GPS Tracking with Cellular SMS Messaging

[dninja at gmail.com (Robin Wood)]

2009/4/1 Jim Halfpenny <jim.halfpenny at gmail.com>:
> 2009/4/1 Robin Wood <dninja at gmail.com>
> > 2009/4/1 Scott Webster <websterstech at gmail.com>:
> > > This is amazing:
> > >
> > > http://www.mightygps.com/smsgps.htm
> >
> > The price is a rip off, I'm working with these for a client and you
> > can pick the devices up wholesale for about $70. The gps in them is ok
> > but all the ones we've tried haven't been as accurate as the gps in my
> > G1 phone. It is to do with the size of the antenna which has to be
> > small due to the small form factor.
> >
> > Robin
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> I'm guessing this would stop working the? second UPS drop your parcel into
> the van. Even half decent handheld GPS units can have trouble indoors.
Some of the ones I've tested work when sat in the window, others have
had to be in the middle of a playing field for quite a while before
they get a lock.

Robin