[LINK] Midnight rush to buy iPhones

[Kim Davies]

Quoting Ivan Trundle on Friday July 11, 2008:
| 
| Having said that, the Treo maps are possibly more useful, but I can't  
| tell since I've yet to see a new iPhone. I've also heard that trying  
| to use GPS in cars with an iPhone is tricky - then there is the video  
| that I've seen of a NZ purchaser of an iPhone which shows the user to  
| be in Texas..

It might not be the GPS, it may be the faux-GPS that came standard with
the original iPhone, and I believe is a fall-back in the iPhone 3G. It
triangulates based upon observable WiFi access points and cell-phone
towers against a database which is amazingly accurate -- but not 100%.

When it works it looks something like this:
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/kjd/2632166998/

kim