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Re: OT - Non LSR

To: LandSpeed <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: OT - Non LSR
From: "Jon.the.Wise" <jon.the.wise@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 08:01:28 -0800
> As for cellphones -- do they really have GPS stuff imbedded?  I know
> that the very nature of cellphone systems allows location of the 'phone
> by triangulating from the multiple towers that can hear any particular
> cellphone at any one time, and that location can be pretty accurate.
> That being the case, why bother putting GPS parts inside?
>
> Inquiring mind (not wearing a foil helmet just now) wants to know!

Some do. My samsung had gps, you could turn it off to save battery
power though, and that's how it always is. My current nokia doesn't
though. Eventually they're all supposed to, because the triangulation
is fairly accurate, but not perfect, and gps is within a few feet
usually...


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~Jon




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