I was reading through the manual of the i730 and noticed this part:

GPS
-Location On - always allows the device to inform its locataion
-911 Only - allows the device to inform its location in only case of being pressed "911".

I think this is a features a lot of Verizon phones have including the other windows mobile devices but cannot be used at all?

The new HP MM6500 has usable GPS. I was thinking it would be nice to be allerted when my boss was around

This is the same feature that ALL new cell phones have, and no, there is no user access to the data. When the carriers start providing location based services, you will probably be able to "buy" your location information from them. (note: with AGPS in cell phones, the phone does not know where it is, it just passes the raw satellite data back to the carrier, who uses it along with tower triangulation to pinpoint your location. It only needs one, or at most two satellites visible for this, unlike a consumer GPS that needs at least 4 for an accurate fix and can use as many as 12 simultaneously.

Alan

Really? I wasn't aware that the phone actually fixed satellites itself. What is the contingency if you call 911 from a basement parking garage? Does it then simply resort to triangulation to find you?

Dan

Yes, it falls back to just triangulation. However, since it does not need to see all of the satellites required for a 3d Fix like a consumer GPS, the reports are that even inside many buildings it can see at least one satellite to contribute to the location solution.

Alan