Comments on: iPhone 3G: Under the hood

By: cberkop

cberkop — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:02:37 +0000

I would hope that any cell phone manufacturer would have the means to turn off the GPS receiver in the phone to conserve battery power, especially someone like Apple. Now I can see LG not having that function in the MiGo Phone, but for something like the iPhone, yeah I would hope you could turn it off.

Steve, A buddy of mine works for Motorola and they have a phone that does just that. In fact he has one for his mother who has alzheimer’s, and had to use once or twice to find her.

By: steve

steve — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:04:32 +0000

jonhy, I think you meant “gsm tracking is much ‘less’ accurate than gps”. At least I hope that’s what you meant. And although gps is truly receive only, a phone is certainly not. So when you put the two together, your device could transmit your exact geographic coordinates over the wireless data network. In fact you would probably want it to do just that in some cases.

Imagine a “find your phone” app where you logon to a computer and ask where your phone is when you can’t find it. That would be very useful to an absent-minded person like myself.

By: James

James — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:50:14 +0000

I’m sorry, “gsm tracking… is much more accurate than gps”? On what planet?

By: jonhy bob

jonhy bob — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:51:32 +0000

no alex jones
gsm tracking is done from the towers and is much more accurate than gps

gps is receive only, your tin foil hat won’t help you

By: ejonesss

ejonesss — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:23:21 +0000

infineon pmb2525 hammerhead 2 gps chip.

there has been some privacy concerns over built in gps so what would happen if you took an exacto knife to the gps chip and removed the chip?

yould that disable the gps so others could not track you?

By: ouphie

ouphie — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:34:29 +0000

I work for Triquint and was stoked to hear we were in the new iPhone. Though the most I could get out of anyone was a “neither confirm nor deny” speech. Now if we can just muscle what remains of Skyworks and Infineon out…