I thought I'd try this service out. It works pretty well at locating. Accuracy varies, but seems to be within a hundred yards, but sometimes within just a few yards! It's not a GPS service per se. It will locate you and others on your plan (or other Sprint users that give you permission to locate them), but that's it. In other words, you wouldn't use it to navigate the way you would with TomTom and an actual GPS receiver. That being said, it's pretty neat and has some interesting potential applicatios, such has tracking the location of your kids who have a phone, or tracking your phone if stolen or simply lost. Of course it won't work if the phone's power goes out. Unfortunately you have to do the tracking on a computer, or on a phone that you can download the java app to. Apparently this Java app is not compatible with the Java runtime that is available for the PalmOS, so no go running it on the Treo, and you can't access the website interface in Blazer because I think it uses a java applet. The service is $10/month. Also, you can have it track your location at specific times of the day and send you an email alert (or text message). It can then display an historical series of "breadcrumbs" on the map, indicating your position over time. Seems like a cool app to play with, but I don't think I want to give Sprint $10/month for the priveledge, so will probably cancel before the month is out...
Levi -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Don Pomplun Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 11:55 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Treo] Re: (probably) no GPS in 700p At 04:27 AM 5/17/2007, you wrote: >Some phones have built in (usable bi-directional) GPS. The Treo does not. > >Jose wrote: > > Sprint implents this service for its customers... > > > > http://sfl.sprintpcs.com > > > > And I've seen services out there that allow you to use your cellphone as a > > gps unit, but am not sure if it is a java app using the towers as > > triangulation or the phone itself having the GPS chipset. > > > > > > Regards, > > > > Jose The mystery remains mysterious . . . Jose's link says: A GPS receiver is incorporated into every Sprint phone sold since January 2002. Sprint Family Locator supports the following phone models: Child (Locatable) Phones Treo 700p by Palm Perhaps the bugaboo is that it only works with Child Phones, and who in their right mind, would give their kid a 700p ;=) Besides, I've heard that kids think that Palms are uncool, so no kid would carry one. You'd have to have it implanted. -- Don [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links
