Posted by axxxr
A new company called BlueSky Positioning has come up with a complete GPS unit built into a mobile phone SIM card.
Esato News
Blue Sky Positioning announced it has developed a complete GPS system, including the antenna, which physically fits in, and works from within, a mobile phone SIM slot. GPS receivers have been rapidly shrinking in recent years, but this marks a massive reduction in size as well as the technical feat of receiving GPS satellite signals from a space sandwiched between the phone battery and circuit board. It's A-GPS, so much of the processing is done off the SIM, using data sent over SMS or similar.
The technological advance is considerable; it could certainly deliver the full mapping, location and route-plannin. No software or hardware changes are needed for legacy handsets, it will run under open operating system such as Windows Mobile or Symbian, or on handsets supporting JSR177 (which enables Java applications to talk to the SIM) and switching the SIM will obviously cost a fraction of the cost of a new handset.
Blue Sky Positioning says it is at the prototype stage and is working with SIM manufacturers to start production with samples ready next month. www.blueskypositioning.com source:mbmagazine smartphonethoughts
Posted by Miss UK
Darm so we can kiss goodbye to free sim cards now can we?
the networks will be wanting to charge for these surely
Posted by Akaly
Actually, this was news several months ago...
Posted by axxxr
On 2007-06-28 16:58:52, Akaly wrote:
Actually, this was news several months ago...
Could you please provide a link as to where this news was posted several months ago?
Posted by batesie
On 2007-06-28 16:58:52, Akaly wrote:
Actually, this was news several months ago...
prove your claim so axxxr can eat humble pie....
or
dont bother posting pointless statements!
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Posted by BBS
Good news. Congratulation!
Posted by batesie
this is clever stuff, this allows gps to be used by a wider audience. and the security services to track even more of us! l
Posted by PeterKay
brilliant idea, hope it comes quickly!
Posted by axxxr
PK then hopefully you'll be giving these out as freebies!
Posted by PeterKay
No Chance, these i'll keep 
Posted by arien617
These will be cool.
Now the receivers have gotten this small, the only thing holding dedicated Nav systems on the market back from getting smaller is the screen size.
Should start to see ultra slim nav systems soon then.
Posted by djtwistter
On 2007-06-28 18:01:54, PeterKay wrote:
No Chance, these i'll keep
Posted by Akaly
http://www.amobil.no/artikkel[....]_kommer_gps_i_sim-kortet/38830
This article is in Norwegian, but in english the header says "Now is GPS for your SIM-card coming!". And the article is about what you wrote about. So this is infact old news.
And here is one in english too. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/26/gps_sim/
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[ This Message was edited by: Akaly on 2007-06-28 23:05 ]
Posted by axxxr
Even if it is an old story we haven't covered this news on esato before so it is a New Story for us.
Posted by Akaly
Well, duh.
Posted by PeterKay
If its not posted on esato, its not news to me.............
thanks Axxxr for this information
Posted by deluded
Yeah, good job axxxr.
@akaly, if you had posted it on Esato 7 months back, I think we would understand your position. But as it is, I think I don't really see your point here.
Posted by djtwistter
On 2007-06-28 23:52:00, Akaly wrote:
http://www.amobil.no/artikkel[....]_kommer_gps_i_sim-kortet/38830
This article is in Norwegian, but in english the header says "Now is GPS for your SIM-card coming!". And the article is about what you wrote about. So this is infact old news.
And here is one in english too. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/26/gps_sim/
[ This Message was edited by: Akaly on 2007-06-28 22:52 ]
[ This Message was edited by: Akaly on 2007-06-28 23:05 ]
dude axxxr does a great job and i take it as fresh news
Posted by Akaly
Well, I agree that it is a well-written article by Axxxr, but news from April is hardly news anymore.
Posted by arien617
On 2007-06-29 11:18:21, Akaly wrote:
Well, I agree that it is a well-written article by Axxxr, but news from April is hardly news anymore.
It is if I ain't heard about it...
Posted by axxxr
On 2007-06-29 11:18:21, Akaly wrote:
Well, I agree that it is a well-written article by Axxxr, but news from April is hardly news anymore.
oh lord some people!
so what exactly is your point here anyway? ...that i shouldn't have bothered posting it on esato?
Posted by deluded
Nah, @axxxr, just keep up the good job you've been doing, there are people who appreciate what you're doing, me included.
Posted by Akaly
Well, why get so pissed because I point out that this is old news? I appreciate news on Esato, but I think right should be right and old news is old news.
Posted by Miss UK
Chilldown,
AXXR only posted it because it hadn't been metioned previousley on the forum before