MTN WhereRU versus Vodacom Look4Me

i also use google lattitude on wife and daughter's phone.
but without GPS, so it doesnt drain the battery so much... it not pinpoint accurate, i guess closest to nearest cell towers, but is good enough to know which area they are.
With BB data not extra charge, the data usage is also not an extra cost
Its a good Bigbrother tool :-)
But mainly used as emergency tool

VC and MTN's tool is also not GPS accurate, but to closest cell tower no?
 
While I like the idea of Google Latitude, the execution is a bit stupid - it doesn't need to update the whole time. I would rather request a location from my phone, send it to my wife's phone and have it get an accurate GPS location and come back to me. Find My Friends (Apple IOS app) works like this and it works well.

I guess the advantage with Google Latitude is that it can give you the last known location - useful if the phone is switched off (what usually would happen if the phone was stolen).

On BB I used an app called BuddyGaurd, but I think BlackBerry Protect pretty much does this now.
 
ebendl said:
While I like the idea of Google Latitude, the execution is a bit stupid - it doesn't need to update the whole time. I would rather request a location from my phone, send it to my wife's phone and have it get an accurate GPS location and come back to me. Find My Friends (Apple IOS app) works like this and it works well.

I guess the advantage with Google Latitude is that it can give you the last known location - useful if the phone is switched off (what usually would happen if the phone was stolen).

On BB I used an app called BuddyGaurd, but I think BlackBerry Protect pretty much does this now.
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Then you should use Where's my droid (Assuming you have an Android obviously). It allows you to send SMS to phone and phone will reply to SMS with GPS coordinates and url to MAPS location. If you misplaced your phone somewhere in the house and it's on silent, you can SMS Where's my droid and it will start making a noise.
 
boerseun said:
Then you should use Where's my droid (Assuming you have an Android obviously). It allows you to send SMS to phone and phone will reply to SMS with GPS coordinates and url to MAPS location. If you misplaced your phone somewhere in the house and it's on silent, you can SMS Where's my droid and it will start making a noise.
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Noted (if I get an Android in the future). Can you activate it with an email / GTalk message or something as well? SMS is fine, but will cost me 80c and the other methods nothing (just data). :P
 
I know it's not explicitly stated in the article, but the strength of these services is that they work on dumbphones without GPSes, and don't require an app to be running to work.

The weakness is that they cost quite a bit.
 
Using Find My Friends too and it works really well. Wish it updated a bit quicker tho. But I guess the CSI style instantaneous millimeter-accurate tracking is only available to movie sets.
 
recre8 said:
Using Find My Friends too and it works really well. Wish it updated a bit quicker tho. But I guess the CSI style instantaneous millimeter-accurate tracking is only available to movie sets.
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I'm guessing it is quite possible to do this, but since you are remotely requesting a user's location (without his knowledge, although with his consent), it is to save battery & data.

As far as I can tell, it waits for a request, activates the location services (including the GPS), gets the location, then sends an update back to the user and then deactivates the location services again. In theory they could keep it active and keep on sending you updates, but that would drain the other person's battery and cost them data.
 
recre8 said:
Using Find My Friends too and it works really well. Wish it updated a bit quicker tho. But I guess the CSI style instantaneous millimeter-accurate tracking is only available to movie sets.
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Try Glympse, you will be pleasantly surprised.

I am watching my Bro running errands around Palmerston North in NZ at the moment in real time. :cool:
 
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