Cell phones and GPS

Does Cingular (or any other) offer or are they planning on offering cell
phones with
a GPS location finder feature?

Thanks.

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>Does Cingular (or any other) offer or are they planning on offering cell
>phones with
>a GPS location finder feature?
>

Are you looking for something that you personally can use to locate yourself
and maybe track through the woods or something?

Probably not.

As for 911 emergency services they are all being offered!

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On 22 Aug 2004 13:33:50 GMT, [email protected]pamfree (John S.)
wrote:

>>Does Cingular (or any other) offer or are they planning on offering cell
>>phones with
>>a GPS location finder feature?
>>
>
>Are you looking for something that you personally can use to locate yourself
>and maybe track through the woods or something?
>
>Probably not.

http://www.garmin.com/products/navTalkGSM/

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"Scott en Aztlan" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On 22 Aug 2004 13:33:50 GMT, [email protected]pamfree (John S.)
> wrote:
>
>>>Does Cingular (or any other) offer or are they planning on offering
>>>cell
>>>phones with
>>>a GPS location finder feature?
>>>
>>
>>Are you looking for something that you personally can use to locate
>>yourself
>>and maybe track through the woods or something?
>>
>>Probably not.
>
> http://www.garmin.com/products/navTalkGSM/
>
> --


Thanks.

Stubby Boardman wrote:

>
> "Scott en Aztlan" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>
>> On 22 Aug 2004 13:33:50 GMT, [email protected]pamfree (John S.)
>> wrote:
>>
>>>> Does Cingular (or any other) offer or are they planning on offering
>>>> cell
>>>> phones with
>>>> a GPS location finder feature?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Are you looking for something that you personally can use to locate
>>> yourself
>>> and maybe track through the woods or something?
>>>
>>> Probably not.
>>
>>
>> http://www.garmin.com/products/navTalkGSM/
>>
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>
>
>
> Thanks.
>

That's the only thing that makes me wish I didn't live in the U.S. -
cooler cell phones.

On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 23:25:39 -0500, Cambie <[email protected]> wrote:

>That's the only thing that makes me wish I didn't live in the U.S. -
>cooler cell phones.

Sadly, this particular one doesn't operate on the right frequency
bands, but there's no reason why something similar cannot be produced
for the US market. In fact, Garmin's original NavTalk was an AMPS
analog cellular phone; why they chose to ignore the US market with
their GSM NavTalk boggles the mind...

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In <[email protected]> on Mon, 23 Aug 2004 22:07:42
-0700, Scott en Aztlan <[email protected]> wrote:

>On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 23:25:39 -0500, Cambie <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>That's the only thing that makes me wish I didn't live in the U.S. -
>>cooler cell phones.
>
>Sadly, this particular one doesn't operate on the right frequency
>bands, but there's no reason why something similar cannot be produced
>for the US market. ...

The reason is the babel in the US market, which greatly reduces the benefits
of enconomy of scale, thanks to piss poor government policies. So instead of
having a wealth of compatible product choices (as they do in Europe), we have
a wealth of less attractive incompatible alternatives.

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Best regards, HELP FOR CINGULAR GSM & SONY ERICSSON PHONES:
John Navas <http://navasgrp.home.att.net/#Cingular>

Scott en Aztlan wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 23:25:39 -0500, Cambie <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>>That's the only thing that makes me wish I didn't live in the U.S. -
>>cooler cell phones.
>
>
> Sadly, this particular one doesn't operate on the right frequency
> bands, but there's no reason why something similar cannot be produced
> for the US market. In fact, Garmin's original NavTalk was an AMPS
> analog cellular phone; why they chose to ignore the US market with
> their GSM NavTalk boggles the mind...
>

yeah, i know the CAN produce the same phones for the US market, but the
simple fact is they don't. I still wish we could make purchases from
vending machines using our cell phones, or flirt with the girl sitting
across from me on the subway by sending in infrared msg (or whatever
that was i read about a while back). oh well.