a little OT, but.....

[+slinger91]

I just got a new Nokia cell phone. While thumbing through the manual, it said my phone had a GPS antenna. It said this was only used to give your location, when an emergency call was placed. This kinda confuses me because i was under the assumption that GPS antenna's only recieved the signal, not transmit. Does anyone have more info on it?

[Couch_Potato]

My new LG phone has the same thing. What I understand is the gps antenna only recieves signals and location is transmitted over the standard cellular network.

 

I have 2 options 'location on' and 'E911 only'. In the 'location on' mode the phone will tell the cellular network the coordinates of the phone when the network requests a Location Determination (LD). 'E911 mode' only transmits the location when E911 system request a LD from the phone. I have no idea how the distinction is made between the network LD and the E911 LD.

 

One annoying thing is that I can't turn it completely off. The GPS LD feature is on all the time in one mode or the other. I don't necessarily want my location being broadcast to anybody who sends the right request to my phone. But I suppose it's good to have since 911 centers are actually using lat and lon coordinates now.

 

I'm not lost!

I just don't know where I am.

[+slinger91]

thanks for the info Couch_Potato. Too bad we couldn't use the feature ourselfs to broadcast our lat and lon to other cell phone users. It would be like owning a garmin rino.