No, there is no GPS transmitter either. I think you are confused by the locator service that Sprint offers "Sprint Family Locator" - it locates you based on your cell phone's radio signals. GPS is something different. It's a specific system of satellites and it has nothing to do with the carrier. You can get a GPS device that is not part of a phone. Some phones DO have GPS receivers built into them, but the Treo 700wx doesn't. If it did, you would not need an external GPS device to locate yourself. Google Maps has been trying to use this carrier-specific locating service to do a kind of "poor man's GPS" - poor man's because it only has an accuracy of within 10's, perhaps hundreds of meters, whereas true GPS is accurate to within less than 10 meters I believe.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > ppsn168 > Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2008 11:55 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Treo] Re: 700wx GPS puzzle > > Are you saying there is (by law) a GPS transmitter, but no receiver? > > --- In [email protected], Levi Wallach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Yes, but you need an external GPS. There's no GPS receiver in the > 700wx. > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of > > > ppsn168 > > > Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2008 11:46 AM > > > To: [email protected] > > > Subject: [Treo] 700wx GPS puzzle > > > > > > I recently download Google Maps to the 700wx and got it displaying > > > favorite addresses properly. Nice tool! > > > > > > One of the "Menu" items for this program is "Track Location", which > is > > > supposed to fire-up the GPS and figure out where the phone is. > Mine > > > tells me "Your GPS receiver does not appear to be responding." I > even > > > took it to the local Verizon store for assistance and they failed > to > > > get it working. Tech support has indicated that there is some > > > security issue with Google Maps which Verizon choose not to deal > with. > > > > > > Has anyone gotten this feature to work, and how? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > >
