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Qualcomm Improves Integrated GPS

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Jul 18, 2005, 1:29 PM   by (staff)

Updated  Qualcomm today announced they have improved the assisted GPS (aGPS) technology in their chipsets to be more accurate, and making the technology easier for developers to take advantage of. The new gpsOne software will allow developers to more easily create location based services, including, Qualcomm points out, the ability to use a phone's GPS radio for in-car navigation. Qualcomm includes gpsOne aGPS location technology in all of their phone chipsets.

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jed_ed

Jul 18, 2005, 2:20 PM

Network Trinagulation?

Obvious newbie here. If someone has the time could you describe how network triangulation works? It's just out of curiousity.

Thanks
jed_ed said:
Obvious newbie here. If someone has the time could you describe how network triangulation works? It's just out of curiousity.

Thanks


Essentially the carrier and law enforcement (or whoever else is ...
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Triangulation is the basis for nearly all radio-based position-location technologies.

The basic idea starts with measuring the distance of what you want to locate (the phone) from three points with known locations (three towers, or three GPS satell...
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http://www.snaptrack.com/ »

Everything is explained there in detail.

Synchronize your base station pilot signals using GPS and they can replace one or more of three faint GPS sat signals with stronger cell network signals. Suddenly, you have GPS ...
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