Thursday, 26 April 2007
Blue Sky announce GPS squeezed into a SIM card!
Written by Marc
Thursday, 26 April 2007 13:56
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GPSWith GPS becoming a must have (see this month's poll results on the right of the page for proof of that!) the development of a GPS receiver that squeezes itself into a SIM card is pretty impressive news! That's exactly what BlueSky have developed, seemingly overcoming the potential pitfalls of picking up satellites on a piece of hardware that size sandwiched between circuit boards and a battery.

Impressive stuff eh?


Quote:

It's A-GPS, so much of the processing is done off the SIM, using data sent over SMS or similar, but the technical challenges are still considerable.

BlueSky Positioning CEO Risto Savolainen said: "We are only allowed [by the GSM SIM standard] to draw six milliamps, which was a challenge."


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Last Updated ( Thursday, 26 April 2007 13:57 )




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