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Current Status of GPS Support for SprintPCS Network
Posted April 21, 2005 – 5:10 pm by Yakov Shafranovich in Technology(TO VIEW ALL RELATED POSTS, use the “sprintlbs” category below)
(This is a followup to an earlier post. Please see this followup post as well).
Currently according to SprintPCS documentation, two separate APIs are available for accessing GPS information on cell phones. The first API is the Qualcomm’s Location API which is available on MIDP 2.0 phones only (with exception of Treo 600 and 650). The following MIDP 2.0 phones should have it:
Sanyo MM-5600
Samsung MM-A700
Sanyo MM-7400
Samsung IP-A790
In order for the API to be enabled, you must either enable the developer root on those phones (see previous post) OR digitially sign your midlet with a Verisign-issued digital certificate (and pay $400 for it). I have not seen any sucessful reports for either working but you are more than welcome to try my testing midlet.
The second API - the Spint Mobility Framework is a web service accessiable from anywhere on the Internet and not just a cell phone. It is currently available for testing only with no timeline for production access.
Feel free to email me with questions to blog /at/ shaftek [.] org.
UPDATE: The source posted was out of date, correct source uploaded.
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