Verizon wireless - Re: Apple iPhone is GSM

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Re: Apple iPhone is GSM - GPS ?

Steve Sobol

2007-07-18, 10:33 am

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On 2007-07-18, =?windows-1252?Q?JDa=99=A9?= <JDaNospam@nospam.net> wrote:

> Looking through the spec's, theres no reference to GPS.
> Isn't GPS *required* by the FCC on all new phones, so to
> be compatible with new 911 location services?
>
> If its not there, how did they get around not including GPS?

Heh Jack, I figured you wouldn't answer my question about why you continue
to post here. :) Coward.

GPS *or* triangulation is required, as I understand it, and Cingular may use
triangulation instead of GPS.

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