GPS via JSR179

[xcea]

FPC Bench says the A1200 has JSR179=1.0. What does this mean regarding GPS ability?

[valkur]

I found this interesting so I did a slight bit of research. Apparently JSR179 is a location API for J2ME. Which means if your carrier supports AGPS (Assisted GPS or tower triangulation) then a java app on your phone can retrieve your coordinates. Thats about all I really found out though...

[Alpha43]

thats really nice.. Now all we need is the app to do it!
~Alpha~

[dahanist]

does this mean that we don't need a GPS unit attached to the phone?

[valkur]

Its possible if there was a java app to use this, of course we would probably have to pay the carrier for the use of the agps information

[admin]

juz means they can find out where your phone is, if the right software is being installed.