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Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Blue Sky Squeezes GPS Onto a SIM

Posted by Pete Paxton in "NEWS" @ 03:00 PM

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/26/gps_sim/

"Just as we were predicting the end of SIM technological development, along comes a technology which really could be a killer application - a complete GPS system embedded inside one. At the SIMposium in Berlin, 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, but the technical challenges are still considerable."

The one thing missing on my Dash (besides 3G) is GPS. While Windows Live Search usually gets me where I need to go, having GPS would be that much better. Well according to The Register, Blue Sky is developing a sim card that will have a GPS receiver, including the antenna, built right into that tiny little card. No word on cost but they expect to have production samples by July. So do you have GPS? Do you use it often? If you don't have it, would you be interested in a GPS sim card for your smartphone?


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