new iphone--tethering/gps/chasing potential?

[J Kinkaid]

Yes, it's an option on some phones, but violates your TOS on an iPhone. I'm not a stock holder but I respect agreements. You signed the agreement so therefore are bound by it. You are stealing the service, so it is no different then stealing video. They have a direct relationship so it belongs in this thread. How can you not see that relationship.

Tethering on an iPhone is a violation of the iPhone data TOS, period. Any circumvention of this violates the TOS and is the same as theft.

Posting those details to ST will most certainly lead to a DMCA take-down notice.

This is the same info you can find on the sites like the Howardforums that are 200X the size of Stormtrack and the post still remain and have so ever since the Iphone came out. The same type of post can also be found on the AT&T forums and they don't remove them. So it seems to me like you are the only one that cares about this issue and I am not sure why since you don't use AT&T. Once again thanks for playing and have a great day

 

[Connor Keef]

FYI John, they ARE releasing a tether plan for iPhone. We just dont know the cost and what limitiations it will hold. Trust me... AT&T employees are doing this and jailbreaking too. Its not just us.

 

[Tony Perkins]

I'm wondering about today's news that the next incarnation of the iphone will allow tethering. Does this mean that the GPS that is available on the iphone will then be available to integrate into a radar program like GR3 on the laptop?

Seeing that other tethering phones have GPS today and we aren't seeing it, this is probably unlikely. But with the iPhone/Mac connection of integrating tightly and being able to customize the data connection/format, it probably shouldn't be ruled out. It would be great if phone's GPS could be transmitted over bluetooth much like today's bluetooth GPS pucks.

I think the best hope for that would come from the Android phones. They aren't locked down the by the manufacturers quite like the others. Tether data over the cable, stream GPS over the bluetooth, and you have one less piece of hardware in your chase vehicle.

 

[Olivier Staiger]

> The new 3G iPhones have an actual GPS. The earlier models did triangulation. All iPhones still do triangulation if it can't get a lock though.

this reminds me, the rare sight I had on my Nokia GPS last summer

latitude North 89.9999 °

and a friend's Nokia showed N 90.0000 °

indeed, even without network up there, the GPS still works. I don't know if that also is the case for iPhone ?

 

[Jim Edds]

Yes, it's an option on some phones, but violates your TOS on an iPhone. I'm not a stock holder but I respect agreements. You signed the agreement so therefore are bound by it. You are stealing the service, so it is no different then stealing video. They have a direct relationship so it belongs in this thread. How can you not see that relationship.

Tethering on an iPhone is a violation of the iPhone data TOS, period. Any circumvention of this violates the TOS and is the same as theft.

Posting those details to ST will most certainly lead to a DMCA take-down notice.

I was in the Apple Corporate store a week ago and I asked the agent if I could tether my Iphone to my laptop. The guy said yes and even told me how to do it. I don't see how it is stealing a service that you are getting anyway - it's just displayed on a bigger screen.

 

[D. Hayes]

My thoughts exactly Jim. I can post here on with my phone as well but it's just a pain in the rear to do. So I tether.