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Personal GPS in a Mobile Phone
i4u writes "NTT DoCoMo announced today that it will introduce it's first Global Positioning Service (GPS)-compatible handset F661i, at the end of April.
The GPS mobile phone enables users to determine their location at the touch of a button, and download location specific information via i-mode like graphical maps and other interesting information about the area.
This is not like the GPS functionality that the US Phone companies introduced so far. In the US the GPS coordinates are only used for emergencies and not yet for actually providing value to the user in other situations.
Users of the F661i can send their current location to other i-mode enabled phones. In addition, a memo function allows users to store location information, including map, telephone numbers and addresses.
The phone supports three applications of the GPS functionality:
1)The GPS enabled Phone can be tracked by via a service, useful for instance for parents to track their kids. See also the Wherify GPS Person Locator.
2)Submission of current location in case of emergency to pre-defined organizations, like police, fire departments etc. Similar to the GPS functionality available in the US.
3)The F661i also can be used by businesses to track their delivery trucks and more. Similar to Car GPS devices."
Slap a tracking device on my ass. That's just what the government WANTS me to do! They'll know where I am at all times. Hrm, actually, that might be useful for tracking my alien abductions and lost time...
Tin-foil hat time :)
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they'll know exactly where they are when the call for help.
You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner.
Now my woman will be able to prove I was in the bar and not working late at the office. Is there to be no escape !!!
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
What, you're scared of your mom knowing where you are?
Let's hear it for technology!
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Where are the tools to fight the eventual demise of our liberty?
How many bonehead people doing criminal activities via cell phone will purchase these, and then be mystified at how the cops know exactly where they are. I am thinking automatic jail time for being a moron.
I guess the only way to be immune to the government spying powers is to be Amish or something. Or do they have that covered as well?
The CIA has all their cows, horses and butter churns wired. The Amish are subversive, leftist commies and terrorists because they keep to themselves in their secretive communities, pay with cash (or chickens) to hide their nefarious purchases from John Ashcroft, and avoid technology that can track their movements. They obviously have something to hide. When will the government put an end to this scourge, the Amish?
I suppose when your enemy is trying to figure out where you are so they can drop bombs and grenades on you, it's best not to have a beacon broadcasting your GPS location!
Yeah, I have to work late tonight.
No I won't be home for dinner...
whats that? What am I doing at your sisters house?
ummmm - must be Russian GPS jamming equipment - damn phone - I guess I'll have to take it in for service.
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It's going to be kind of hard to call in sick when your boss is going to note that your location is the beach or the golf course.
That way my co-workers could actually end up eating lunch at the same restaurant.
It's not wasting time, I'm educating myself.
I was looking at various gadgets today, and spotted a GPS receiver PC card, and thought: "That'd be cool to have, so I always know where I am!". This was quickly followed by another though: "...but I know where my room is."