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GPS (sorta) on iPhone

Wednesday September 19, 2007 10:59 am PDT by Arnold Kim
Gizmodo points out a new 3rd party application that has appeared on Installer.app.



Navizon uses cell phone towers to pinpoint your location (within a few hundred yards) and is able to push those coordinates to the Google Maps application.

The result? Free GPS(ish) functionality on the iPhone.
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aerospace
Posted: 61 months ago
i hope they get it working well, that would be awesome :)
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JC4
Posted: 61 months ago
I like it! Beats the hell out of typing in the current location.

JohnC
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Dagless
Posted: 61 months ago
I don't have an iPhone, but whoa :eek:
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lampcov
Posted: 61 months ago
Sitting in my house, looks like the massive cell tower outside my window isn't "Known" yet since it can't locate me....bummer.
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chr1s60
Posted: 61 months ago
This is awesome. It is apps like this that are going to make me end up hacking my phone. I hope Apple sees that this is a possibility and creates something like this.
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dr_lha
Posted: 61 months ago
I just installed this, but all I get when running it is the message: "Your location could not be identified. No known Cells or WiFi nodes in range".

I'm in a fairly highly populated suburb of LA right now, so nowhere obscure. I guess their coverage isn't 100%
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mikeinternet
Posted: 61 months ago
I installed Navizon this morning. I registered (quick and easy).

But, haven't been able to get it to work. I keep getting "Unable to Locate - Your location could not be identified. No known Cells or WiFi nodes in range."

I was on WiFi and had good service. I get lost a lot, I could really use this.

Edit : (Guess I'm not the only one.)
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poppe
Posted: 61 months ago
Can't locate me... damn it... I am using WiFi and Cell...
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JRBTempe
Posted: 61 months ago
I got this thing working as soon as I read the post on Gizmodo a few hours ago, but when I hit "Locate" it thinks I'm in North Hollywood, California! Strangely, it would have been accurate a year and a half ago when I actually lived there... no idea how it found that location instead of Uniontown, Ohio where I actually am right now! :eek:
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squirrellydw
Posted: 61 months ago
Just release a dam GPS app already. Team up with Garmin or TOMTOM, this is the only thing stopping me from getting an iPhone
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