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More and more phones these days have built-in digital cameras. Cute, but IMHO not extremely (albeit somewhat) practical for most of us (this excludes real estate agents, insurance adjusters, and CIA agents). A better built-in feature would be GPS (Global Positioning System). As most of us have phones in our cars, the phone would double as a navigational device.
HAK, Jan 07 2004
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Certainly this has already been done. Let me do a short google search...Indeed. Here is an example.
http://www.kyocera-wireless.com/slider_phone/slider_feature_benefit.htm
Most phones have built-in GPS capability, so that you can be located by the E911 system in an emergency (which, I believe, is what the Kyocera phone has in the link referred to in the previous comment). I haven't seen a user-friendly GPS system with mapping and directional information. However, if it exists now, I'd love to know about it!!
Yes I believe you are right about that particular phone. In any case here is another which claims, "True GPS: can display lat/long and interface with PC"
It is the Motorola i730 and is advertised at <a href = "http://www.cellularchoices.net/nextel.html>http://www.cellularchoices.net/nextel.html