Mark, Thanks for an article, just wanted to address the LBS "missing signal" and "weak batteries" issue.
1) Basically, you're right, those problems exist and, for example, Commandro has some tricks inside it in order to correctly respond to missing signals, as well as it can be run as a background service (without UI at all) with minimal and rare GPS interaction in order to keep saving battery. 2) There are also some solutions on the hardware side which we hope will be used in new Android phones, such as u-blog highly sensitive low-power chips as well as increasing the number of signal processing correlators (http://lbs.gpsworld.com/gpslbs/Indoor+Positioning/Indoor- GPS-The-No-Chip-Challenge/ArticleLong/Article/detail/501030? contextCategoryId=33822). 3) A sophisticated Location Provider created by Google which will be able to integrate the last known GPS position data with Cell ID approximations (when the phone is out of GPS range) can also become really helpful, do you read me Google? Just my 2 cents. Regards, Alex --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Challenge" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-challenge?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
