How I made 10000 Navizon points in 45 minutes
Today I decided to break the world record of the number of Navizon points earned in an hour.
So I took two Windows Smartphones (Qtek 8300) and equipped them with a prepaid sim card, one from T-Mobile one from Cingular. The cool thing with those Windows Smartphones is that they map ten times more cell towers than Pocket PCs, which certainly helped me break this record. I then paired them with my GPS device (using the Physical output port in Navizon and the Bluetooth incoming port). I added my Verizon XV6700 to the mix. So I had something looking like:
GPS -> T-Mobile smartphone -> Cingular smartphone -> Verizon XV6700
On my way back from the airport, where I was coming back from a little Labor Day get-away, I took a cab home. When I got there I looked at the screens, added the points earned by each one of the three phones and... Bingo!!! 10,254 points (which translates in $19.99 with Navizon's new reward system). Hehe... that almost paid for my cab ride :-)
I'd be interested in knowing what your point system is based on?
Is it based on the number of physical devices recorded, such as cell towers, wifi APs etc OR is it based on number of GPS coordinates recorded with active phyiscal devices?
If its based on physical devices recorded, then I'd find it hard to believe one could record 10,000 devices in a $200 cab ride.
Posted by: Scruge | October 10, 2006 at 08:46 AM
2 points for a wifi router
10 points for a cellphone tower ID.
It's not based on the number of GPS coordinates received.
He used sim cards from two providers, and he used 3 devices to collect points, and therefore collected more points than an "ordinary user" would do.
Posted by: Bredita | October 30, 2006 at 02:24 AM
Why do Smartphones map more then 10 times as much cell towers as pocket pc's? The no. of cell towers remain the same, don't they?
Posted by: Mause | November 10, 2006 at 10:53 AM
Can you tell me, how you got your 3 devices connected to one gps-mouse?
Posted by: Thomas | March 19, 2007 at 06:43 PM