On Mon, 05 Jun 2006 20:51:59 +0800, tim(not at home)
wrote:
>They havent. Very few of the current crop of European phones have
>hardware/software in them that determines their location. If you are
>correct in your assertion that there is a web site that can track a
>phone
Try putting mobile phone and tracking into a search engine. There
is not *a* web site that offers the service. There are *lots* of web
sites that offer the service!
> then this information IS collated solely from the information
>available at the basestation(s), there is no other way.
Perhaps you could explain what information that the base station
routinely collects that could be used to determine a 2-D location.
>GPS is being developed for inclusion in phones. It is currently big
>(in modile phone terms) expensive and very power hungry. You will
>not find this in your run of the mill phone.
GPS would not be much good for tracking the average mobile phone.
Mobile phones are typically carried in a way that would block the GPS
signals for most of the time (GPS frequencies are blocked by the human
body). Its usefulness would be to the owner of the phone who wishes
to use it as a GPS rather than a 3rd party who wishes to locate the
phone.
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