Cell phone tracking offers many benefits. It can help you recover a stolen or lost device. It can also help you find your location when you're traveling long distances, or when you want to keep tab of a member of family. You need not be a government agent to have a legitimate reason to use a phone tracker. Luckily, there are several tools and ways to do so, some you may want to pay for, but many are offered free. Following is a round up some phone tracking tools. 1. Google Latitude is a free cell phone tracking service that enables you to keep tab of your contacts. It allows you to locate their cell phones; their whereabouts are displayed on a Google Map. However, to do this, you need to download a Google App on your phone or computer. For ethical reason, you need to first obtain permission from your contacts before you track their phones. You can use the Google Latitude even though your phone is not a GPS-enabled device. GPS refers to Global Positioning System. If it's your phone that one of your contacts want to be tracked, you'll receive an email obtain this. And you might question whether to accept or reject it. It's important to know that even if you agree to be tracked, Google Latitude gives you the complete control to it. The permission can be turned off if you are traveling to places that you don't want to be known. The danger to this is that you may tend to forget to turn off the Google Latitude when you need to. 2. If your cell phone is GPS-enabled, you can install a software that enables cell phone tracking. There are instances when it will be better if the cell phone user will not know that his or her phone will be tracked; it all depends on a variety of reasons. Some location-based services such as Accutracking and uLocate. com offer telephone tracker software for reasonable or small fees. The newer cell phones such as BlackBerry, Motorola iDen, Boost Mobile, Windows Mobile, etc. curently have GPS chips on them. The older devices do not have them. If you are told that your phone can take a GPS chip, you can buy this from cell phone dealers, the manufacturer or online over at the internet. Just follow the written instructions in installing it. Phone trackers use more battery power, so it might require you to recharge your phone more frequently. Do check more about cop vsnl.net lost mobile and cop@vsnl.net. Other phone tracking software include the Pintail. If you've lost your phone, send it a message using other telephone just. Pintail will pinpoint your phone's location, send you a return message with its location and a link to the Google Maps. The InstaMapper can be used with BlackBerry and iPhone devices. This is a free service that allows you to track a GPS-enabled phone with a Google Map. The Apple's FindMyiPhone tool helps iPhone owners in tracking a stolen or lost cell phone. You need to subscribe to this one for an annual fee of $99, through MobileMe online service.
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