LBS or GPS information viewable on Treo 650?

[23T]

Has anyone tried to find the Location Based Services(LBS) information on their Treo? Most carriers use GPS coordinates to utilize LBS on cell phones, I think this information would be immensely useful and down right cool if we could view this info on our phones.

Here's a primer>>

http://developers.sun.com/techtopic...icles/location/

Can this be done? Any Palm OS developers out there attempt this? Of course when you ask the carriers about it they say "no, you can't see that information, it's only for 911". Personally I think their full of it and I think the right developer/programmer could dig this information out of the phones.

I am not a programmer, but I am willing to bet that once you enable LBS on your phone, that information HAS to be loaded somewhere in memory. Whether it's GPS coordinates or some other tracking/location information. All we need to do it write a program to go find it and display it on our screen.

What do you think? How cool would that be. Put it this way, it would be yet another application available on the Treo, without having to buy $$$ some third party GPS hardware/software package.

If the location information is already in the phone, why not try to find it ourselves and use it!

Thoughts...comments...

- 23T

<<I posted this also on treocentral>>

[JackAxe]

I worked on a demo showing LBS on a V710 and was able to try it out. I guess the main thing, is that the local towers need to be upgraded in order to make it work. But does the Treo650 have GPS built in? I thought it did, but now I can't find anything that states that it does.

These are the peeps that make LBS software for phones; (If the Treo does have GPS, then contacting them might lead to a solution.)
http://www.networksinmotion.com/index.html

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[23T]

Cool, thanks JackAxe. I will check these guys out. Although, the goal I have in mind is to create some sort of freeware/shareware program to just grab the GPS info off the phone and display it. But I will check with these guys and see what they have.

Thanks!

- 23T

[JackAxe]

Cool. I finally found a linke specifying that the T650 has built-in GPS, so their software can definitely be adapted for it. :)

A freebee app would be nice though.

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[23T]

Excellent, so now we know the 650 holds GPS information. Now we just need to write an app to grab it and display it on the screen.

I may have to start learning Palm OS code programming.. :eek:

thanks again for the input. Please post if you run across and other info regarding.

thanks,


- 23T