Traded In Two, Bought One New

[Easy Rider]

Originally Posted by dhgeyer

As an aside, I also learned that any cell phone can be tracked by "The authorities" in an emergency. This is true whether or not the phone is old or new, or whether or not is has any GPS capabilities.

OK, we are getting closer.

"Tracking" the older phones depends on cell tower tiangulation. When this works, it is not very accurate.....maybe to withing a quarter mile. If you think about that for just a second, for it to achieve even that accuracy, you need to be "in range" of 3 towers. With only two, the accuracy goes WAY down; with only one, you get maybe a 5 to 10 mile radius.

For the GPS function of your Blackberry to be useful for more accurate tracking of YOU, it must be arranged internally to pass the coordinates to the "phone" part so it can be transmitted out.
I suspect that it will do that but it wouldn't HAVE to......up until the last year or so.