Phone tracking is awesome, and comes in handy, really.
Aren't there any current features that can track our phones? I'm sure there's gotta be something out there.
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McGirk Posts: 2411
Phone Model: AX380 Wave
Service Provider: Alltel
Thu May 15, 2008 10:13 am
Sure there are, but you usually have to pay for them, and why would you want to have your phone tracked?
Bill Thomas Posts: 27
Sun May 18, 2008 9:06 pm
Well McGrik, I got 2 kids, and their young.
It would be nice to know incase they have lost their phone to know where it is.
Because they are on their third phone now, and it's getting a bit irritating.
McGirk Posts: 2411
Phone Model: AX380 Wave
Service Provider: Alltel
Mon May 19, 2008 9:15 am
They pay for the next one, and the lost phone problem will take care of itself. No one respects things they didn't have to pay for.
madison101 Posts: 668
Wed May 28, 2008 10:03 am
When I was growing up we never even heard of cell phones, granted I was born and brought up in the country and things were a lot safer then, and if mom wanted to track us, she yelled out the door lol
wcscenario Posts: 1
Sun Jan 18, 2009 11:10 am
My best friend is a Contractor and has had a wireless phone since the pre-cell 70's. Whenever I'm w/him, he gives me the "Shhhh" sign, and tells whomever called that he ".just left the job site, all the guys are working, and no, we covered it before the rain hit", etc etc. The jobs are all over LA and we're in Hawaii for some concert or whatever. Now, this is a brilliant guy, never ripped off a client, and is basically honest even w/the most irritating clients. But on April Fool's Day last year, i casually let it drop that todays cell phones all have "Tracking ability within 2 feet". I even enlisted his VP to tell me where he was, what tie he was wearing, etc. Now this is no local roofer: Clients are International, demanding, and projects are in the tens of millions of dollars. But after I "sorta made up" the video tracking, he'd (unbeknownst to me) been living in fear of one of his majors catching him in the tiniest fib. "Hey. You're at the mall---Aren't you supposed to be at." Well, I'd forgotten this prank until the Holidays, when he left the restaurant to go use a pay phone, leaving his own on the table--OFF. When he returned, I copped to the "April Fool's" that got out of hand, and he went white. Then confessed he'd been using the payphones in LA for 9 months due to my "Head's up!" If you've ever tried to find/use a public phone around LA, you'd better bring 2000 quarters and a Hazmat team. Did I mention he's also more terrified of germs than Niles Crane, and has been carrying surgical gloves to enable him to make the 100plus calls he needs to make daily--from a "Job Site" that's actually a "Starbucks"? I felt really badly-for about a minute-then we all laughed just visualizing this button-downed Developer jamming coins through bubble gum and probably even more disgusting human detritus just to lie about the "Plumber not showing up." Needless to say, had he been the type who ever thought about having a "Girl on the side", that fantasy quickly vanished once we all had "Video Trackers" on our phones. The only sad part is that we are seeing that day already. The Police-rightfully-can track suspects, and parents can paint a virtual circle around their children to make sure they are "at the library." Probably a good idea in those situations, but like everything else, it's a technology that will ultimately do more harm than good, once the "Bad Guys" figure it out how to turn it on "Joe Citizen." And don't even think about which direction the divorce stats are headed. Sometimes I think that just because we CAN-doesn't mean that we SHOULD. Then again, I was the guy who made his best friend think he was being GPS/Video stalked for nine months. I guess the moral is: "Always be where you say you are.Or find a carrier that advertises the "MOST DROPPED CALLS".
