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On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, Michael wrote:
Different from what? Is there a way for you to find your location
using an ordinary cell phone? Apparently Google is planning to make it
possible for you to do that (probably to within three miles in the
worst case). If there is some way for me to do that now, please tell me
what it is. If the phone company can do it, great, but it doesn't do me
any good unless they are willing to tell me where I am.
The companies and the phones can tell where you are. They just lock the
info from you because they suck. Some phones even had the info available
to all programs and then were changed by an update to block the info
unless you paid a lot of money to join the developer's program. I'm
pretty sure that ever since they were required to put 911 on cell phones
that all cell phones and carriers have been required to be able to give
your phones approximate location.
Some carriers will let you see this info in their proprietary
interfaces. Nextel phones often have this option and they do not include
GPS in the phone.
Right. And the Google plan seems to be that they will somehow make this
location information available to the cell phone user. Thus, the Google
plan is *different* from any anything that exists now, as far as I know,
because it will allow very large numbers of cell phone users to determine
their current locations.
The controller would be the phone. It's just a toy that happens to use
the cell network to talk to servers - no need to make phone calls on it.
Or at least phone calls wouldn't be the primary purpose. It might be
weird talking into something that looks like a Wiimote.
Then you need some way for the phone to detect its own movements and
orientation. That might not be built into many phones.
Mike
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