If I understand your question, you mean locating a specific cell phone using GPS. If that's right, then no. The GPS chips in cell phones are only used for emergency location or when the police get a warrant for the phone's location.
Yes, there are several phone tracking services available for cell phones.
Most smartphones offer gps cell phone trackers in their programs from cell phone companies. These smartphone include blackberry, android phones and iphones.
There are services like http://www.buddyway.com/ that track any phone. Be aware this uses a seperate system and not the GPS chip in your phone.
The most common use for cell phone GPS for finding directions. GPS allows a person to find search their own destination or another destination, i.e. a place that they would like to find.
The only way to turn off GPS cell phone tracking is by turning off your cell phone. or remove the GPS receiving antenna
An app that you can download for cell phone gps tracking, if you have an android phone, is family GPS tracker by Life 360. It won best cell phone tracker in 2010.
You can read reviews for cell phone gps locators on retrevo.com.
Most cell phone carriers now have GPS tracking. One of the leading phone companies to advertise GPS tracting was Boost mobile.
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You can download software directly to your cell phone without having a GPS cell phone specifically. Some software names are VZ Navigator for Verizon Wireless and TeleNav GPS.
Cell phone GPS locators are fairly accurate. If you are looking for pinpoint accuracy, I would recommend a GPS console unit like a Garmin or a Magellan rather than a cell phone.
A GPS tracking device in your cell phone can be useful for locating someone who has their cell phone on but is not answering it. This would be an emergency situation.