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Although cell phone GPS trackers are not as accurate as traditional GPS trackers, they can still be used to catch thieves as one teenager in Seaholm, England discovered recently.

Cell phones = Short Battery Life

Cell phone GPS tracking devices have a few faults other than their lack of accuracy. The GPS tracker runs off the same battery as everything else on the phone. With today’s high-tech phones that can do everything except cook your food for you, batteries do not always last long. Having a short battery life can make it impossible to track anything with a cell phone GPS tracker. On the other hand, traditional GPS tracking systems don’t perform multiple functions. They just track. They track location, speed, and direction of travel and send all this information to a satellite. The simplicity of these tracking devices makes them more reliable than cell phone trackers, because their batteries can be trusted. Another problem with cell phone GPS trackers is that their battery can easily be removed by the thief. Traditional GPS trackers rely both on satellites and on cellular towers for pinpoint accuracy.

Schoolmate Busts Friend for iPhone Theft

Jacob Rothenberg, a high school freshman from Seaholm, England used his cell phone GPS tracker to locate his cell phone and iPod after they were stolen from his locker one day at school. The teen’s family cell phone plan included the Sprint family locator, which easily led him to a house address. Jacob then called his mother and she confronted the thief, another teenager from the same high school.

Since Jacob was able to use GPS technology to locate his missing cell phone, the local law enforcement officials were able to locate various items that had been stolen from three other lockers that same day at school. Unfortunately, some of the stolen items had already been sold at a pawn shop, but many of the items were returned, and the students whose missing items were not returned were reimbursed for their value.

Some people might find cell phone GPS trackers to be very helpful in tracking their cell phones in case they are stolen, just like Rothenberg did. Teenagers love their cell phones so normally it is not out of their sight. The tracking in the cell phone will still work because very little time would pass before a student would wonder why his or her friends are not texting them back! Perhaps they can use the tracking device in the cell phone to find it in their room as well….have you seen some teenagers rooms?

Others might prefer to use the more reliable and more accurate traditional GPS tracking devices. Valuable electronics should be protected with GPS Tracking. The extended battery life gives you more time to locate and apprehend someone with “sticky fingers”!

(The picture above is a joyous group of students that received donated phones! If you would like to donate your old cellular phone(s) see some suggestions here.)