RIM finally catches up to the competition with non-GPS-based BlackBerry ‘Locate Service’
It's hardly the first company to implement the technology in a smartphone, but it looks like RIM finally has an answer for folks not satisfied with the GPS capabilities of their BlackBerry. It's now announced the simply-named 'Locate Service' for developers, which relies on cell tower triangulation to to either augment the phone's built-in GPS, or completely replace it when a GPS signal isn't available. According to RIM, the service also includes a set of components that "integrate seamlessly" with the BlackBerry Maps and Contacts applications and, of course, the GPS capabilities of the device
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: BlackBerry, Capabilities, Cell Towers, celltowers, engadget, entry, locate service, maps, phone, result, signal, smartphone, technology, triangulation
Indian mobile carriers scramble as illegal towers are shut down
Apparently the dizzying expansion of mobile coverage in India has proceeded a little quicker than the regulatory process there -- Indian carriers are in a bit of a tizzy after authorities shut down 300 allegedly illegal towers in a suburb of New Delhi called Noida.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: carriers, cell tower, Cell Towers, celltower, illegal-towers, image, india, mobile-carriers, regulatory
Is the function of polling by Blackberry seperately chargeable to the user?
Vatsal asked:
Since the Blackberry, like every cell type of device polls. The polling that takes place is a “keep-alive” type of data packet. The purpose is to let the network know where the phone is located physically on the network at any given time. As a user moves from place to place the cell towers keep a record of those movements so that when you want to make a call or send data of any type you will already be connected and ready go. This is how you get an “always on” connection. Is this function separately charged anywhere in the world?
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Since the Blackberry, like every cell type of device polls. The polling that takes place is a “keep-alive” type of data packet. The purpose is to let the network know where the phone is located physically on the network at any given time. As a user moves from place to place the cell towers keep a record of those movements so that when you want to make a call or send data of any type you will already be connected and ready go. This is how you get an “always on” connection. Is this function separately charged anywhere in the world?
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Categories: BlackBerry Tags: BlackBerry, Cell Towers, polls