technology and adding GPS tracking and other location based services to their subscribers. Typically GPS tracking features on cell phones is usually reserved for smartphones, and is a feature that is not standard on these phones, but can be easily added later.
This is basically a system to locate the handheld when making a call to 911. In the mid to late 1990's, many people got cell phones just for the emergency use of being able to call for help almost anywhere. The problem came up when statistics showed that almost 92% of all serious 911 calls, (where the person was just barely able to make the call), they either didn't know where they were or was unable to tell the 911 operator where they were, or they might not have been able to talk at all. This caused a big concern, 911 operators couldn't do anything but listen to the person on their cell phone as they pass away. The Location Sensitivity system still doesn't work if you are in an area that only has an analog signal.
(Which is the older cellular system of the mid 1990's and earlier). Most metropolitan areas and all interstate freeways are covered by the newer digital service. It's just when you get out in the middle of no-where, you might end up with an analog signal. Most!phones will display the letter "A" in the top right or left corner when using this system. Check your phone documentation, some phones don't even have this capability.
Which means if you get into one of these areas, you can't make any type of call what-so-ever.Soon, the Location Sensitivity feature will probably be offered by the cellular companies as part of their pricing plan. Some carriers like Nextel are already taking advantage of this new technology by giving customers a GPS location service along with their calling plan. If you don't have this option with your carrier, and you have a Smartphone you can always purchase one of the SD slot GPS units that works with mapping software. The program I've really enjoyed is Mapopolis, which works great with most of the popular GPS hardware available. And most even have a voice activation that will tell you where to turn, which is directed through the speaker phone portion of the Smartphones.
The ability to have GPS information and mapping on your handheld will be a great plus while traveling.Back to the Location Sensitivity. I'm just wondering how much the cellular companies are going to charge for such a GPS type service!? I'm sure they're all working hard right now on the new pricing plans that we'll have to pay if you don't have the GPS hardware to install on your Smartphone.Find anything in your portfolio in seconds, anywhere - anytime, send an email with "ebook" in the subject to receive a free version of the ebook at: ebook@robertlett.comWhen these services become available, they will only be location based. Another words, most GPS's these days will actually give you your current altitude and most have a pretty fast refresh rate. The refresh rate is the time between position updates. An example; If you have a GPS in your hand that refreshed three times per second, this would be a very acturate reading.
Even if you are driving at 70 miles per hour, the moving map on the GPS will be able to keep up with your actual location. That's an issue the engineers are dealing with on the Location Sensitivity system. It wasn't designed to have any type of refresh rate at all. Once a position has been found, it never was designed to refresh that position. (I guess if you are hurt, and you called 911, you aren't supposed to be moving.
Hmmm, So if you fell off a bridge, and landed in the back of a truck driving down the interestate, I'm not sure if they would be able to locate you. They would know where you were when you!first dialed 911, but as your location changes, they might not be able to find you). Supposedly, the 911 operator can pull a refresh, this would at least tell them the direction the vehicle is moving. But to locate you while you're moving, might be more difficult than anyone had expected.Another problem with many of the handheld units, the actual speed of the processors within them. Most cell phones operate on around 1 to 2 MHz processor speed.
Most Smartphones operate anywhere between 30 to 500 MHz. (Most new home computers are operating between 2 to 4 GHz processor speed, just to give you an idea). This is where the engineers are running into the biggest problem with creating a GPS refresh rate. The processors in all handhelds will just have to be faster than they are today. And like all of our other technolgies, I'm sure this won't be a problem very much longer for the designers.Hmmm, soon we'll have Pentium 9 cellular and Smartphones running at 8 GHz processor speed! You know it's going to come to this, and it's not that far away.To see how to use your handheld like a professional, send an email with "ebook" in the subject to receive a free version of the ebook at: ebook@robertlett.comFind out more of what it's all about: www.robertlett.com/whatisit5.htmThis document is under Copyright through Infinite Data.
You have permission to copy this document in its' entirety and make duplicates. You may not change, add, or edit anything within the document. Thank you for your help.Subscribe to our free Newsletter, email us at: subscribe@robertlett.comIf you have any submissions or questions, please email us at: palm@robertlett.comwww.robertlett.comAn Individual Armed with InformationControls the Course of NegotiationHave it all with you, ANYTIME - ANYWHERE.
Robert Lett has operated his 25 year old company Infinite Data for the past 4 years with nothing more than a handheld Smartphone. As a public records research specialist, I need to have all my important files with me when ever I speak with a client. I now carry all those files with me 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, hanging on my belt. I haven't sat at my desk in front of my computer for over 3 years. Be productive 24/7, anywhere - anytime.palm@robertlett.com
This is a good article where the author Alan Chestnutt gives the basics about cell phone GPS tracking and how it works. It goes through some history as to why GPS tracking technology now enables cell phones to be tracked, and some examples of the uses of cell phone tracking. A good followup to this article would be to go into detail about the future uses of GPS cell phone tracking. Affordable cell phone tracking service $99 Real-time GPS Tracking Starter Kit
The development of communications technology has long since
surpassed the sole ability to access others when they are
mobile. Today, mobile communication devices are becoming much
more technologically advanced and offer more than the ability to
just carry on a conversation. Cell phone GPS tracking is one of
those advances.
GPS or Global Positioning System tracks your location by
interpreting the data received from 3 or more satellites. This
has made GPS a popular feature in cars as a navagational aid.
All cell phones constantly broadcast a radio signal, even when
not on a call. The cell phone companies have been able to
estimate the location of a cell phone for many years using
triangulation information from the towers receiving the signal.
However, the introduction of GPS technology into cell phones has
meant that cell phone GPS tracking now makes this information a
lot more accurate.
With GPS technology now more commonplace in many new cell
phones, this means that the location of anyone carrying a
compatible cell phone can be accurately tracked at any time.
Cell phone GPS tracking can therefore be a useful feature for
business owners and fleet managers who need to be able to keep
track of their vehicle movements.
Cell phone GPS tracking can also be a useful feature to the
emergency services or police when responding to a 911 call from
a GPS cell phone. For this reason, the FCC has legislated that
wireless networks provide location information for 911 calls
made from cell phones. These are known as E911 calls.
As technology advance even further, future features will be even
more powerful. Imagine GPS cell phones used as a navigational
device. Based on the cell phone GPS tracking signal, they could
be used to find your way to a location, calculate your speed
based on your location change over time, from this calculate
your estimated arrival time, suggest an alternative route and
even phone the person you are calling to see with your ETA! Of
course in car GPS navigation systems can already perform many of
these tasks, however it is the portability of cell phones that
makes them so useful for this technology.
Cell phone GPS tracking could also be used to locate the
whereabouts of your children and offer protection to elderly
relatives should something happen and they need urgent
assistance.
These features will help to secure the future of cell phone GPS
tracking providing advantages for all.
This article illustrates new features that are being offered with GPS mobile tracking. This feature stemmed from the demand of consumers wanting to have GPS mobile tracking capabilities on their phone because some cars don't have the capability to add GPS tracking to their vehicles. Adding GPS tracking to mobile phones became the next best solution.
San Diego, CA (PRWEB ) October 19, 2004 – The idea is simple. If you need help, simply press one button and be connected to a live Personal Assistant standing by just for your call. Tell the Personal Assistant what you need and they will stay on the phone with you until your problem is solved. If you don’t know where you are, your Personal Assistant may be able to pinpoint your location to within just a few feet.
Unfortunately, until now, this type of service is only available if you owned a 1996 or later, OnStar®-equipped vehicle. Obviously, you also have to be physically located inside that vehicle to utilize the service and, when you sell your vehicle, the system goes with it.
In response to the huge demand from drivers who don’t own a suitably equipped vehicle - and from individuals who can want a portable one button communications system - Clayton Communications, Inc. has introduced the world’s first SafeGuardian™ One Button GPS Cell Phone.
SafeGuardian™ One Button GPS Cell Phone is a small, lightweight battery powered cell phone with a built-in GPS locator. It easily fits into a vehicle glove box or clips to the visor. The most impressive feature is that it is designed to go wherever you do. Clip it to your belt, drop in into a purse or move it between vehicles, it provides one button protection and convenience even when you are miles from you car.
The device is activated with just one push of the single oversized red “call” button on the front. Within seconds, a live “personal assistant & emergency dispatcher” answers the call 24 hours a day. The personal assistant can immediately dispatch local police, fire, paramedics or roadside assistance and much more.
The cell phone is “GPS–enabled” allowing the assistance center professionals to perform a “locate” in the event emergency assistance is dispatched to help the caller, if the caller is lost or in need of directions. When a clear view of the sky is available, the built-in GPS locator is accurate to within 30 feet.
“If you need help and call “911” from your regular cell phone, the 911 operator does not know who you are, where you are or have access to any information about you. Additionally, 911 service is reserved for true emergencies only.” said Thomas C. Franks, President of Clayton Communications, Inc., “The SafeGuardian Personal Assistant who answers your call addresses you by name, has all your important information that you have provided at their fingertips (names, phone numbers, medical information, etc) and are waiting to provide whatever assistance you may need.”
Designed for much more than just emergencies, the SafeGuardian™ One Button GPS Cell Phone also provides a wide variety of safety and convenience features. Callers can request to be connected to anyone worldwide, store important information (names, telephone numbers, medical information, etc) for quick contact, receive turn-by-turn driving directions and even request location and directions to any local business or facility including hospitals, doctors, dentists, restaurants, gas stations, hotels, etc.
The device is small (5” x 2” x 1”), lightweight (6 ounces), and uses commonly available lithium batteries (no charging required) that can last for months. It retails for $199 and the monthly service plan is just $34.95. The company offers free activation and free emergency calls. Non-emergency and optional concierge calls are $1.25/minute.
“Independent, active seniors also are finding the phone is a great companion when they are alone. They like the ease of use and the feeling of safety and security they feel knowing they can get assistance anytime and anywhere with the push of one button” continues Mr. Franks, “It truly makes a great gift for any aging parent who would never buy or use a regular cell phone.”
The SafeGuardian™ One Button GPS Cell Phone works anywhere in the United States that has analog cellular service available. Clayton Communications offers a free 30 day money back guarantee to all subscribers. For more information or to order, visit www.safeguardian.com or call 800-378-2957.
OnStar® is a registered trademark of OnStar Corporation
This article, the author Anne King, seems to uncover the fact that by 2006, all cell phones must have some sort of GPS tracking capability. Due to the 9/11 requirenemts, cell phone carriers such as Sprint, must be able to track the location of the caller within a specific range. The use of GPS phone tracking can be used to locate kids, hikers, and other kinds of people. Cell PHone Tracking Service is now quite affordable. $99 Real-time GPS Tracking Starter Kit
Motivated by the events of 9/11 2001 and problems with 911 calls from cellular phones, the FCC requires that by the end of 2005 all cell phone carriers must be able to trace the location of cell phone calls to within a range of no more than 100 meters. Cell phones are already available with GPS technology installed. These systems are not the same as the GPS devices used by hikers, mariners and drivers. Lower cost models do not allow the user to enter data such as mapping software. All systems require a wireless network. Cell phones with GPS technology use AGPS (Assisted Global Positioning System).
Assisted because the system uses both cell phone towers and satellites as location finders. There are advantages and disadvantages in the new technology. The cost to implement the program will be passed on to consumers -– cell phones will cost more. Privacy is a real concern with the general public especially in this day of identity theft. It is a concern that unknown people will be able to access your location.
Potential Problems with GPS Phone Tracking
Also there is a possibility that the spam you are flooded with on your home computer will now be sent to your cell phone. Using GPS cell phones to track people has some great advantages. Locating kids and family can be a blessing. Remember though, if you try to locate someone who is out of your calling area, you will be charged extra. The obvious benefit for the consumer is the issue of emergency aid and that was the catalyst for this whole idea of GPS cell phones. A 911 call that can be quickly located, emergency roadside assistance, locating persons missing in remote areas, the list goes on.
If coverage is available then GPS cell phones save lives. Many carriers already have GPS cell phones available. You can buy the basic model for emergency tracking or you can pay for the technology that turns the cell phone into a sophisticated mapping, PDA system. Problems are still an issue with the advanced features. The more you use the advanced features, the greater the drain on the battery. Increasing battery size also increases the cell phone size and that is a problem for most consumers who want ever smaller, lighter devices to carry around.
At this time Japan seems to have the edge on developing the high-end miniature GPS cell phone. Sacrificing privacy for safety is the issue and I suspect that it would only take one positive outcome in an emergency situation to make the decision for you. As the systems become more and more refined camera and PDA capabilities are being included into the phone itself. Developments in GPS cell phone technology are continuing. If programmers can solve the issues of privacy then the potential for GPS cell phones is incredible. It will no longer be an issue of "Can you hear me now?" Rather the question will be, "Can you find me now?
Anne King is a sports and recreation writer in Boise, Idaho. For more information on GPS cell phones, visit Maps GPS Info.com which also provides practical information on GPS and maps that everyone can use. The website includes product reviews and a maps/GPS glossary.
Did you find the information you were looking for?
Did
you find the information you were looking for?
Ask your question here.
GPS Tracking and Telematics
Coming Soon! A GPS Tracking
and Telematics newsletter.
E-mail
Instructions:
Your privacy always
comes first and your email address is never shared
with anyone EVER.
Coming Soon!
How to easily track your child
You can easily track your child or loved one with small gps tracking devices that double as cell phones. A good useful , can bring peace of mind to parents.
