Sprint Announces Cell Tower Triangulation Enabled MS Live Search

[LotekJunky]

Why does sprint keep adding features to their crummy regular phones, and forget about us with the real "magic screens" in our pockets?

[dcd]

Originally Posted by LotekJunky

Why does sprint keep adding features to their crummy regular phones, and forget about us with the real "magic screens" in our pockets?

at least we have huge clocks

[TC1]

Originally Posted by dcd

at least we have huge clocks

LMAO!

[rockrerun]

it does not say what devices are supported. It only states what phones will be able to use the voice search feature.

[Pibe38]

Merged yet another thread on the same topic.

[LotekJunky]

Originally Posted by dcd

at least we have huge clocks

Well, some of us do.

[CozBoogie]

It's not the size of your clock that matters...it how well your clock keeps time that matters.

late,
Coz

EDIT: sorry for not keeping this on topic...please don't ban me

[saqer]

Highly improbable that they'll release a WM version that enables triangulation on our phones. Maybe with EVDO Rev. A rolling out soon, the Mogul might be able to use triangulation but I'm pretty skeptical that'll happen for other phones like the 6700. Sprint it seems is pretty adamant not to give out that feature for PPC owners or AGPS for that matter.

I would also like to vent at how poorly this was released and advertised. At the very least they could have said that PPC's are not on the supported devices list. I spent hours looking for it...lol

[SINNN]

ahhh.....mogul not supported. lets just hope we get real gps with rev.a upgrade. If we even get either.

[dishe]

Originally Posted by Pibe38

It's not really GPS enabled... it uses cell towers to triangulate the position. And even though AGPS uses cell towers, I don't think we are there yet.

Also, from that list of devices that support the voice commands, I don't see this available for our devices, but we can only hope.

EDIT: I merged another existing thread on this topic as well.

I don't understand... why are we so sure this isn't the same technology as AGPS?
The definition of AGPS is a location fix that uses tower triangulation to find the rough area that the phone exists, then often a simplified onboard GPS chip will confirm and get a more accurate fix based on this data.

Now, every CDMA phone over the last several years (as far as I know) has been mandated to include what they call "AGPS" for emergency 911 purposes. Pocket PC's included.
Now, as I understand it, the "AGPS" used in these phones are not as sophisticated as full blown receivers and are only accurate to within 100 yards. According to the specifications of AGPS, it should be much more accurate than that, so I'm wondering if "AGPS" is just a loosely used term.

In any event, the article here states:

...makes use of cell-tower triangulation, and not GPS, to determine the users location, making it somewhat less accurate but far more widely available.

There are not many phones on the market with standalone GPS enabled, however if all phones have AGPS for e911, and are accurate to within 100 yards (as this triangulation technology claims to be) wouldn't you think that this is the "more widely available" tech that they are referring to?

I would like to consider that perhaps this is actually "AGPS" as the industry calls it, and perhaps not as accurate as a real GPS chip, its a good start!