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Elibom — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 17:20:02 -0000

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karl — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 06:32:47 -0000

Geolocation is required in Japan by law on handsets for emergencies services since last year. Then all handsets have GPS. That was one of the reasons why iPhone could not access Japanese market.

Geolocation apps in Japan are very *common* for walking navigation for example.

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David Jaeger — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 03:12:09 -0000

Yippideedoo. And I've had GPS on my phone since... umm 2005?

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Eric Moritz — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:15:09 -0000

What everyone seems to forget when comparing the iphone with another phone like an HTC or an Nseries. There's aren't 6 million people walking around with N95s.

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collector — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:42:29 -0000

Everyone who uses a mobile phone can be easily tracked. Surely it is not as precise as GPS, but close to it.

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collector — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:36:46 -0000

Android phone is not yet available for purchase. Am i missing something?

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collector — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:32:18 -0000

Did you see a phone with GPS support, big touch screen for about $200? I doubt.

Another great product from Apple.

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jrb — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:49:14 -0000

meh. gps. meh.
what will drive more people to iPhone this time round are the things it didn't have before, not just meme upgrades to existing functionality which exists in other older, cheaper phones.

the thing that will win more support for iphone this time round is the active sync, and exchange support, and perhaps we'll finally see some enterprise lovin'

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Lane — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:37:03 -0000

So I can keep track of my girlfriends everymove!? SWEEEEEEEEEET!!!!! =p Apps like loopt will bring a whole new mean to stalker

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squabbydog — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:19:42 -0000

The new iPhone is going to make the sun shine brighter and food taster better. It is going to help me make more money and women are going to flock in my direction simply by seeing me with it. I am going to talk and talk, and talk some more in super duper style. And the best part is that it's only going to cost me $1100 a year with a two year commitment. SWEET!

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Sach — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:04:14 -0000

Should have a video recorder...

http://tinyurl.com/3fhnec

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rainbow — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:37:13 -0000

"Now the Kool-Aid supply has run out.."

LOL thatÂ´s true.

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Manny — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:32:12 -0000

I don't want anybody to be able to track me unless I dial 911. I think that is really why most people are not so willing to be so connected with their phones to GPS. Most people that I talk to are worried about being tracked without their knowledge. I for one get phones where I have control over its traceability. If I dial 911, then fine. But other than that, I want to make it as hard as possible to be found. Not all things can be good. There is always a dark side of trading your privacy for these kind of "cool" phone features.

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n00b — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:09:39 -0000

Hilarious backlash to this article in the comments. Mashable should've published this Monday when all the fanboys were still in a tizzy and willing to applaud anything. Now the Kool-Aid supply has run out, people woke up and saw how disappointing the iPhone 3G announcement really was, and voila -- this is the only positive iPhone article that remains on TechMeme. :D

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techritic — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:41:33 -0000

LOL, ITS A PHONE..
... WITH A GPS!!!11!!1!1oneoneoN!on1oNO!nneleevlen!1

There are a lot more phones with a GPS. And an SDK. And it's called a fucking BlackBerry.

iPhone != revolutionary.

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techritic — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:40:16 -0000

LOL ITS A PHONE..
... WITH A GPS!!!11!!1!1oneoneoN!on1oNO!nneleevlen!1

There are a lot more phones with a GPS. And an SDK. And it's called a fucking BlackBerry.

iPhone != revolutionary.

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Jason — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:36:16 -0000

Don't forget about Brightkite.
Enabling GPS on the iPhone enables a whole new development path for that social networking beauty.

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Richard — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:15:46 -0000

Victor... won't the nature of the A-GPS help in this respect. You may be able to get a fix indoors more easily bacuse of the A-GPS and its ability to use the cell networks to "help" get a fix.

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Terry Heaton — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:15:34 -0000

Parents keeping track of their kids. The government keeping track of you. Advertisers nailing you with (more) unwanted messages.

No thanks. The risk is too great.

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Li Po — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:02:31 -0000

In that sense, a Ferrari is just a car, and Li Po is just a poet.

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Viktor Marohnic — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:34:43 -0000

I don't believe that GPS will be of much use for social networking app.
It doesn't work indoor and outdoor you have to hold your device for some time until it gets synchronized with satellites (~1min). It is annoying.
I think triangulation or wifi works much better.

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Svein — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:32:52 -0000

And if you in the early 19th century had asked about any modern appliances, say the car, most would be negative then too. Somebody did ask about car, and with it being smelly, noisy, using gas and breaking down, people WERE negative.

Even ten years ago nobody would even think about wanting to put their personal details, nevermind personal pictures, up on a website for the whole world to view. Now everyone does it...

In product development it is a well known fact that asking someone for comments on a revolutionary item which does this and that will almost always garner a negative response. Surveys are good for finding improvements to existing and commonly used technology, but completely useless for brand new stuff without an existing everyday product to compare it with.

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Ian Kemmish — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:36:00 -0000

The picture you paint - nested hierarchies of hundreds of icons to tell me how strangers I don't know rated restaurants (presumably on some risible five-start system) in a city I shan't visit again until the US stops fingerprinting visitors - is hardly going to make me buy a piece of kit I don't need..

With CSR's latest generation of chips, it's basically free to add GPS to any Bluetooth phone. Other phone manufacturers will be coming up with their own support, hopefully design to run well on phones rather than on small computers. I'll withhold judgement on which is best until AFTER they appear....

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Jonathan — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:22:37 -0000

I conducted a large user research project for Vodafone in the UK and Italy in which one of the things we were probing for was attitudes to a "friends positioning" system presented (in a mock-up) as an extension to the phone's address book. This showed an indication next to each person that was within a certain range.

The near universal reaction was negative. This was primarily due to privacy concerns, but even when it was explained that they would elect to make their proximity information available, most said they weren't interested. One person described it like this:

"It would be like getting on a train and seeing somebody sitting there staring at you with a huge grin - would you sit down next to them? No. The same is true of this: if I saw one of my friends had made themselves 'available' I would immediately suspect something was up."

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john — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:20:11 -0000

I said the same thing about myspace. I already have email if I want to talk to my friends I'll email them. Why do I want to post a bunch of crap I like to the whole world and have people say "whats up" "hows it going" on my page just send me a GD email if you want.

obvi I was completely wrong