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In mobile phone tracking, why is it not possible to triangulate between cell antenna?

Jan 14, 2009 by Blueflash | Posted in Cell Phones & Plans

Assumed that signal strength is measured, is it not possible to measure signal strength to a million of cell antenna and triangulate position based on that? If not, why not?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phon e_tracking

the common sense is because the cell phone can only physically communicate with one cell site at a time.

to do a triangulation, you would extremity the phone to send its position to three different cell sites, and then calculate its status based on that.

doing this would require the phone to know how to disconnect itself from a cell position that it has full service from. that is kind of counter-intuitive for a cellphone.

the guy who answered after me is a little disturbed abotu what the original iphone does...it uses location based services to tick off you where you are NEAR. It does ti by connecting to the ONE cell site you are connected to, and then estimating where you are at, significant you have to be witihin a certain distance from that tower. It shows a dot where the cell site is at, and then a echoing around it showing where you might be. Its similar to triangulation, but not nearly as accurate.

If there are thousands of chinese characters, how do they text on mobile phones?

Aug 23, 2008 by danishdane9 | Posted in Olympics

If there are thousands of chinese characters, how do these subject-matter eachother on mobile phones?

(According to wiki, an educated chinaman would know 7000-8000, and there are about 40 000 in unqualified.)

Every Chinese consultation can be represented with letters, called pinyin. Then all words with this pinyin pop up, with the most common words first, followed by less normal ones. The more you use certain words, the further up on the list it appears. Also, usually combinations of words are acclimatized in Chinese to give it more detailed meaning, and if you write the pinyin of both these words together, you usually only get one d, which is the one you want.

So for instance, if I want to write 姚明, I would first write yao, then find 姚, then make out ming, and find 明. Then I would have 姚明 (Yao Ming).

But if I want to write 中国 (Zhong Guo), I could neutral write zhongguo and it would give me 中国 as the first result. Then I would have 中国 (China).

It's really not that much of a hassle compared to English words since each oddball requires possibly hitting a key multiple times, and Chinese words are very pithy on average, the most frequent words having 5-6 characters at most.

Is it free or not to call a mobile from skype?

Mar 13, 2009 by Joe W | Posted in Software

I decent called my own mobile from skype ad it worked but on the skype website and the wiki it seems to imply i should be paying to call landlines and mobile phones, from wiki,

Calls to other users of the work and to free-of-charge numbers are free, while calls to other landlines and mobile phones can be made for a fee.

so which is it??

no its not otherwise we all would be doing it

pathetic

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