They mean GPS on a cell phone. You have more coverage for all phones than you have phones with GPS built in, so it makes more sense to use tower triangulation (which still places you withing several hundred yards of accuracy, which is fine for looking for the nearest pizza place, gas stations, etc) than to leverage GPS which few phones have.
That said you can already download Live Mobile for both WM5/6 or a Java version for other O/S's and use it now without the triangulation and voice recognition. I love the app, you have to just manually zoom to where you are, then do a "search nearby" from that map spot. Likewise you get traffic in most major cities on it, sat imagery or road view, driving directions (which also can be set for fastest route that takes traffic/construction/sports events into account) and one touch calling for businesses that your searches yeild. Been around longer than the iPhone too, for some reason there is never marketing around good MS products that are not Halo franchise.
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They mean GPS on a cell phone. You have more coverage for all phones than you have phones with GPS built in, so it makes more sense to use tower triangulation (which still places you withing several hundred yards of accuracy, which is fine for looking for the nearest pizza place, gas stations, etc) than to leverage GPS which few phones have.
That said you can already download Live Mobile for both WM5/6 or a Java version for other O/S's and use it now without the triangulation and voice recognition. I love the app, you have to just manually zoom to where you are, then do a "search nearby" from that map spot. Likewise you get traffic in most major cities on it, sat imagery or road view, driving directions (which also can be set for fastest route that takes traffic/construction/sports events into account) and one touch calling for businesses that your searches yeild. Been around longer than the iPhone too, for some reason there is never marketing around good MS products that are not Halo franchise.