GPS-free cell phone?

Jerry Feldman gaf at blu.org
Thu Oct 18 11:12:11 EDT 2001


I think you would have to check the specific cell phone both for date of 
manufacture and possibly the seller. I suspect that most of the retailers 
will try to sell their stock of the older phones until they are forced by law 
to sell only the GPS enabled phones. 
On 18 Oct 2001, at 10:46, Robert Brown wrote:

> I currently do not own a cell phone, but, after attending Lar Kaufman's talk
> last night, I'm now worried that the only available cell phones will have
> GPS installed.  If I were to buy a cell phone today, would it have GPS
> installed in it?  And, if so, how could I tell if it's the "privacy
> invasive" GPS kind or not?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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