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Has anyone researched how to access the gps chipset on a blackberry over usb so that it is unnecessary to transmit this data over the cell carrier's data network?

Is it possible to access the GPS chipset, store information in a buffer, and open an interface connection (over the usb charging port), for access? Not sure if J2ME allows for this...

Maksym Gontar
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Checkout the "UsbDemo" project and the "GPSDemo" that are included in the blackberry JDE.

the GPSDemo listens to the GPS and stores the location information into a buffer that gets sent over the network.

The USB Demo shows how to interact with a desktop client over USB.

You should be able to pull on the network code from the GPS Demo and put in the the code to talk over USB.

TonyB
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