"GPS turns cellphones into powerful navigators"
"by Hiawatha Bray | April 17, 2008
If there's anything more useful than a GPS navigation device, it's a GPS device that also lets you order pizza.
Global Positioning Systems are built into millions of cellular phones - 175 million worldwide, according to the research firm Berg Insight. And that number will be well over half a billion in another five years.
In the United States, the GPS phone boom was kicked off by the Federal Communications Commission, which wanted to ensure that emergency workers could find people who place 911 calls from their pocket phones....
Oh, is that how they sold this plate of spy-tracking shit to you, America?
Like the spying powers were needed for "terrorists?"
Now they are spying on us all!
Two of the nation's leading cellphone providers, Sprint Nextel Corp. and Verizon Wireless LLC, decided to comply by putting GPS chips in their phone handsets....
At first, this phone-based GPS was good only for calling the cops; consumers couldn't make use of the technology. But now a number of software firms make downloadable programs that convert GPS-capable phones into powerful navigation tools....
Garmin Ltd., the major producer of GPS devices for motorists and hikers, is also peddling phone software.... Cellphone navigation systems use a combination of GPS satellite signals and data received from cellphone towers. Drive to a rural location not served by your provider, and your phone-based GPS will stop working. Not so with Garmin's SD card, which uses GPS signals only. It will work anyplace with enough open sky to pick up the satellites....
And if there's anything better than GPS, it's free GPS."
Yes, ENSLAVING YOURSELF for FREE is a GREAT THING!!!!
Hey, it's FREE -- just like that bowl of shit the MSM serves up everyday!!!!
