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Cell Phone GPS
I'm scared to post about this because I feel like I may be opening a can of worms.
I have Sprint for a cell phone service. I have a Sanyo mm 7400. I was a passenger on a longish car ride and was bored out of my mind when I downloaded a new applicaion for my cell. It's called TeleNav. It's amazing!
Now everyone knows how much Nextel (yes I know it's now sprint/nextel but i'm talking hardware) touts their GPS equiped phones. Well most if not all 3g cell phones have GPS built in for E911 that supports emergancy locating.
Apparently TeleNav taps this and gives me a full gps navigation unit.
I assume this does not calculate my position based on cell towers as it can give a realtime speed which is accurate. It also does turn-by-turn, voice prompted (!) navigaation.
I'm not really sure how it works, as it seems to be OK with a limited view of the sky, which my hand-held GPS is not.
Does anyone think there maybe a way to extract raw GPS data from the phone? Perhaps a phone-side program who's job it is is to output NEMA (or whatever the GPS standard is) data.
I just think its neat. One could use the cell as a modem (PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do not post about that in this thread) and a GPS, oh yeah, and as a phone.
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