Phone enhancements

[Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa]

Hi!

On 1/29/07, Graham Auld <openmoko at graham.auld.me.uk> wrote:
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:community-bounces at lists.openmoko.org] On Behalf Of Bryce Leo
> Sent: 29 January 2007 14:31
> To: community at lists.openmoko.org
> Subject: Re: Phone enhancements
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> >  You'd have to be doing some serious zigzagging: resolution of GPS at
> > street level is about 50 meters...
>
> Exactly the point!! if you're zig zaggin that much you definately need to
> have the cops get called!
>
> But on a serious note, how could it be 50 meters? That's about 165 feet...
> in certain cases about 3 different roads... Most of the Garmin products are
> at 1m/3feet resolution. I'm sure that most consumer devices are within about
> 2m/6ft. Do you have numbers that I don't in this case?
>
> Bryce Leo
>
> I'd have to agree on this one, I use GPS systems in several areas and
> generally see resolutions between 2 and 10 meters on average with 5-6 sats
> in use.
>
> Granted to detect zig zags you'd need to be quite careful with how you used
> the data, telling the difference between weaving and dodging pot holes...
>
> Maybe I should light the touch paper and suggest this be a use for the
> famous accelerometer that's been mentioned so much ;-)

Yes, the accelerometer :) .  And, now that we are at it, why we just
don't add: pressure sensor (atmosferic), temperature sensor, relative
humidity.... It would just be under US$50 all of these.... well, plus
about 2-3 hours programmer time (more or less, depending on the
skill), and about 2 hours of the electronic engenieer (to implant the
thing into the device's design).

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> Graham
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