Fanatic Digital Real Time Gsm/gprs/sms/online GPS Personal/car Tracker Logger for Cars, Persons, Pets on google map, internet, laptop, desktop

by Fanatic Digital

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 4 x 2 x 1 inches ; 10.1 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B002ODQ3W0
• Item model number: G201
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #41,694 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)

Product Description

Fanatic Digital G201 is a compact-sized multi-pursers REAL TIME GPS tracker for in-car and personal monitoring and protection. Armed with high-sensitivity and low power GPS/GPRS device, G201 provides reliable real-time positioning and 24-hour trace log upon owner's request. This is absolute must-to-have to protect your vehicles, children or anyone you care about. You can know their positions in just a few clicks or by your cell phone. You can even eavesdrop through this device without holder's knowledge. You can get ATandT sim card from our Amazon store for this tracker (ATandT, T-mobile SIM card required for this tracker to function).

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Product, April 7, 2010

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L. Soares (Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fanatic Digital Real Time Gsm/gprs/sms/online GPS Personal/car Tracker Logger for Cars, Persons, Pets on google map, internet, laptop, desktop (Electronics)

I have purchased this GPS tracker couple months back, found its over all operation and functionalities very good.

Had a few initial problems exchanging emails with their support, but in the end I can say I'm a happy and finally a satisfied customer.

had to purchase a separate cable to change APN info, SMSC and SOS numbers as I'm in Canada and we don't have AT&T here.

I hope this helps those who have also purchased this unit and are having abit of a hard time getting it going.

if you have no luck with support drop your comments and I will try to help you with issues I had with my device at first.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Expensive paper weight, January 17, 2011

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Tony Gbenga - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fanatic Digital Real Time Gsm/gprs/sms/online GPS Personal/car Tracker Logger for Cars, Persons, Pets on google map, internet, laptop, desktop (Electronics)

I found this device on Amazon and following some positive reviews on it, I decided to buy.
My disappointment:
I tried three different SIM cards on it (glo, Airtel, mtn - Nigerian GSM networks) but none of them worked.
I bought the device through an agent as Amazon will not ship to my Nigerian address. I can not even contemplate returning it as it would cost me much more than the device itself.
I have sent an email to [e-mail] (found on their mediocre website) and I'm yet to get a response. If I eventually do, I'll update this post to let you know.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very Good But Not Perfect, March 4, 2011

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Sunglass Evaluator - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Fanatic Digital Real Time Gsm/gprs/sms/online GPS Personal/car Tracker Logger for Cars, Persons, Pets on google map, internet, laptop, desktop (Electronics)

This GPS tracker has a couple of great features I didn't find on others. The call it and listen to audio is key to me, because it's how I can know for sure that my teenage daughter is driving with a friend in the car or not. Also, she can use the SOS button to initiate a call and location text message in an emergency. Unlike some units that must be hardwired to the car, this one can be carried with her. The SOS button can be used for me to verify that she really has the unit with her, and didn't leave it somewhere (I call her on her cell phone and tell her to push the button). The real time tracking online is very good and worked immeadiately, although the documantation forces you to figure out how to do some of the things for yourself. For around town (city) driving or walking, I found it's necessary to set the sampling rate for 30 sec (the fastest), because if you don't, then you don't get enough data points to really see where it is everywhere. I'm not totally sure, but I think as long as you have the "Real Time Tracking" set to "STOP", then it won't cost you anything unless you START it, then you can STOP any time. At first the HISTORY "QUERY" did not work the first day, but the second day it started working. It's great! It not only shows you all the locations on the map, which you can mouse-over for more information, but you can also PLAY a sequence of locations appearing at various selectable speeds, so you can watch the sequence of the locations like going on the trip again. I'm not sure how many chargable minutes or text messages it takes to query the history, so hopefully it's not going to turn out to cost too much. I'm assuming if I leave the Real Time Tracking STOPPED, and only look at the History, then it won't cost as much in terms of text messages the unit uses to send the data to the web site. I bought some of the pre-paid $25 SIM cards from Fanatic, because they come already configured, and when one runs out, I'll just pop in another one. I'd like to know how to check how much balance I have on the SIM cards, because when I went to the AT&T site about it, it requires a PIN, but Fanatic didn't send me the PIN numbers with the SIM cards. The Geo Fencing hasn't worked every time, in fact only about 25% of the time. It helps if the tracker is in the fenced location for more than a few minutes, but it almost never catches it there if just driving through the fenced area. I like that I can call it and hang up to have it text me the current location, because I can do it hands-free while driving. It's way easier than another unit I've tried. The other brand makes you first text "find" to the unit, then after it replies back you have to text again with a pin and the name of the unit, then it will send you another text with the location; that other brand also doesn't have good real-time tracking and good history information, because it will only sample locations every 5 minutes, and only then if you have already logged onto there web site within the last hour and told it to. The Fanatic unit is way better. Again, the only concern I have is how much the AT&T charges will be. I think it will be OK, because I think if I only use it as needed, and use the history query when I don't need immediate location, then I think the texting charges won't be too much. I'll find out.