How can I track a cell phone? It is a question often asked these days and for many good reasons. Some people want to share their location with friends and vice verse, some want to keep track of kids, and still others want to check up on cheating spouses. What ever your reason, their are a lot of different services that will help you track a cell phone.

Keep in mind that these services are aimed at helping you track a cell phone that you own or a friends phone that has given consent. If you want to track a cell phone without the knowledge or consent of the owner you run into some very serious legal and privacy concerns. That being said lets look at some ways to track a cell phone that you own.

Free is better and that's a fact. A really good free service to track your cell phone in real time is buddyway.com. Buddyway is a service that uses the gps feature of your cell phone to track and save your trips, share them with friends, view you trips in 3D with google earth, and show friends your location. You must have an unlocked cell phone to use it.

Their are many fun ways to use this such as monitoring teams in Indias's "Rickshaw Run" for instance. But a more useful way is to track your kids or spouse. The buddyway app tracks the phone and sends its coordinates periodically via internet, so you need to realize that you can run up a big bill if you are not careful.

If you want to use buddyway.com to track a phone, just register and then go to the forum and look under FAQ to find the thread "Can I use Buddyway to track my children/wife/husband/employee/... ?" you can get all the instructions from there.

We've all received calls from numbers we don't recognize and people were not familiar with. How do you know if they are legit? And what about that number that shows up on the phone bill, maybe numerous times, that has no information listed? How do you find out who this obviously blocked or private number belongs to?

Looking on a free database is usually a waste of time. Anyone who does not want people to know who they are Will have an unlisted number and cell phone numbers are not freely available to the public. You'll need to talk to a private investigator (expensive) or go to a pay reverse phone lookup service. Not all of these services are created equal. Some will give you only name and address while others will have out of date information. One of the premier services in this area is Reverse Phone Detective. For a nominal membership fee you will be able to perform unlimited searches, get full phone search detail reports, access to enhanced people search databases, and background information about the phone owner. This is one service that can do a lot for your peace of mind.