On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 10:59 +0100, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
I don't know if they could even sell a phone if the GSM and GPS parts aren't the official closed ones, so here's to hoping to one of two things:
- GPS can be free'd
- they can attach it externally and just read/write commands as in the GSM modem
I don't think there's a problem with the GPS - iirc, the "law" is that it can only work below certain altitudes and speeds, so it would never work if you were flying, but I think that's actually encoded into the chips themselves in most cases rather than being a software limitation.
The GPS limitation would be a military requirement rather than a civilian one - which is where the radio limitations come into play with wifi / GSM / etc. - so I would imagine a software limit wouldn't be good enough for them :)
Still, a hell of a lot better than any other options at the moment! :)
Yeah, I think they've done an amazing job.
Cheers,
Alex.