How to Track Mobile Phones

So, you wish to track your mobile phone. You’ve either lost the big-ticket gadget and hope to get it back or are looking to keep track of the whereabouts of your kids for their safety. Or perhaps you’re a boss who likes to keep an eye on your precious employee working in a remote location all by herself? Whatever the reason, here we show you how exactly you can do that.

Method – 1:
‘Prevention is better than cure’ – Boy, do we love quoting proverbs or what! Well, there cannot be a more perfect juncture than this to quote this oft-repeated saying. If you’ve invested quite a lot of your hard earned money in an expensive mobile phone that you intend to hold steady at least for the next five years, it definitely is advisable that you take all measures to trace it back if it does get lost.

As it is with everything in life these days, the internet is the place to begin your tracking expedition. Mobile phone tracking services can be found in abundance in the internet. Such services require you to download a software in to your mobile phone for a small fee. The anti-theft software will let you lock your mobile phone in case it’s lost or stolen. Some software will also notify you if someone tends to remove the SIM card.

Method – 2:
If lost, your mobile phone can be tracked easily using GPS. If you do not wish to use a tracking software, you can install a tiny GPS chip in to the mobile phone you wish to track. The person’s whereabouts can be easily monitored using a software that can be downloaded in to your PC and can also be viewed on online maps.

Method – 3:
You’ve not installed any tracking software, nor have you inserted a GPS chip in your mobile phone which unfortunately, is lost. Now what do you do? Don’t panic. First and foremost, contact your service provider. They can track your phone within minutes using GPS technology if it’s being used with the same SIM card.

Method – 4:
If there’s anything new on the block, you see Google standing there before you can say geez. So, its no surprise that Google has an application for tracking mobile phones. ‘Google Latitude’ is the application in question that makes tracking down the location of a mobile phone as easy as it can get. Downloading the application in to your mobile phone is very easy. All you got to do is visit google.com/latitude and fill in a few fields.

Once the application is up and running in your mobile phone, all you got to do is add as many friends as you wish along with their email addresses. Thus, you can track the location of your friends no matter where they are. The advantage of this application is that, it does not require GPS to be present in your mobile phone. You can also view the location of your friends in your PC. So, in case you’ve lost your phone, quickly log on to the internet or grab hold of your friend’s phone to locate it.

Here are some useful mobile tracking service providers:
Wherify
uLocate
FollowUs
Mobile Locate
Loc8mobile
Google Latitude
Phone Guardian

Further Reading:

How To Trace a Mobile Phone Location with Google Latitude

Mobile Phone Tracking – Wikipedia

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