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Email response from Jerry Adriano (Sprint's VP of Customer Experience)
Please, excuse the horrible grammar, and spelling of my original email. I wrote it late at night, and reading it back now, I'm pretty embarrassed.
My email (with grammar/spelling errors, ): Quote:
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It's interesting that more specific dates of beginning of December for testing, and January for release of GPS/Rev A are given. Before it was more of beginning /early of 2008, which could mean something like March. I put more stock in it than a response from a customer service peon, since it's from a VP, but we'll let time decide.
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No offense, I think it's cool you got a response from a VP.
However, Early 2008/Q1 2008 could mean January 2008, so it really is the same answer being given. I agree with you too, it could also mean March 2008... but that answer is hardly news. I know I shouldn't say this because I'll open a can of worms... but the only new thing would be the GPS comment about the update, although there are already rumors about it. But I will not believe on GPS until I actually see it and I have decided not to weigh in on GPS arguments anymore since they all end up badly.
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I agree, because of Sprint's track record on promises I'm not accepting anything until I see it, but I think it's good to have as much information as possible going forward. If nothing else this can be used as ammunition for trade ins/returns if a proper update doesn't materialize by the end of January.
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Actually, that email is very helpful (if authentic). He admits that the next ROM will fix the current GPS issues. This is good news, I'll explain:
I've spent 4 days of solid research into hacking the A-GPS capabilities on the Mogul. As I've described in other threads, every modern phone has A-GPS built into it... the only problem is that the carriers don't want the consumer using it without paying a monthly fee. A talented developer by the name of Cristian Streng wrote a Java app called Mobile GMaps, this application uses Java calls to the QJAE GPS API (Qualcomm) on most Sprint phones to access the internal A-GPS system and use the coordinates from the system to display your location on a mapping source of your choice (it works with Yahoo, MSN, etc. maps). I've loaded this software on my wife's LG Fusic (after hacking/unlocking the developer's root certificate) and it's freakin awesome. She basically now has free GPS capabilities without needing an external device or clear sight of the overhead satellites. When Sprint caught wind of this they made veiled threats at Cristian (google Mobile GMAPS and Sprint and you'll see), obviously because they no longer had the stranglehold on the user's wallet. Ok... so what does this have to do with the Mogul? Well, when I tried to load the app onto the Mogul, there is a problem accessing the QJAE GPS API, I get error messages saying access to the API is denied. One of two things are going on here: 1. I've read on some developer's forums that Sprint locked down the API on WM phones really tight, requiring developers to pay a licensing fee to get an application cert that will unlock it. or 2. They simply left the API/driver out. I suspect this is the reason since I don't believe you can get TeleNav or other related LBS (location based services) on the Mogul at the moment. It kind of sounds like this next ROM will either unlock the API or finally include it. What would really be awesome is if I can get some savvy Touch user to try mGMAPS to see if maybe Sprint included the unlocked API on that ROM. If it works then more than likely we could build a ROM for the Mogul that would unlock A-GPS for the end-user. |
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Then run the Esmertec Jbed app, use it to install the mGMAPS .JAR file. Then try launching the mGMAPS app from the Esmertec Jbed. Thanks for trying this. |
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