Who Wants a Free GPS for Their Shadow?
You heard right, Free as in Beer. We’ve talked about it in the past but now is as good a time as any to rehash the concept. Many of you are aware of Google Maps’ ability to triangulate your location using Cell Tower information. Many times this accuracy ranges from 500 meters to 5000 meters. Most of the time this is unacceptable. Additionally there is no way to share this information with other location based programs. Most of our readership lives in cities and have some sort of access to the internet be it through a data plan or wifi access. This is an important part of how this free GPS works so keep reading for the details. The ‘07 Shadow and the ‘09 UMA Shadow both lack a proper GPS. While one can use a Bluetooth GPS with them, it can be tedious to do so. I know many were disappointed that the UMA Shadow was released without 3G and GPS but we do have a viable solution. The UMA Shadow does sport the ability for better calling in the concrete jungle using the wifi to place UMA calls
