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Product News:
    07/08/08: Mexens Technology receives patent for wireless positioning system.

    07/01/08: Never lose your phone (or your kids) again: Navizon now includes MobiFindr, letting you locate a phone just by sending a text message to it.

    03/18/08: Watch our coverage spread across the world.

    02/08/08: Navizon 2.0 for the iPhone released.

    02/06/08: Create a Navizon Alert and have an email automatically sent to the address of your choice when you or one of your buddies enters a specific area.

    12/10/07: Mexens Technology launches Navizon Lite, a free version of Navizon working with cell positioning only.

    11/19/07: Refer new users to Navizon and earn 20% of their rewards.

    09/18/07: Navizon now available for the iPhone.

 

 

We've decided to put together a page dedicated to some cool ideas and ways to use Navizon, that people may not have thought of. Many of these ideas are taken straight from the Navizon forum, so to give credit where it is due, thank you to all the users who posted.

 

 

Navizon has several features that could be used to locate a mobile phone. All or any of these methods could be used to locate a mobile phone:

 

  1. Locate-by-sms/Mobifindr (Currently available for iPhone and Blackberry, others soon)
    Define a keyword on your device, and when you send a text message starting with that keyword to your mobile phone, Navizon will see the message and automatically find it's location, and respond with the nearest address. If an address is not available, (as is the case outside of the US) a link to the exact coordinates of the device will also be provided. This is probably the easiest way to locate a phone, and it will also give you the most up-to-date position, and best of all: It does not impact battery life, since Navizon only tries to locate the phone whenever an SMS with the correct keyword is received.

  2. Buddies/Map (all platforms, see note)
    You can see where your phone is by:

     

    1. Logging on to www.navizon.com.

    2. Click the "Buddies/Groups" tab and then click "Map". If you want a public URL that always shows the position of your phone, click "Publish location to public url". You will then be able to locate your phone by browsing to the URL given in the "Hyperlink" box.

  3. My trail (premium feature, see note)
    "My Trail" makes it possible to see where the phone has been over a period of time.

You must first enable My Trail by logging in to www.navizon.com. Then, click "My trail" and make sure the trail feature is on.

 

Note: For the "Buddies/map" and "My Trail" features to work your device must have a working internet connection. You also need to configure Navizon to send your location back to the server, so that your position can be updated at regular intervals. (See Changing your Visibility)

 

In order to get the most accurate position available, it is recommended that you upgrade your account to the Premium version The premium account uses both Wi-Fi positioning and cell tower triangulation which are more accurate than the Cell ID positioning used in the Lite/free version.

 

Also, remember that you must enable the feature(s) you want before you loose your phone. Navizon staff can not provide any more details than these tools can give you, or change any settings on your device remotely.

 

We hope you never lose your phone, but if you do, hopefully Navizon can help you recover it.

 

 

 

There seems to be a bit of a dilemma when it comes to techniques for mapping the wireless landscape.

 

The two school of thought are as follows:

 

  1. Drive around, and cover as much ground as possible.

The problem here, is that you may "miss" some points, because you are going too quickly

  1. Walk around, and don't miss many data points.

While you won't miss as many points as if you were driving, it would take a lot longer to cover the same amount of space

So, here's the deal. There is NO wrong answer. Either way you approach mapping the wireless landscape with Navizon you will earn points, and points equal rewards!

 

Some people have suggested combining the best of both worlds, by biking around town with Navizon running. This way you can cover more ground, and hopefully map more points than if you had been zooming by at 40 miles an hour.

 

Just do us one small favor. If you choose to drive or bike with Navizon, wait until you are at a complete stop to check how many points you've earned. We promise, they won't disappear while you keep your eyes on the road.

 

 

Here's another thing to try:

  • If your phone has a SIM card, odds are you only map the cell towers from your current service provider. But if you are interested in using your phone solely to map the wireless landscape, you can try removing the SIM card.

Note: Removing the card will temporarily stop you from using any of Navizon's other features, and from making/receiving calls etc, but on some phones removing the SIM card allows you to map Cell Towers from every carrier your phone can "See". (It is also possible, that it won't map any towers. It depends on the device, so the only way to know for sure is to try it once.)

  • If this trick works for you, it is a great way to continue to earn more points in an area you have already covered. Or it will allow you to earn even more points when you map the wireless landscape with Navizon.

 Good Luck, and continue to enjoy Navizon!

 

 

There a few different ways you can Map the wireless landscape with Navizon while limiting the amount of data it uses, or while making sure it doesn't use any data at all:

  1. If your phone has a SIM card, removing it will obviously prevent Navizon from connecting to the internet via the cellular network, but it still may allow you to map towers. If it does, then this is a great way to map the wireless landscape wherever you go, while not having to worry about lots of Data charges. (Either at home, roaming, or internationally)

But how will I sync my points?


You have a couple of options.

 

You can sync over Wi-Fi, or you can wait until you get home and connect to your computer and sync via Activesync, or whatever method your phone can connect to your computer.

  1. Go into the options and change the "Locator" mode to "Local Database" (Note: this is a Premium feature) Then check the "Work Offline" box. This will prevent Navizon from accessing the internet, to locate you, or download the information neccesary for many of it's features, but it will also limit the amount of data that Navizon uses on your device.

Again, to send your mapped points to the Navizon Server, you can sync your device via Wi-Fi, or while connected to your computer. 

 
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