[Geowanking] iPhone Geolocating technology?

[Artem Pavlenko]

How about this one instead - http://www.openmoko.com/press/index.html ?
It has got GPS and it's open for hacking.

Cheers
Artem


On Wednesday 10 January 2007 15:01, Dennis Crowley wrote:
> > Whether or not it's GPS, it seems like this is worthy of more
> > mention.  It certainly looks like someone has finally integrated
> > positioning with an interface that satisfies me in an overall
> > package that is worth while (a bargain, even).
>
> i've been curious about the same - considering got Apple got Cingular
> to do some custom work to provide the three-way calling UI and visual
> voicemail, perhaps they've cut some deal with them to make use of
> previous unreleased / unused positioning tech Cingular has.
>
> /d
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> On Jan 10, 2007, at 9:45 AM, Joe Germuska wrote:
> > So, it seems to be underreported in the coverage of the Apple
> > iPhone, but I've seen a couple of references to it having some kind
> > of positioning technology.  Actually, a photo caption in the
> > Chicago Tribune's "Red Eye" tabloid says that it's actually GPS.  I
> > had guessed that because of cost it might be some lower precision
> > technology (but I don't claim to know that much about the tech
> > details or costs, hence my interest in getting opinions from
> > members of this list...)
> >
> > Whether or not it's GPS, it seems like this is worthy of more
> > mention.  It certainly looks like someone has finally integrated
> > positioning with an interface that satisfies me in an overall
> > package that is worth while (a bargain, even).
> >
> > I know all about Apple secrecy, but wondering if people know (or
> > just want to wildly speculate) any more about this...
> >
> > Joe
> >
> >
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