"TGIF fishing tomorrow" wrote in message
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Cristian Streng has been digging around in his Google Local For Mobile and
found the following file "GpsEnabled: false." downloaded to his Nokia 6600
phone. What if it said "true"

50 miles out in blue water, looking for a restaurant, gas station, someone
to fix that out-drive. Google Mobile to the rescue.

With GPS Google's service becomes a huge threat to many of the companies
that already sell handheld navigation system like TomTom and Navicore.

The GPS feature could well be waiting for a second release of the service,
or waiting for next-gen handsets with a GPS built into them, to become
more
widely used.

There have been rumbles about Yahoo Maps linking up with mobile phone
companies too.

Won't be long before we can toss the GPS and just use our mobile phones.



Has to have a GPS chip in the phone. When I worked as apps engineer for
Texas Instruments, I worked with a company that was doing the first GPS and
local info content on phones. We, as the phone chip supplier, had embedded
a GPS module in a phone. You still have to get the public to buy the
phones, and are enough going to spring for a 3G phone?