I would like to capture the lat/lon coordinates from a GPS-enabled cell
phone or PDA. Is this possible? Must I subscribe to this information
from the cellphone network provider, or can I capture it without charge?
What devices will broadcast the coordinates? Is there a device that
Hi There,
this is very much dependent from your provider, your PDA/cell phone and the
network. For GSM networks in Europe e.g. the providers have different types
of information available through the CB channels of their base stations.
This data can always be read and stored in your
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 07:17:52AM -0600, Rich Adamson wrote:
Its my understanding the cell phone coordinates are sent to the cell phone
provider and their equipment reads (and holds) that data. Its not part
of any data available to you in any form unless you talk to the cell
provider and
In the US, Sprint's CDMA network will do the fancy GPS+AFLT business,
but like someone else mentioned, it only sends the location data back
to Sprint's network. There is an API that you can use to access this
data for your handsets, but you have to pay some amount of money for
each location fix.
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On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 07:17:52AM -0600, Rich Adamson wrote:
Its my understanding the cell phone coordinates are sent to the cell phone
provider
Some more recent phones have the possibility to be connected to seperate
GSM-boxes. E.g. there is a plug-in for the (older) Nokia 9210(i)/9290(i)
Communicators and most of the Symbian phones with Bluetooth support can be
connected to any Bluetooth-enabled GPS-mouse ...
I think, getting the
