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Originally Posted by Firefishe2
Hey Civic, I know this might be a stretch, but as long as we're brainstorming, here is a suggestion.
The form factor of GPS chipsets is already pretty tiny, but is going to get even smaller. I have heard of a GPS receiver system on a SIM card, so, I wonder if someone might just build one that would use the 8830's SIM slot as a power source, derive a data stream off the GSM SIM data bus, and transmit JSR-179 API data (or NMEA data) to the apps in active memory.
SIM Card GPS Receiver. Hmmmm. ;0)
Best regards,
Firefishe
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That would require the BB OS to fully support the card interaction, which I will say, that it won't. Hell, a BB can't even interact with the new WiFi cards that are really SD or MicroSD cards. Why, because the OS doesn't support it. Yet, check this out.... all the MS OS based phones support this without any issues. Pretty lame, don't you think. Each day I get closer and closer to wanting to move from this BB BS to an MSMobile phone. All my email acxxxxs I use support ActiveSync so that won't be a problem at all. As a matter of fact, with ActiveSync I even get ALL of my Inbox contents (subfolders included) and have full realtime sync back and forth. The BB under BIS doesn't do this, so why should I pay RIM to have BES when even then the email coming in won't even support HTML or RTF like the MSMobile ones support?