Stubby wrote On 12/09/05 14:00,:
Scott Moore wrote:

I thought for all of the GPS threads.

Next year, 2006, the government mandate for GPS inclusion in cell phones
starts. That means that eventually every cheap cell phone is going to have
a GPS.

GPS receivers are plentyfull now, but are getting set to proliferate into
a commondity part. The time is coming when instead of worrying about tying the
multiple GPS using instruments you have in your airplane, they all have their
own, and you have 3, 4 or more redundant GPS recievers in your airplane.


I believe the phone makers were trying to substitute a cell-tower
triangularization scheme so they didn't have to have a GPS in each
phone. I never heard what the outcome was, however. Note a GPS
chip-set is only $0.25 in 100,000 lots!

They lost.