How to trace a Cellphone Location

Tracing a cell phone location has many implications. The act may have many ramifications - some good, some bad and some plain ugly. When you do not wish the person who you are in contact with via your cellphone know where you are you may, in all innocence, tell him you are in the queue to make an airline booking when you are in reality with your friends on the beach with a beer bottle in hand, eying the girls passing by. It is also possible that may you know your assistant is moonlighting in the back office of the local convenient store, but he swears that he is in your factory counting nuts and bolts. Both lies can be nailed by Google Latitude, the application that smartphones and BlackBerry Tablet make use of to trace calls. With this app you can no longer deceive and be deceived. The technological leap into the future is here in the present. Internet applications can do wonders.

The best thing about Google Latitude is that you do not have to shell out a large sum of money to acquire this equipment. A basic network of all the mobile phones in question can be built up using in a GPS network. If you want to know where Jim, your boy friend is, all you have to do is call him on his smartphone and instead, of pestering him to answer you truthfully about his whereabouts, you can refer to Google Maps in your smartphone and see for yourself exactly where he is. If someone is missing or may be in some danger, his cell phone will become his lifeline by which rescuers can find him.

It is getting better and bigger. MakeUseOf, a technology with applications like BuddyWay and NavXS and the newer Cellular Triagulation Technology will make the task of tracing cellphone locations easier. The PDA and the smartphone or touchphone needs to be GPS enabled. That will mean that only smartphones like the iPhone or Windows Mobile 5.0+ can be used for this purpose.

There are software programs available that are capable of detecting the location of a cellphone. However, there are also fakes around, which you would do well to check before buying. Some, like Spybubble, are reliable. Some programs even let you know the location of a cellphone without the owners of the particular cell phone becoming any the wiser.

There are a few service companies which do the tracing for you, for a small fee. While this enables you to hand the responsibility to someone else and lets you go about your business, your privacy takes a beating, as you will need to provide some information which may not be ideal. You must be careful and check to see if the company is licensed to do this type of work.