SleuthGear iTrail GPS Logger Passive Tracking Device Review

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(More customer reviews)I had the GPS tracking key by Land-Air-Sea before this. I bought it from an on-line "spy gear" shop. For whatever reason, I never thought to check amazon for another one. Instead I went to the LAS site, and looked for a local retailer. I wanted to get it that day. So I went to a shop on the LAS site, and the guys there told me they quit making the GPS tracking key, and that this iTrail was the replacement. So I got it. Don't buy it, for many reasons:
1st- it's a non-replaceable built in rechargeable battery. For what a tracking device is used for, you need to be able to swap the batteries with fresh ones every week or so sometimes...not hook it up to your computer and let it charge for four hours like this iTrail.
2nd- proprietary cable. You have to have the cable that comes with it to plug it in. The GPS tracking key from LAS plugs into any USB port without additional cables.
3rd- discretion. If anyone finds the device, they will know exactly what it is. It says iTrail all over it and you can google it on the internet. The GPS tracking key has no markings. I scratched all the markings off and removed the stickers. Now of course I can't return it.
4th- it doesn't work very well. you can't tell if it's on or off half the time. i had it on a vehicle for 4 days, and it missed a ton of the important information i was trying to get. i don't know if the motion sensor is weak, or if it has a hard time locking on to GPS satellites or what, but it totally missed what I needed. The LAS GPS tracking key misses things once in a while, too, but not this bad.
5th- even when it does record data, the output to Google earth isn't very good. you do a lot of your own calculating. It tells what time a stop occurs, but doesn't say for how long. The next piece of information you have is how long the next route was, then the next stop time. you have to subtract the route length from the next stop time then subtract that from the last stop time to figure out how long the last stop time was. The GPS tracking key provides all that without additional calculations by you.
Not happy. I'm throwing it in the garbage after I write this review. Lesson learned. Get the GPS tracking key. The guy at the local shop lied. You can still get it right here on amazon.com. And it's cheaper than I paid for my original one (I paid $200, amazon's is $131):
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_6_16?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=gps+tracking+key&x=0&y=0&sprefix=gps+tracking+key

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