GPS Services Assist People in Their Daily Lives

[Archived in Entry, Pc Pda, Pda Gps]

Andrew Shuttleworth on 2004/02/09:

  „Interesting article on the growing use of GPS services. Trends in Japan: KEEPING TRACK I recently bought a GPS Compact Flash card for use with a PC/PDA. PHS phones can also be used to pinpoint your location although with less...“

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Some slightly related:

Not your typical Monday madness

  „As the major media and short-sighted analysts continue to trash camera phones for their poor resolution, some people are actually realizing that it's not the camera that makes it interesting, but the fact that the camera is connected. Here's yet another example of some people trying to take advantage of a camera phone for its ability to do something that a regular camera cannot do. Everyone is talking about location-based services, and one of the reasons why many think they're finally set to take off is that most new phones have GPS included as part of the efforts to get E-911 location services in place for emergency phone calls.“

http://www.stargeek.com/item/14887.html - Cached

Business card-sized PDA

  „Very stripped-down PDA from Citizen with a couple of interesting features. Looks rather like their PC-card data reader of yore, but this has an SDIO slot that'll take a PHS, wLAN or Bluetooth card, an IrDA infrared port, and USB (looks like a USB cradle) for synchronising with a PC. No web browser, but it supports TCP/IP, SMTP/POP, and PPP for mail.“

Found at a page of aragoto, posted on 2003/10/28

http://WWW.DOTTOCOMU.COM/b/archives/000551.html - Cached

Appendix D. Site Reports-Japan

  „The P-POINTSsystem is configured as follows: P-POINTS links, by radio, to a PDA(personal digital assistant) equipped with a PHS (personal handysystem), which in turn links to a base station and, through an ISDNpublic network, a host node. The following are parameters of theP-POINTS system:“

http://www.wtec.org/loyola/wireless/0d_10.htm - Cached

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