On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 10:59 +0100, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > I don't know if they could even sell a phone if the GSM and GPS parts aren't > the official closed ones, so here's to hoping to one of two things: > 1) GPS can be free'd > 2) they can attach it externally and just read/write commands > as in the GSM modem
I don't think there's a problem with the GPS - iirc, the "law" is that it can only work below certain altitudes and speeds, so it would never work if you were flying, but I think that's actually encoded into the chips themselves in most cases rather than being a software limitation. The GPS limitation would be a military requirement rather than a civilian one - which is where the radio limitations come into play with wifi / GSM / etc. - so I would imagine a software limit wouldn't be good enough for them :) > Still, a hell of a lot better than any other options at the moment! :) Yeah, I think they've done an amazing job. Cheers, Alex. _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
