iPhone APRS
Steve Dimse, K4HG, the brains behind findu.com, is planning to do a version of APRS for the iPhone. (That might push me over the brink to buy an iPhone myself!)
Here is what Steve posted this morning on the APRSSIG:
Just curious if anyone else will be getting an iPhone at the end of the month.
It seems that Steve Jobs backed off from the closed architecture he initially proposed, and rumors abound that Apple will release an SDK next week at their developer’s conference. I’m an Apple developer, and I will be writing an APRS version to run on the iPhone if it is possible. Whether it is web based or APRS-IS based depends on what the SDK allows. One rumor is that the SDK will be a modification of Mac OS X widget, which does not allow access to ports to connect to the APRS IS stream, in which case a web app will be the only option.
If anyone gets an iPhone and wants to beta test whatever I develop email me privately.
Steve K4HG (steve@dimse.com)
APRS tracking on a cell phone... Would be great for bike races and the like....
