New here and I wish to relate my experience with this service since it is free. First off, thank-you to the folks who host this site and provide this soft-ware. I am sure you have plans to make this commercially viable and I hope and believe that you will be fifthly rich. You are providing a wonderful service.
Enough brown nosing. I was in a quandary. We live in city of 250k people and my daughters were at odds with my wife over a few issues. First, they wanted cell phones; she did not want them to. Her concern was that they would not continue with the old system of checking in at home and writing on the dry erase board, where they were going, when they would be back and who they would be with. This system was slowly crumbling as their boundaries were expanding since they did not want to walk these expanded distances to ?check-in?. This problem was going to be compounded as the oldest is due to start driving next year.
Did a search and found that Nextel had the GPS tracking for $15.00 but stumbled on this site and figured if this works, the history function etc would be much much better. Put together a proposal between the ?warring? parties. Since my contract with Sprint was ending, I get a i870 and 2 i275?s for the girls. They split the minutes on a share plan. My wife is the admin of the account so she can shut their phone off if they get close to going over in minutes. We can always use the walkie talkie function if their service is suspended to the end of the billing cycle. I set the Accutracking so that it starts up when the phones are turned on. If the girls disable it, the phones are made into walkie-talkie and we will assume they are ?hiding? and up to no-good. The phones are their X-mas presents and we will pay ? of their monthly bill, they will pay the other half. They will pay their half no matter what. It will be a glorified walkie-talkie/cowbell if their grades are not up to par, the GPS is messed with, their chores are not done or generally if they p.o. my wife off in any way, shape or form.
Wife is happy. She is cell-phone God of the family.
Kids are hesitant, but that ?parents pay half the bill? is an attractive clause. They tried to maneuver on the GPS issue.
Q: ?Don?t you trust us??
A: ? You are teenagers. To quote Ronald Reagan ?Trust, but verified?.
Q2: ?Does it have a camera (i275) ??
A: ?Yes?.
That sealed the deal as I figured it would.
An interesting side note. As I was loading the software, I was checking out the mapping options. My wife was on the couch next to me and my youngest was doing homework with-in earshot. My oldest daughter walked by as I switched to the satellite map. She asked what that was. I said that it was a satellite image. ?You can take satellite pictures of us?!?!? Me; ?Did I forget to mention that? I read on the forum boards that using the ahhh, ahhh?.?satellite picture function?, I can take pictures that zoom in close enough to read the letters on street signs?. Dead silence in the room as startled glances dart between the loves of my life. My wife chimes in with without even looking up from the book she is reading, ?Trust, but verified?. It has got to be the hardest thing I have done with a straight face. I will confess the truth??? someday.
Thank-you again for this wonderful service (especially the SPF satellite picture function). Domestic d?tente may not have been possible without it.
New here and I wish to relate my experience with this service since it is free. First off, thank-you to the folks who host this site and provide this soft-ware. I am sure you have plans to make this commercially viable and I hope and believe that you will be fifthly rich. You are providing a wonderful service.
Enough brown nosing. I was in a quandary. We live in city of 250k people and my daughters were at odds with my wife over a few issues. First, they wanted cell phones; she did not want them to. Her concern was that they would not continue with the old system of checking in at home and writing on the dry erase board, where they were going, when they would be back and who they would be with. This system was slowly crumbling as their boundaries were expanding since they did not want to walk these expanded distances to ?check-in?. This problem was going to be compounded as the oldest is due to start driving next year.
Did a search and found that Nextel had the GPS tracking for $15.00 but stumbled on this site and figured if this works, the history function etc would be much much better. Put together a proposal between the ?warring? parties. Since my contract with Sprint was ending, I get a i870 and 2 i275?s for the girls. They split the minutes on a share plan. My wife is the admin of the account so she can shut their phone off if they get close to going over in minutes. We can always use the walkie talkie function if their service is suspended to the end of the billing cycle. I set the Accutracking so that it starts up when the phones are turned on. If the girls disable it, the phones are made into walkie-talkie and we will assume they are ?hiding? and up to no-good. The phones are their X-mas presents and we will pay ? of their monthly bill, they will pay the other half. They will pay their half no matter what. It will be a glorified walkie-talkie/cowbell if their grades are not up to par, the GPS is messed with, their chores are not done or generally if they p.o. my wife off in any way, shape or form.
Wife is happy. She is cell-phone God of the family.
Kids are hesitant, but that ?parents pay half the bill? is an attractive clause. They tried to maneuver on the GPS issue.
Q: ?Don?t you trust us??
A: ? You are teenagers. To quote Ronald Reagan ?Trust, but verified?.
Q2: ?Does it have a camera (i275) ??
A: ?Yes?.
That sealed the deal as I figured it would.
An interesting side note. As I was loading the software, I was checking out the mapping options. My wife was on the couch next to me and my youngest was doing homework with-in earshot. My oldest daughter walked by as I switched to the satellite map. She asked what that was. I said that it was a satellite image. ?You can take satellite pictures of us?!?!? Me; ?Did I forget to mention that? I read on the forum boards that using the ahhh, ahhh?.?satellite picture function?, I can take pictures that zoom in close enough to read the letters on street signs?. Dead silence in the room as startled glances dart between the loves of my life. My wife chimes in with without even looking up from the book she is reading, ?Trust, but verified?. It has got to be the hardest thing I have done with a straight face. I will confess the truth??? someday. :lol:
Thank-you again for this wonderful service (especially the SPF satellite picture function). Domestic d?tente may not have been possible without it.