-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said:
| What's the advantage of the other ways of locating yourself (GSM, WiFi) | over GPS? Power, and they work inside buildings away from windows. GSM at least will be powered anyway in the normal case, so polling that every 10 minutes or whatever is relatively cheap. WLAN just needs to come up long enough for a scan and can go back to sleep if not already in use. It can use GPS as an input too, I don't know the power consumption but I know in my work room anyway where I spend most time, at least the proprietary satnav we have here cannot get a signal unless I go outside. I guess it is the same in most buildings and that is where people are most time so it can't be relied on I think. I really would love WLAN to scavenge open connections as well at the same time (Holger mentioned this idea but I already cherished it). So if you walk down a street and you didn't have Internet connection for a while, it keeps seeing new APs each scan and on the basis it deduces you are moving, it can increase the frequency of waking for scan and trying for association and DHCP on anything it finds, update mail and rss, maybe alert you it scored a connection. |> or vibrate, different sorting order for contacts based on who you |> contacted from that place, etc. | | The latter is very interesting! Indeed: I live in Norway but sometimes Yes I think if we had a daemon that published information and events about "place" we would find uses for it, but this kind of thing is real easy to talk about and much harder to get really right. - -Andy -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkfs1jwACgkQOjLpvpq7dMqUegCfZSO6XY0kH8BvGg+vR4GRSxoW 9zgAniC+kMWc42eR0/Seao/YMYPIak7y =W67H -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community