CellFinder Android App review
Price : Free
Version 1.3
Update : This app is no longer available in the market. If you are looking for a way to find out how you can protect your phone and recover it if it ever gets lost, check out our WaveSecure review.
Have you ever wondered how many cell towers are in your vicinity? Have you thought about how you never know when your call is transferred from one tower to another and there are no packets dropped. Well, now you can know.
What
CellFinder is an app to locate the cell tower that you phone is currently connected to. It requires accesss to the Network location services and works best with GPS access as well. These settings are found in the Security and location section of the settings menu. Use Wireless networks must be enabled. Enable GPS Satellites should be enabled for best results.
How
The CellFiner app comes with a nice little interface. It has a Map view and shows your current location and the tower that you are connected to and a line is drawn between these two.
We enabled this app and took a drive around the neighborhood. It was news to us that in the 2 mile drive that we took there were at least 6 to 8 towers and our call kept getting transferred between these towers and we did not know a thing.
Here is the Settings screen for this app. After you are done playing with it, remember to close this application using the Advanced Task Killer .
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The URL doesn’t seem to work,
/David
David,
Thanks for the feedback. It looks like this app is not available in the Market for download anymore. Will try to see if the Developer has any information.
I would love to have this app. Why did they take it off? Is there a way to get it somehow?