GPS on mobile phones has been round since AGPS was launched and has generally been available from at least 2003.
AGPS is a cut-down version of GPS designed for low-power devices and is used on mobile phones.
Since I get a bit of extra information about phones by examining their internals, it appears that GPS could get in to LG mobiles in the future. The LG U880 was one of the first phones that I could find many references to GPS hardware and software within the phone and on developer sheets for the chips used in the U880.
I have also discovered that the
java access to GPS is in a partially complete state. The access appears to be there complete with a permissions structure, yet when you give yourself permission and try to access the GPS unit, the mobile simply resets.
What is important is that normally, if a mobile does not support a feature like GPS, bluetooth, etc, the application trying to use it will quit before it starts running. My applications always crashed only when they tried to access GPS information. This implies the support is there, just not active or complete.
So are LG planning on getting GPS support on their mobiles?
If your phone had GPS support right now, what would be the killer application for you?