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Story: Why you should care about GPS in mobiles

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Posted by: Mahame (Monday 19 February 2007, 11:49 AM)

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GPS on mobile phones ? = not new

I've been using a Motorola A1000 for over 2 years with built in GPS. This device has access on online maps, I have loaded lots of details maps for hill walkiing and have Tom-Tom navigation software running to provide road directions.

Prior to the A100 the A910 /A920 also has built in GPS receiver.

As for using it it locate/track the device (only bad when misused) - the phone companies can do this pretty accurately using triangulation from multiple base stations (cells) without using any GPS.

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