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20070426 Thursday April 26, 2007

Blue Skies ahead for Java ME technology

Blue Sky Positioning launched a new complete GPS location system (with antenna!), that can fit inside a cell phone SIM card.

See:

Now that's darn small!

Here's a quote: 

 Handsets supporting JSR177 
 (enabling Java applications to 
 talk to the SIM), or those 
 using open operating systems 
 such as Windows Mobile and 
 Symbian [feh!], could support 
 the full mapping, location, 
 and  route-planning 
 capabilities already familiar 
 in dedicated GPS devices.
That's quite an engineering feat to squish (technical term) all the electronics down into a space so small, and draw only 6 milliamps! Heck, my watch draws more current!

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