What do you usually use GPS for? For most of us, it gives us directions while commuting. But there are other uses of it as well. Namely, parents can keep a tab on their children. Friends are able to know about the other’s hangouts. Of course, it is a boon for travelers as they get all the information and directions they need. But it has another very important use, tracking your lost phone.
But what is mobile tracking really? Free Cell phone tracking or GPS tracking can track and detect a mobile phone anywhere in the world. (Even if it is on the move!)
Mobile Phone Tracking – How it Works?
A Cell phone tracking system detects the nearest cell phone tower to the phone, calculating the difference of distance interposing signals in the middle of adjoining antenna towers to deduce accurate approximation.
So, can you track your phone? Certainly, with the use of the following tracking solutions.
Mologogo – Your Very Own Cell Phone Tracking Solution
Mologogo is the tracking solution you need and to activate that all you really need a GPS enabled the phone. You can track it as long as the phone is operational. Once you download the software to the phone, updates are sent to the Mologogo website and voila! You can track the cell phone and you will get the information of the whereabouts of the phone.
LocateA.net – A Free Cell Phone Tracking Solution
What if you are a non-smartphone user? Well, LocateA helps you in this regard. It will turn your Java-enabled mobile phone or even your PDA Mobile Phone running Windows time into a tracking solution, so you can track employees, people, or your children etc. completely free.
Prey – Free GPS Cell Phone Tracking
Prey is another popular phone tracking software service that is free and can be used for PCs and phones. If you want to use any other device you can do so by using their paid plans. Sync and use it before you end up losing your phone. Use this before you lose this. Whenever you lose your phone, log into the computer and start tracking your phone. Not only that, you can get reports complete with pictures taken from your device, you can trigger off an alarm or lock your device, just sitting pretty at your home.
Track Phone with Spy Phone Labs
Spy phone labs use the GPS to track your phone’s location. Besides that, it gives a lowdown on all the call details and the entire details of the web activity and text messages. You can avail this app on Android and iOS. As soon as you install it, the tracking information will be immediately available on the website, provided you have already made an account.
iOS Phone Trackers
For iOS, the Find my iPhone App lets you use another iOS device to find your lost iPhone on a map. It can protect your private data while displaying a message, and play a loud noise, although for a few minutes, even if you had set your iPhone on silent mode, previously. If that wasn’t enough you can remotely lock it as well. Navizon is another app that searches for your lost or stolen iPhone with a live locating system and it’s free. The Find My Friends app is a great iPhone device tracker as well. You can locate your lost iPhone on your family members’ or close acquaintances’ iPhone (If you have added their names previously). You will be able to locate it either on a list or a map, that too for free.
For Android Phone Trackers
For Android phone owners, Wave Secure and Mobile Defense are great apps to track their lost phones using some great GPS based apps. Install these phones before you lose the phone. Wave secure also helps lock your phone remotely.
PS: If you have already lost your Android smartphone and haven’t had the chance to download these apps, you can install the app and track the lost smartphone from any computer. If your phone is connected to the internet, the app will be immediately installed on the phone and as soon as the installation is complete, your current location information will be transferred to your Gmail account.
Track Lost BlackBerry & Windows Phone
For BlackBerry, there are Moostrax and the appropriately named Phone Tracker – Anti Theft and tracking.
Also, the BlackBerry Protect service is also useful in tracking your lost phone. It runs like the ‘Find my iPhone’ and ‘Android Device Manager’, but before you do lose your phone, you will have to click on the BlackBerry Protect and activate the tracking service on first. Then track your BlackBerry by logging in to the BlackBerry Protect website, and you will be able to locate your lost device on the View Location map.
For Windows Phone users the Microsoft’s My Phone service helps accurately track your phones. With the above-mentioned apps, you may track your phone without the help of a third party. Hopefully, these would turn out to be fruitful solutions for you.