You can do so much with modern smartphones in addition to navigation ... Battery life is another point of consideration. For a phone, running GPS-based apps takes a lot of effort.

A California appeals court ruled this week that holding a phone while driving, even while looking at a map to navigate, is ...

That, in a nutshell, is the conceptual foundation of modern GPS. That GPS receiver in your phone or on the dash of your car learns its location, rate of speed, and elevation by measuring the time ...

The first GPS satellite in the modern fleet launched on Feb. 14, 1989. The Air Force had planned to use the space shuttle for this launch in 1986 but was delayed by the Challenger disaster and ...

If you are going to use your phone for GPS in the car, get a mount for it ... you might also want to operate it via voice, which all modern smartphones support. Some bay area communities are ...

Finding your way home should no longer be a problem with all the GPS devices on the market ... to pinpoint locations and directions. Modern units can come with iPod interfacing, 3-D layouts ...

A glance at Table 2 will tell the reader that the modern mobile phone implements a vast number of transmit and receive frequencies, modulation types, and standards. Of particular concern to the GPS ...