JTrek Smartphone Personal Security App Downloaded More Than 5000 Times During Consumer Electronics Show 'CES 2010' Week

ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill., Jan. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Rolling Meadows, Ill.-based company, JTrek, LLC developed this new patent-pending personal security and safety application for Smartphones. It's the world's first fully functional mobile wireless surveillance system built into cell phones, using video, photos, audio, and GPS information to report crime as it occurs. Prior to exhibiting at CES 2010, the company released Version 2.0, offering updated support for Nokia Smartphones, additional security features, and an improved user interface.

How does JTrek® work? It incorporates the same video/photo surveillance techniques used in automatic teller machines, convenience stores, and department stores, but is self-contained in a user's Smartphone. If someone is walking on a college campus or leaving a restaurant or bar at night and senses danger, they simply start the app, hold their phones up (to gather evidence) and press a PANIC button. Within seconds, email and SMS text messages go out, alerting friends, family, and security personnel of an emergency or crime in progress.

JTrek® is perfect for college students, family members, night-shift workers, or anyone traveling alone. Just activate it with a simple key-press and walk safely.

"Yesterday I read a letter from ADT Security Services stating that burglar alarms make your home three times less likely to be burglarized. What they don't tell you is that according to FBI reports, most crimes occur outside the home, in the street," says James D. Richie, CEO of JTrek. "The word needs to get out on how new technology, like Smartphones, can cast a much broader safety net, not just locally but globally, where crimes are most likely encountered," adds Richie.

Different from most mobile apps, JTrek® was developed internally by a 15-year-old wireless test and measurement design company with products used world-wide by AT&T, Entel Chile, Telecom Italia, T-Mobile and several other telecom firms around the world. JTrek LLC, a subsidiary of X-TEL Communications, Inc., knows the ins and outs of wireless cellular networks, and that sets it apart from smaller Smartphone App developers. The JTrek® App is based on a deep understanding on how modern wireless digital networks operate from end to end.

JTrek® security comes standard with a secure Web account (www.jtrek.com) to store videos, photos, and a large list of emergency contacts. The account includes a diary feature for people being stalked or harassed, but who may not have sufficient evidence to take legal action.

For more information on JTrek® please visit www.jtrek.com. JTrek® encourages concerned citizens around the globe to join it in protecting communities with surveillance technology anyone can carry in their pockets.

About JTrek, LLC

JTrek, LLC is a subsidiary of X-TEL Communications, Inc. X-TEL is a global provider of engineering test systems and services for the wireless industry. X-TEL's products and services are used by some of the largest wireless companies globally to test and optimize their cellular networks.

SOURCE JTrek, LLC