X50v and Phone GPS

SlowIce · 10-25-05, 07:46 PM

Is there a software which would be able to use the GPS of my phone via bluetooth to display my location on a map?

darkdestroyer · 10-25-05, 08:02 PM

How do those "location" gps tracker in phones work these days?
Some of them are "911 only" while others can be "location on" all the time. Can i track this "location" via a website?
Im using Verizon's MOto E815

SlowIce · 10-25-05, 08:19 PM

Originally Posted by darkdestroyer

How do those "location" gps tracker in phones work these days?
Some of them are "911 only" while others can be "location on" all the time. Can i track this "location" via a website?
Im using Verizon's MOto E815

thats the phone i am goign to get omorrow.

The GPS in phones is actually not GPS. They get their coordinates on measuring the signal strangth to three towers, and then the phone knows an estimated position.

i am just wonderign if i can use that source as 'GPS'signal for tracking my route on a map instead of a bluetooth-gps system.. the one in the phone comes free...

Most phones can be programmed to be 911 gps only or all the time...

Storino03 · 10-25-05, 09:41 PM

It uses GPS from the satellites, not from area cell towers.

SlowIce · 10-25-05, 09:47 PM

Originally Posted by Storino03

It uses GPS from the satellites, not from area cell towers.

are you sure? because none of those cell phones have a build in gps antenna. i took my 'gps' phone apart

Storino03 · 10-25-05, 10:35 PM

The GPS program I tried on my sprint sanyo phone connected to GPS satellites and was able to give me the usual driving directions with real-time movements...and you needed to have the phone in an open environment to get it to get a gps signal.