is there a gps device that fits in small devices?

Question

i was wondering if they have a small gps that fits on cameras, phones, laptops, portable game consoles, small devices etc. then it would be great. i could just track it down if anything is missing or lost...

Answer 1

The problem is that you want small, but want a lot more than just GPS. A GPS receiver can be made small enough to fit in a cell phone or other small package, but that only allows the device to know where IT is. In order to tell YOU where it is, it have to have communication ability - BlueTooth, Internet Access, Satellite - and enough battery power to transmit its location periodically or to listen constantly all the time, even when it is not lost or to turn on some hours after it was last used. And you have to either have internet access or have some other device that will communicate with it.
Phones, by the way, are easy - you just call them. Ah, you say, but the battery goes dead. Ah, I say, what is going to keep the GPS battery from going dead the same way?
You can buy highpower RFI chips that will return a signal from yards away, but then you have to have a device to track the signal - at about $200.

Answer 2

yes trackers but you buy a package that suits you
one type gives you say a 2mile radius of the location
another narrows it down to a area
another pinpoints the location exactly
it includes a entry code to the mapping website provided by the tracker company,and you buy a plot of usage say10 hits a week ~its not cheap

or you have standalone gps tracking systems that come equipped with a hitech briefcase and uplink/downlink to sattelites(police/customs excise) use these,you can purchase one for 15-20 thousand pounds,the tiny microchip fits wherever,only gov have all shapes and sizes to fit everything and go undetected,unless you are clever at making things it still has the same mchip you would get inside

Answer 3

my motorola razr v3m has GPS built in, just need software to use it, sprint charges $10 a month for the software. Works real good, used it to get around Kansas City earlier this year.

I think about 90% of all cell phones have gps capabilities now.

Now, as for using it to track the device, I don't think that's possible, but there is lo-jack for that. google lo-jack. you can put in in your car, and if stolen, locks the doors and disables the engine. They have similar for laptops, you report it stolen and when the thief hooks up to the net, it disables the laptop

Answer 4

The actual chip is tiny. The battery, antenna and cell phone modem needed to get a position and then send you the information is not.