chris_uk
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work have thought of an ingenious way to keep track of us all, and thats by giving us a phone with a tracker installed onto it.. now i'm not sure exactly how this would work so any ideas are helpful.
never really played with a PDA before, so im unsure whats good and whats not but its a HTC TyTN II P4550.
they say there is a tracker installed on the phone but i can see them thinking its going to be like something you see on the movies.. but im a bit dubious to wether of not they can track the phones movements or wether its just going to be a web based program that tells picks up on the phones GPS?? im just speculating as i have NO idea.
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John
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It will only be a program that reports it's GPS position over GPRS or whatever.
It is kinda like the movies though, they'll know exactly where the phone is.
[Edited on 15-06-2009 by John]
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dannymccann
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Have you given your boss a reason to track you? 
Cos if not its probably not legal 
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Neo
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Originally posted by dannymccann
Have you given your boss a reason to track you?
Cos if not its probably not legal
Probably legal on the grounds of "If the phone is stolen we can see where it has gone". Probably noted like that on their ISO9001
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TomTom do software like that for businesses so you can track your vehicles.
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bubble
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quote:
Originally posted by chris_uk
work have thought of an ingenious way to keep track of us all, and thats by giving us a phone with a tracker installed onto it.. now i'm not sure exactly how this would work so any ideas are helpful.
never really played with a PDA before, so im unsure whats good and whats not but its a HTC TyTN II P4550.
they say there is a tracker installed on the phone but i can see them thinking its going to be like something you see on the movies.. but im a bit dubious to wether of not they can track the phones movements or wether its just going to be a web based program that tells picks up on the phones GPS?? im just speculating as i have NO idea.
in a word yes.
its simply an agps system that will realtime tell whoever where you are. you can wrap kitchen foil around the phone though and mess with your bosses head 
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oceansoul
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all our work vans have trackers. They are shit. I had to call from my boss to ask why i had travelled over 500mph to southan france and back in my dispatch :/ i had gone under a bridge and the tracker went mad lol the map printout was....amusing lol
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Graham88
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^^^
Some of the guys at work just wrap it in tinfoil. It's not even if they are doing anything wrong it's just weird having somebody following your moves.
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noshua
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Can't you just disable GPS? or fuddle around with the GPS settings so they don't work?
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AlunJ
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or change the GPRS settings?
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John
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If they are using the phones as trackers they'll obviously see if he cuts the signal.
There are various ways to do it but all involve being caught.
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oceansoul
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Originally posted by John
If they are using the phones as trackers they'll obviously see if he cuts the signal.
There are various ways to do it but all involve being caught.
Leave it in a pocket or bag/briefcase. Surley the GPS needs line of sight to the sky to work :/
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John
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Depends what his job is and what the phone will be used for really.
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deano87
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Doesn't the new iPhone do this too? So yeah, I'd imagine it was quite possible.
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Bart
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Originally posted by deano87
Doesn't the new iPhone do this too? So yeah, I'd imagine it was quite possible.
This is possible on the current iphone. Although I can only imagine it drains the battery with GPS on ALL the time?
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John
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It's been possible on phones for years, the phone he's talking about is years old now.
The iphone has just marketed this as another new feature
On that phone it'll probably drain the battery quite quick, you can get it to only turn on to get a fix every once in a while, which wouldn't have much impact.
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I think what they're describing on the new iPhone is a different product; if were talking about the mobile me software. Also, the API doesn't allow software to run in the background like it would have to, or in fact, like you can on other phones.
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