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Old 21-04-2016, 03:36 PM
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Default Cheap & Small Tracker anyone - have a look at this

https://buy.thetrackr.co/

Ive ordered a few

Pretty good value and great concept
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I bought a similar device from a company called 4sevens, not only does it do the above but it's also a fully programmable flashlight (similar size to the above) and you can view the battery life, play around with settings etc.

The reality is not quite as polished as you'd like!

It connects to your phone via Bluetooth (like the above) but it lasted a day for me. Initial novelty was cool, then the bugs appeared and it turned to crap. Going out of Bluetooth range in the house, alarm going off when it wanted etc.

Hope you have better luck with those.
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Lets see when it arrives - i will do a review
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You really need one with geo fencing that way you can set it up if the car leaves a pre set area it notifies you.
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Novel...but if there is nobody anywhere near running their app...sounds like it wont track much ?
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Originally Posted by stevieturbo
Novel...but if there is nobody anywhere near running their app...sounds like it wont track much ?
yes that is true - but the technology is growing all the time and for the sake of £20 its a minor risk to take - obviously you dont want to solely rely on this as your only source of gps tracking
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It's not bad, tracker only detects when a police car is within a certain distance too. Need one like this that sends a ping covering anywhere.

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This is the one i was looking at
http://www.loc8tor.com/uk/everyday/l...paign=vehicles
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Originally Posted by jamie956
That looks good too.

I have ordered the other ones for way less so lets see how they work out
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My TrackR's arrived today - very small and well built.

The only problem i have is my phone is shit and half the functions on it dont work anymore so this is not pairing up to my phone but it has paired fine on a work colleagues phone and the tracking is spot on

Gonna look at other gps solutions now
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