On Nov 9, 2007 3:36 PM, Tomi N/A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's an idea. > Let's say that the phone keeps a complete history of it's movement in > space and time (or spacetime, if you like). ... > When you're phone is stolen - and the above behavior is made > SIM-independent - you get regular tips on where your phone is and how > it got there. > The only thing a thief could do is sabotage/overwrite the program...or > to keep moving. :)
This is yet another great idea. One consideration with regard to power: I'm not entirely sure how much network traffic my 2 year old CDMA LG from Sprint uses while doing this sort of positional mapping (I use the "Allsport GPS" program while I bikeride actually, works rather nicely and gives gmaps as output) but assuming only 1 network ping to get ephemeris data, the phone dies after about 6 hours. I've estimated its position fixing to be about once every 2-3 seconds. To be considered, however, is that while in a java applet my phone never turns off the display; it only dims. Mike _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community