On 1/10/07, Kris Kolodziej <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The iPhone is using Cingular's network, which is a U-TDOA location-enabled network that might be used to locate the iPhone. But is there a build-in location app on the iPhone already?
There seems to be. This Information Week article quotes Woz as saying that the lack of built-in GPS is one of his regrets about the iPhone: http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/01/counting_down_t.html On the other hand, this Forbes article says that it is GPS: http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/01/09/ap3314961.html This article also describes the stunt Steve pulled to find a Starbucks near Moscone and order 4000 lattes. But I imagine that it's easy for the media to be sloppy about the technical details and say GPS whether or not that's how it happens. I just figured GPS was (relatively) expensive for a device that is selling for $500. (perhaps subsidized by a Cingular kickback, but...) I mean, we've all known that our phones know where we are -- I'm just assuming that Apple decided to expose that information to applications -- that's the kind of thing Steve Jobs would just insist on. People are harping on the price, but I don't understand that. In the US, there are not comparable devices for comparable prices (assuming I know anything about comparing to a product which hasn't been released.) Nokia's internet tablet is about $350 and is Wi-Fi only. This new Treo 750 is $400. Maybe other markets have better gear, but in the US, this is definitely something new. -- Joe Germuska [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://blog.germuska.com "The truth is that we learned from João forever to be out of tune." -- Caetano Veloso
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