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Old 06-09-2005, 08:41 PM
foebea
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Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 241

This seems very fantasical to me.
To me it sounds like: "The home phone can oly go as far as the cord, but now when you are away from home you can get a signal at least as clear as your home phone by using this tire pressure gauge!"

How does this work?

"between tall buildings, within "urban canyons"
So when driving through a metro area, and you lose gps signal for a while, you continue to get it throuh wifi? how fast can your device connect to an available source? also there are many locations where wifi is not available. I know of very few parking garages suitibly equipted.

"within office buildings, warehouses, campus interiors, clubs, restaurants, museums, galleries, conference facilities"
I do not see how this would work. even assuming blanket coverage of wifi, without additional hardware how can it possibly determine your location? The faq on the site says this starts to work within one or two days of use, and that the wifi alone would be able to give your location even if gps dropped out of service completely.

"newly discovered venues"
I don't even understand what this means :lol:


Can anyone clear this up for me?
 
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