GPS Functionality for iPhone Becomes a Reality

Written by Kenson on December 15th, 2007
Filed under Apple, Wireless Industry News, iPhone

PartFoundry has successfully developed an iPhone GPS module that allows jail broken iPhones to get GPS functionality. According to the PartFoundry spokesmen, the software of the GPS module is open source and community based. The iPhone GPS module will be shipping in February of 2008.

Channels:	16
Update Rate:	1 sample / second
Acquisition Time:	Hot: 4 Seconds, Cold: 45 seconds, Indoor: A long time
Serial Output:	1 Serial, 1 USB
Position Accuracy :	2.5m
Protocol Support:	NMEA 0183 ver 2.3
iPhone Software:	Requires Jail Broken Phone (tested on firmware version 1.1.2). Software will be open source/community based