> > In other words, like it or not, if this patent is valid (who knows) > and its scope is what it looks like (I'm not a lawyer) it will have a > significant impact on the *phone* world. In other words, *you* consider GTA to be a *phone*, nothing else and not beyond. You're kidding? Like it or not, the GTA/OpenMoko is a *computer* with built in GSM-modem, and i don't think many of the customers will opt for an off-board solution that fails when leaving GSM coverage area, while they got the cpu-power to calculate the route and may *easily* feed the hilarious amount of 256MB map data to their 4GB local storage, thus saving the 1.5$ per server-side route calculation off-board.
This "patent" might have impact on future forms of advertisement, or even on the fee you have to pay for off-board route calculation (if you think you need such a stupid thing), but i don't feel it will influence any of the things i ever could imagine i plan to do with a GSM enabled PDA. j _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community