| Debi, Can you tell me more about the python script for revealing the cellid lat/long. Is this for a particular implementation or phone? Do you know of any availability of this data on Windows Mobile 5 smartphones/pocketpcs? Kevin On Apr 12, 2006, at 1:37 PM, Debi Jones wrote: Dan those are GPS solutions. Nextel and Boost Mobile who have deployed A-GPS also provide cellid as a fall back. There are 2 other distinctions for GPS determined location and those are Quick Fix or Full Fix. Full Fix is more accurate, but takes anywhere from 30 secs to 3 mins to deliver. A Quck Fix takes at least 10 secs. You must be outdoors for any of the consumer GPS solutions to return a fix. I was 3 feet inside a Starbucks and the Boost phone I was using had to revert to cellid. And if you're mobile trying to get some information a 10 sec wait fills like an enternity. More times than not the consumer implementation of GPS fails and reverts to cellid which is more useful than no location, but just barely depending on the application. Enterprise implementations of location services from Sprint and Nextel are much better, but there's substantial revenue in those solutions. |
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