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Demystifying data and GPS on Nokia phones

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Introduction The modern cellular phone is very powerful computer with fantastic capabilities. The technology, from the user point of view, is not that complex. However, the lack of information on implementation specifics prevents lots of wonderful things from being done. For example, Nokia documentation such as (on page 57 of my E-71 manual) " To use a specific positioning method, select Positioning methods " is not helpful. The bewildering number of terms used for the same thing, and the same term to mean totally different things add to the confusion. The Nokia phone has lots of powerful features for data. For example, your laptop computer can have full Internet access by "dialing" out through the phone in your pocket. This is something I have been doing for the past ten years, since CSD days, and that iPhone users still cannot enjoy. Data on the move There are two distinctively different types of data networks the modern Nokia phone such as the E-71 supports