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| swingman 2005-12-14, 5:48 pm |
| I just read an article about Verizon offering GPS service on cell phones for
$10 a month. I wonder if any of the currently available phones, such as the
e815 would be capable of acting as GPS receivers? Has anyone heard much
about this?
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| Pegleg 2005-12-14, 5:48 pm |
| On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 16:13:28 GMT, "swingman" <visacco@yahoo.com> wrote:
>I just read an article about Verizon offering GPS service on cell phones for
>$10 a month. I wonder if any of the currently available phones, such as the
>e815 would be capable of acting as GPS receivers? Has anyone heard much
>about this?
It would be quite helpful if you would post the source you are referring
to!
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| He's probably referring to this article.
http://mobilemag.com/content/100/340/C5534/
If you don't have the Motorola V325, you can't get it right now. You'll
have to wait until Verizon launches new phones that will support this
service.
"Pegleg" <brian-s-jones@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 16:13:28 GMT, "swingman" <visacco@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> It would be quite helpful if you would post the source you are referring
> to!
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> Pegleg
> U.S. Navy Retired
> Support Our Troops
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> All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words:
> freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
> Sir Winston Churchill
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| Sandy A. Nicolaysen 2005-12-14, 11:48 pm |
| On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 16:13:28 GMT, "swingman" <visacco@yahoo.com>
wrote:
>I just read an article about Verizon offering GPS service on cell phones for
>$10 a month. I wonder if any of the currently available phones, such as the
>e815 would be capable of acting as GPS receivers? Has anyone heard much
>about this?
>
Pay $10/mo for it? The function is built into the phone!
- Sandy
"Failure is not an option. It comes bundled with your Microsoft product."
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| kevin weaver 2005-12-14, 11:48 pm |
| The phone has the GPS Already. But were talking about the VZ Navigator
service. That service will cost 10.00 a month.
"Sandy A. Nicolaysen" <sandynic@verizon.net> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 16:13:28 GMT, "swingman" <visacco@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
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> Pay $10/mo for it? The function is built into the phone!
>
> - Sandy
> "Failure is not an option. It comes bundled with your Microsoft product."
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| Swingman 2005-12-15, 2:48 am |
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"Pegleg" <brian-s-jones@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 16:13:28 GMT, "swingman" <visacco@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> It would be quite helpful if you would post the source you are referring
> to!
I was referring to an article I read at pcmag.com - link below.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1897253,00.asp
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| "swingman" <visacco@yahoo.com> wrote in
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> I just read an article about Verizon offering GPS service on cell
> phones for $10 a month. I wonder if any of the currently available
> phones, such as the e815 would be capable of acting as GPS receivers?
> Has anyone heard much about this?
>
>
As soon as teenage girls become interested in GPS, all the phones will have
GPS displays and mapping software in them. Until then, the girls want the
cameras...(c;
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| That's the same exact story of the link I provided. The same info still
applies. If you don't have the V325, you'll have to wait for Verizon to
come out with new phones that support this new services.
"Swingman" < visaccoNoSpamPlease@
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> "Pegleg" <brian-s-jones@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> I was referring to an article I read at pcmag.com - link below.
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> http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1897253,00.asp
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| clifto 2005-12-15, 11:48 pm |
| J wrote:
> That's the same exact story of the link I provided. The same info still
> applies. If you don't have the V325, you'll have to wait for Verizon to
> come out with new phones that support this new services.
I'd sure love to know how the GPS in the V325 is different from the GPS
in a gaggle of other Verizon phones.
--
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my vote for President will be a write-in for Jiang Zemin.
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| IMHO IIRC 2005-12-16, 2:48 am |
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In news:n67973-ut1.ln1@remote.clifto.com,
clifto <clifto@clifto.com> typed:
> J wrote:
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> I'd sure love to know how the GPS in the V325 is different from the GPS
> in a gaggle of other Verizon phones.
Not sure if it is something peculiar to that phone OR if it is just that
they have not written a GIN application for other phones.
My LG VX4400 by changing some settings in the phone and dialing 922 in most
native VZW areas will display the Longitude & Latitude on the screen. Not
too useful unless you also have some way to find the location of those
coordinates.
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| CharlesH 2005-12-16, 2:48 am |
| Sandy A. Nicolaysen wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 16:13:28 GMT, "swingman" <visacco@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
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> Pay $10/mo for it? The function is built into the phone!
Actually, it's only partly on the phone. The phones use assisted-GPS
(aGPS), where the cell site does most of the GPS protocol and the actual
coordinate computation. The phone just listens for the GPS satellites it
is told to and reports timing info back to the cell site. This setup
lets the phone be located in situations where standalone GPS units don't
have enough signal from the satellites, like indoors or between tall
buildings. The original intent for aGPS was for locating 911 cellular
callers per government decree, but using it for Location Based
Applications is (to me) a very reasonable value-added product.
For 911 use, the coordinates are forwarded by the cell site to the 911
center, but with LBS apps, it is sent back to the phone, where it is
combined with mapping info or whatever.
And BTW, mapping info beyond very coarse detail, for standalone GPS
units, is not free either.
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| Remove This 2005-12-16, 5:48 pm |
| > ... using it for Location Based
> Applications is (to me) a very reasonable value-added product.
As long as an appropriate "opt-out" schema is in place.
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| goodgutgut@yahoo.com 2005-12-17, 5:48 pm |
| what does this mean? It can only locate you if you call 911? Can't
other phones do the same right now? Can it locate you if the phone is
with you and you haven't called 911?
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| Evan Platt 2005-12-17, 5:48 pm |
| On 17 Dec 2005 07:24:49 -0800, "goodgutgut@yahoo.com"
<goodgutgut@yahoo.com> wrote:
>what does this mean?
What does what mean? Please quote a little of the message you are
replying to.
>It can only locate you if you call 911?
What can only locate you if you call 911?
>Can't other phones do the same right now?
Do the same what?
>Can it locate you if the phone is with you and you haven't called 911?
Can what locate you?
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