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Old 03-31-2008, 03:35 PM
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Re: Family Locator app?

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Originally Posted by riironman View Post
so how would i go about using this on my daughters razor phone and my touch? neither of us has gps and i definetly dont want her knowing that i know where she is.
Actually.... you do have GPS, you just don't know it. All modern phones are mandated to do e911 services, which means that they have some form of location services built-in.

For example, my wife has a LG Fusic flip-phone... it's not advertised as a GPS phone... but by installing mGMAPS http://www.mgmaps.com/ she now has a phone with full GPS capabilities unlocked.

The bottom line is that you have to find an app that knows how to talk to the phone's internal location services. If I knew of one that was "stealthy" I'd make a recommendation but I'm not aware of anything at the moment.
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