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GPS tracking?
Question : GPS tracking?
My boss gave us new cell phones. How can we tell if the phones have GPS tracking? If it does have GPS tracking can it pinpoint our exact location.
gps tracking
Best answer:
Answer by yared
Well it really depends on the phone, but the only things I can say to really help you are:
1. I believe cell phones don’t automatically come with gps tracking, but it is a feature you have to buy/pay for.
2. If you want to find out if it has gps tracking, then you can-
A. ask your boss who bought the phones
B. look up your phones features and capabilities
C. call the service provider and ask them
3. I don’t think gps tracking is used to track people but instead to just get directions…. the only phone that I know that can track where people are is the disney phone and that was just in a commercial I saw that boasted that feature.
4. Assuming some how your phone has the feature to track where people are, I guess it could track where they are but I believe it just shows you their position on a map and possibly an address.
Just about every cell phone now has GPS capabilities. So if you were just given them, then most likely they are GPS enabled.
Discerning the location depends though. Ive seen some GPS that can locate within a general area, and others that can locate what street corner you are on, so I can’t answer that part of the question. sorry.
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In reply to the poster above me.
1. most phones do have GPS now.
2. I agree, asking the boss or looking it up will 100% answer if it has it
3. Most companies with GPS enabled phones do use uit to track locations of employees that may not be where they need to be. I know this because a close friend of mine is actually the person being paid by his company to look up where people are.
4. And yes, it just shows your location in the area, not necessarily what building you are in(assuming you are in a city)