Free-hotspot.com. Urban Sleuth. Nokia Morph Concept (long) Dokodare: Places, People, Me. SKYHOOK Wireless: How It Works > Overview. Wi-Fi positioning performs best where GPS is weakest, in urban areas and indoors. Click here for details on Wi-Fi data collection methodology and coverage. GPS provides highly accurate location results in "open sky" environments, like rural areas and on highways. But in urban areas and indoors, tall buildings and ceilings block GPS' view of satellites, resulting in serious performance deficiencies in time to first fix, accuracy and availability. GPS or A-GPS alone cannot provide fast and accurate location results in all environments. Cell tower triangulation provides generalized location results with only 200 - 1000 meter accuracy. iSuppli: Smartphone sales could grow 11% in 2009 - Apple 2.0.
There's good and slightly less good news for Apple (AAPL) in a report issued by iSuppli on Wednesday. Against a backdrop of slowing sales growth in the overall mobile handset market, the El Segundo, Calif. -based research firm sees a bright spot in smartphones. The report offers two scenarios for 2009 and beyond. Its best-case forecast calls for global smartphone unit shipments of 192.3 million units in 2009, up 11.1% from 173.6 million in 2008. Its more pessimistic outlook calls for growth of only 6% this year, or 183.9 million units. "For the optimistic scenario to come to fruition, wireless network operators must cut fees for data services and offer aggressive subsidies to reduce consumer smart phone prices," said Tina Teng, an iSuppli senior analyst.
"Furthermore, wireless operators and handset brands have to sell consumers on the value of smart phones to encourage customers to upgrade. " And what determines which brands do best? "Applications are everything," according to iSuppli. Smartphone growth significant, but risks remain. Screen and Device Size Matters in Smartphones. Size matters, according to Wireless Week. Market researcher Gartner estimates smartphone sales grew 50% last year, to 72.9 million units, and forecasts there will be 450 million smartphones shipped globally by 2010 with Instant Messaging the de facto tool for Voice, Video and Text chat by the end of 2011.
Another study, by Berg Insight, predicts 113 million smartphones will be sold this year, reaching 365 million in 2012. Smartphones will account for 22% of all handsets sold globally in 2012, more than twice their current market share. Usability experts from Perceptive Science evaluated four smartphones for ease of navigation, look and feel, usability and ergonomics. Screen size matters, says Thomas Thornton, a senior research scientist at Perceptive Sciences, because as the screen size increases, so does the space to display content. The best-rated from a usability standpoint was the Palm Treo 700wx, which runs Windows Mobile 5 on the Verizon Wireless and Sprint networks. GSM Helpdesk Nederland :: Helpdesk :: Plaatsbepaling via GSM. Lang is het onduidelijk gebleven en hebben operators de mogelijkheden verzwegen maar toch is het mogelijk: Plaatsbepaling via GSM. Uit eigen onderzoek en vele bronnen op het internet heb ik deze pagina samengesteld.
Op deze pagina ga ik uitleggen hoe plaatsbepaling via GSM in zijn werk gaat en op welke manier bijvoorbeeld de politie gebruik maakt van deze technieken. Voordat u deze pagina leest, is het verstandig de pagina over het GSM netwerk te lezen, dit omdat ik op deze pagina gebruik maak van "vaktaal" die op de netwerkpagina aan bod komt. U kunt meer met uw telefoon dan dat u misschien denkt. Plaatsbepaling is misschien het laatste waar u aan heeft gedacht, en om eerlijk te zijn is dat ook zeker niet voor een "leek" zomaar even te realiseren. Zelfs voor een GSM freak is het moeilijk om plaats te bepalen met een GSM, maar niets is onmogelijk. In combinatie met een netmonitor kunt u vrij nauwkeurig uw plaats bepalen.
Bovenstaande kaart is van de wijk "Reeshof" in Tilburg. iPhone - Features - App Store. Mobile Web Design | Mobile Website Showcase | Mobile Phone Blog | Mobile Website Gallery. Mobile Firefox Mockups. We’ve known for a little while that Mozilla had plans to design a mobile browser, and now we are getting some insight as to where they are headed with it.
As it turns out they are actually designing two different mobile versions, one for touch screen devices (iPhone-style) and another for smaller screens (like cellphones). From what I’ve seen they both look really nice, and with Mozilla’s existing fanbase I’m sure the browser would get adopted rather quickly. The one designed for smaller screens doesn’t really introduce anything that we haven’t already seen, and for that reason I wanted to really point out the one designed for touch screen devices.
It, well, appears to have borrowed a lot of design ideas from Apple’s Safari browser on the iPhone: (Click to Enlarge) I guess Apple should look at this as quite a compliment since the Mobile Firefox will be inheriting many of the design considerations put in place by Apple. [via Mozilla Links] Blackberry and GPS - 2009 Edition | BlackBerryInsight. Technology: Cell Phones That Never Need To Be Charged? 06 December 2008 Sound Wave-powered Devices Possible Cell Phones That Never Need To Be Charged?
Researchers have developed a new technique for powering mobile devices without the need for bulky energy sources such as batteries. Imagine a self-powering smartphone that actually never needs to be charged because it converts sound waves produced by the user and surrounding into the energy it needs to keep running?! This is a major step toward a portable, adaptable and cost-effective technology for powering mobile devices and it's not as far-fetched as it may seem thanks to the recent work of Tahir Cagin, a professor in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University.
Utilizing materials known in scientific circles as "piezoelectrics," Cagin, whose research focuses on nanotechnology, has made a significant discovery in the area of power harvesting – a field that aims to develop self-powered devices that do not require replaceable power supplies, such as batteries. CBS Offers Midtown Manhattan Free Wireless Internet Access at NetStumbler.com. Free Portable USB Flash Pen Drive Applications | Pendriveapps.com.