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[Vishal Iyer]

On a different note...how do GPS devices have no monthly fees to support the
bandwidth required to transmit & receive positional data at very short
intrevals (one second or less, I'm pretty sure) for long periods of time? It
does add up, doesn't it?

On 6/4/07, Vishal Iyer <vishaliyer1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  If I'm not mistaken, the GPS is not turned on (yet). It simply provide
> maps and directions...much like accessing Google Maps on the web.
> What existing phones (in the US) have the GPS turned on? I'd love to
> buy Garmin Nuvi, but would rather have something intergrated with my cell
> phone. What about peeps outside the US? Better luck there?
>
>
> Somehow, Real Life tends to interfere. How does the phone know where it
> > is?
> > It has no GPS and Cingular has blocked access to Location Based Services
> >
> > (JRS 172). I guess its open for the iPhone, but my experience is that
> > without 3G, the precision of non-GPS locating is about +/-1,8 km.
> > (outside
> > the occasional sweet spots).
> >
>
> --
> -Vishal
> http://www.vishaliyer.com




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