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ksimp88

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OK, let's say my woman gets lost in the store. AGAIN. I need to find her. So, I load up FMW, otherwise known as, Find My Wife. This app using a navigation system to locate your old lady using her GPS signal. Basically, an arrow pointing directly at her at all times. If she is far away, zoom out on the Map, and it will show her on Google maps.


OK, where can I find an app like that?
 
lunameow said:
If my husband and I get separated in a huge store, I use the app called "contacts" and either call him or text him. :P
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Ha easy for you to say because your husband probably actually keeps his phone where he can hear it. Chances of my wife hearing her phone in her handbag in a noisey store: slim to none
 
I put FetchIt on both of our phones. If we got separated in a noisy environment (like the mall surrounded by a bunch of screaming kids) I could just SMS her keyword and the phone will go crazy at top volume. If I'm close enough, I may even hear where it's coming from.
 
Strings said:
And then get checked into a psych ward for misogynistic paranoia.

And folks thought having an app to track your kids was bad?
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Possibly, but could be jumping to conclusions as if both parties decide to say use latitude for a purpose like this mutually, nothing wrong with that.
 
Jason71 said:
Ha easy for you to say because your husband probably actually keeps his phone where he can hear it. Chances of my wife hearing her phone in her handbag in a noisey store: slim to none
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Not to mention, getting a GPS signal in a box building is iffy.
 
My wife and I tried latitude briefly, it was a huge battery drain - and damn near impossible to turn it off and make it stay off.
Also when we tried it we were RIGHT next to each other, but latitude showed her as being over at the neighbor's house - so not exactly pinpoint reliability. If one was inclined to think that the spouse and the neighbor were having a fling, this would certainly (wrongly) reinforce that suspicion.
 
lunameow said:
If my husband and I get separated in a huge store, I use the app called "contacts" and either call him or text him. :P
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This is what my wife does when I am lost. I guess she needs a Find My Husband app? Of course, she knows when I get lost I just head toward the lingerie section. ;-)
 
HoochieCoo said:
This is what my wife does when I am lost. I guess she needs a Find My Husband app? Of course, she knows when I get lost I just head toward the lingerie section. ;-)
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We're actually kinda lucky if we're in a store with low racks, since he's tall enough that I can see him over them. Or, during allergy or cold season, he just listens for me to cough.

Mostly, we rely on the almost-certainty that he'll be in electronics, and I'll either be in jewelry or stationary (I have an office supply thing). Calling each other happens when he comes looking for me at the same time I go looking for him.
 
mhotovec said:
Also when we tried it we were RIGHT next to each other, but latitude showed her as being over at the neighbor's house - so not exactly pinpoint reliability.
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Read the post just above yours. Without GPS it has to fall back on a less accurate method of determining location. Again, determining location indoors with GPS will always be iffy if it's even possible in a given situation.

mhotovec said:
My wife and I tried latitude briefly, it was a huge battery drain - and damn near impossible to turn it off and make it stay off.
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...and frequently polling the GPS receiver will quickly kill your battery.
 
takeshi said:
...and frequently polling the GPS receiver will quickly kill your battery.
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...as will frequently polling for WiFi.

Install some toggle widgets for them on your homescreen. I find they are quite convenient. Switch WiFi on when you're downtown, on foot, or in office buildings. Everywhere you may expect a high density of WiFi hotspots. Switch GPS on only when you really need navigating. They'll give you high resolution services, and drain your battery fast.
That's not a problem at home, in your car, or in your office, because a charger is usually near.
But if you have no live charger available energy consumption becomes an issue, like it or not. Meaning you can't afford to waste it. You need to conserve it for when you really need it. Depending on the circumstances, of course.

Besides switching GPS locating and WiFi polling off (with widgets) when they are not necessary or useless (like GPS in buildings, or WiFi out of town) I now also kill all apps about twice a day with 'Advanced Task Killer' (in the market). I know many of them come back on automatically within minutes, but I also find empirically that this 'energy husbandry' effectively at least doubles my battery life!
 
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Am I the only one that, if Hubby and i get separated in a large store, I just go about my business and head out to the car to wait? Lol, I guess that is what happens after 13 years of misplacing each other. :)

We lost each other on a cruise ship once for two hours. Gave us fun stories to tell each other when we finally found the other!
 
I usually just stand there in the middle of the lingerie department and cry (for multiple reasons, but that's between me and my psychiatrist). The nice security guards will bring my wife to me and I get a lollipop out the deal.
 
The OP was asking if there was an app like that.

I can assure you there is no app like that on the market. The privacy issues with that would be huge. 99.9% of the people interested in an app like that would be controlling ex (or soon to be ex) spouses/significant others who are trying to stalk (oops I meant "keep track of") their partners. It wouldn't take long before some SOB killed their estranged spouse after locating them on their app.

(And yes, I think the OP probably fell into that group too unfortunately). :eek:
 
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