On Jan 25, 2008 5:37 PM, joerg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Fr 25. Januar 2008 schrieb hank williams: > [...] > > "It appears that, in essence, the patents cover a phone providing current > > location information to a remote database which returns to the phone a > > collection of location centric information. According to the patent > > application, this location centric information could include real estate > > information, such as homes, condominiums, etc, but also parks, restaurant > > menus, services offered, hotels, hotel availability, and on and on." > > Whatever they might have (or think they have) with this patent, i don't mind. > I *never* will give away GPS-data from my private cell phone to a centralized > database, may it be google, TomTom, or whoever. I like my privacy, and even > hate being traced by GSM-cell handover right now for 6 months storage of data > in whole europe right since start of year. :-( And even less i need "location > centric info" based on this DB.
Hmm... The patent purports to cover getting *any* information based on where you are, including maps. So unless all the map information or whatever information you need can fit on your phone you are not interested in it? I guess you better wait for some *really* big flash memory chips. :) Hank ----------------------------------------- whydoeseverythingsuck.com _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
