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| Brand: Wherify
Category: CE
List Price: $99.99
Buy New: $79.99
You Save: $20.00 (20%)
New (2) from $79.99
Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 40155
Color: Silver
Media: Electronics
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: Yes
Includes MP3 Player: 0
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 3.5 x 1.5 x 0.6
MPN: 300-013SLS
Model: 300-013SLS
UPC: 832854003186
EAN: 0832854003186
ASIN: B000HJOU4G
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
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 Safety and a portable phone - provides some peace of mind for parents November 22, 2006
33 out of 36 found this review helpful
Although our older kids didn't get cell phones till much later, I gave in and got our younger one this phone for several reasons:
1. Stress reduction. I'm a sandwich generation person (I have kids, I have elderly parents) and so I need to know WHERE my kid is and how to reach him. Yes, we have rules and he follows them (call home, ALWAYS leave phone numbers where you'll be, etc) but this still leaves lots of room for error. What about when kids are playing outside or outside the range of a land line phone? With this phone, I can log online and know where he is quickly. It also works like a regular phone. The only risk is losing it.
2. Reasonable price. The Wherify Service will set you back about 20.00 a month but having a GPS phone is worth it for the peace of mind and time saved.
3. Too many hours driving around to track down my kid when he was outside, it was nearly dark, etc. It saves me time. If I DO need to reach him immediately, this device hones in on his location.
4. As noted above, I not only have elderly parents but I'm juggling responsibilities for two households (as so many Baby Boomers are). In short, I didn't get the phone so much because I thought HE needed one but because I really need to reach him when necessary - and quickly. It has paid off handsomely, both in time saved and less stress.
It is also sturdy, works well, no complaints. It doesn't look as "cool" as some state of the art phones but it does the job. You can stick it in your kid's backpack, put it in a teen's car, etc.
ONE CAUTION: If you are buying this to keep track of your employees or to snoop on your kids, think carefully about this. You might gain info at the cost of trust lost. I didn't buy this to snoop on my kid but to be able to reach him in an emergency.
Wherifone GPS locator for my daughter October 19, 2006
18 out of 19 found this review helpful
I recently purchased this phone for my 5 year old daughter, I have her take it with her to pre-school and it is a good feeling when I can be on my computer at work and track my daughter in her school, on the school bus and when she arrives at my home. It becomes very addicting because it is so easy to get her location. Thank you Wherify for relieving a little stress from my life when parting with my daughter who means everything to me. Keep up the good work, the feature to locate using my cell phone will be awesome. Please get it soon!
 Good idea, technology not ready yet! October 18, 2006
41 out of 42 found this review helpful
This is a great idea, especially for kids. However, the company is selling the product before the wrinkles are smoothed out. You are supposed to be able to do a "locate" in 3 ways: from the web site, from your cell phone, or by calling Wherify. It was not clear to me until I bought the phone that the "locate" by sending a text message from a cell isn't a functional feature yet... the company told me it will be at least 2 months.
Locating from the web site has worked very poorly today. (They told me they are working on their technology but even the company can't get signed in today.)
Further, they only have customer support from 9 am until 7 pm. So, since you can't locate from your cell phone yet, you better have a working internet connection when you want to find your kids... because they won't answer the phone outside of those hours.
We also found that a fully-charged phone battery only lasted 7 hours, with the majority of that time on standby (actual talk time was about 5 min).
Great idea, but I expect by the time they have a good product the regular cell phone companies will be offering the same technology.
I am returning both of ours and getting out of the contract.
This Product Works Great October 13, 2006
7 out of 10 found this review helpful
I bought the silver Wherifone three days ago and started messing with it. I was immediately amazed at how well it worked. The main feature is the GPS locator. You log on to the web site and put in a password to "locate" the unit. You can call a request in by telephone too, but I have not tried that yet, and probably won't. The first five or six times I sent a message out to "locate" the phone it came back dead-on. I mean it was within 20 feet each time. I did those hits from outside my office in Arizona as well as inside and around the building. The unit also has a cell phone feature. In my part of the country it uses Cingular and I must say the voice quality is much better than the quality on my regular cell phone.
On day two (yesterday) I continued to mess with it. I am considering getting these for my company to track my fleet of service vehicles but I thought I'd give it a good test first. On day two I let my teenage daughter use it when she went to college and drive around town. I used the "locate" feature about seven or eight more times and it worked fine. I knew where she was all day. (Unfortunately, she left it home when she went out last night!) I am very impressed with the wherifone.
I have continued to try it out today and I am very satisfied. In fairness, I have probably attempted 20 locates. Once (today) it told me that it was unable to locate and this was when the phone was outside. Then it worked fine again after that. There is no explanation for that, but overall, it worked about 95% of the time.
This is a very good product although it is probably better suited for use by kids than by my service fleet. The unit is pretty small and is designed for small hands. They need to some out with something larger for what I want to use it for.
This Works Great! October 13, 2006
18 out of 19 found this review helpful
I bought the Wherifone three days ago and started messing with it. I was immediately amazed at how well it worked. The main feature is the GPS locator. You log on to the web site and put in a password to "locate" the unit. You can call a request in by telephone too, but I have not tried that yet, and probably won't. The first five or six times I sent a message out to "locate" the phone it came back dead-on. I mean it was within 20 feet each time. I did those hits from outside my office in Arizona as well as inside and around the building. The unit also has a cell phone feature. In my part of the country it uses Cingular and I must say the voice quality is much better than the quality on my regular cell phone.
On day two (yesterday) I continued to mess with it. I am considering getting these for my company to track my fleet of service vehicles but I thought I'd give it a good test first. On day two I let my teenage daughter use it when she went to college and drive around town. I used the "locate" feature about seven or eight more times and it worked fine. I knew where she was all day. (Unfortunately, she left it home when she went out last night!) I am very impressed with the wherifone.
I have continued to try it out today and I am very satisfied. In fairness, I have probably attempted 20 locates. Once (today) it told me that it was unable to locate and this was when the phone was outside. Then it worked fine again after that. There is no explanation for that, but overall, it worked about 95% of the time.
This is a very good product although it is probably better suited for use by kids than by my service fleet. The unit is pretty small and is designed for small hands. They need to some out with something larger for what I want to use it for.
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