{2.0} feature live tracking!!!!

**donky** · 04-14-2008 02:44 PM

The next firmware update 2.0 will have live tracking!!!!

I love the iPhone!!!

**Twisty iphoney** · 04-14-2008 02:56 PM

hey,
from where did you get the information. please give a link to original post.
thanks

***.max*** · 04-14-2008 03:37 PM

Wasn't that already known?
I've seen a screenshot with a blue dot on a map which shows current position.

**mitchellmoxo** · 04-14-2008 03:40 PM

this means the phone would have gps

**adamsweeting** · 04-14-2008 03:51 PM

Still don't know if the phone itself will have GPS built in, or if it will work with a bluetooth GPS receiver.

**donky** · 04-14-2008 04:19 PM

No guys its not talking about the 3G iPhone. Its talking about firmware 2.0, which this new feature will use triangleuation and will move with you.

**jashsayani** · 04-14-2008 04:31 PM

Ya, I have even used the feature on my 2.0 !

**volkspost** · 04-14-2008 04:39 PM

It's kind of an advanced Google Location service started with beta 2.0 (5a225c). i am based in Hamburg, Germany where Skyhook Wireless (Apples partner in using Google Locate via Wi-Fi) did an excellent job. Using my test iphone with beta 2.0 (5a225c) on it here, while you are walking you hit the Google Locate button and get a pulsating circle that turns into a blue dot representing your location. while you are moving the dot moves along on the map with you. Relies completely on Wi-Fi around you and if skyhook has your location already scanned and in it's database.

volkspost

**donky** · 04-14-2008 10:30 PM

that's cool

**thecompkid** · 04-15-2008 02:34 AM

Even though this isn't really rock solid proof, I would say that it is pretty safe to assume that a future iPhone will have GPS. There is really no practicality in live tracking with such bad accuracy, so it really only seems to be a proof of concept, that the maps app is ready for a live feed of location information.