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Old 11-09-2007, 10:45 PM
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Originally Posted by neilson View Post
Let's step back and think about it.

WM6 is new, and we tend to forget that the Mogul was the 1st WM6 Pro(Pocket PC) Phone that is CDMA and has aGPS. No other carrier has the aGPS activated yet on their WM6 Pro(Pocket PC) CDMA devices because the interactions between the aGPS and software are not stable enough. We whine about the Bluetooth issue legitly, but just think how much you would whine if the aGPS were activated for personal(as in non-e911) usage like Sprint Navigator/Telenav and had serious conflict issues with other parts of the phone?

Well, think of it this way as well. It does Sprint no good to not have aGPS activated on a phone that they no doubt would make a good bit of money off of from Sprint Navigator usage. It's just the OS/Hardware conflict issues that WM6 seems to have with the CDMA infrastructure and specifically the Qualcomm CPU in the Mogul. HTC and Sprint are working to fix the conflict issues that WM6 seems to have with aGPS, Rev. A, and Bluetooth and I have confidence that these will be taken care of.

Bottom Line: Blame Microsoft for not making it so that WM6 plays nice with advanced features on phones out of the gate. Sprint and HTC and Qualcomm dislike it every bit as we all do. Makes me think of Vista for some reason......
sigh, OS/Hardware conflict issues? Can you please point me to which ones have to do with CE and how this has anything to do with aGPS?

Here is the bottom line:
Qualcomm releases chip which supposedly has full acceleration support for CE and all drivers written. We get these from HTC/Sprint. Microsoft has really nothing to do with these drivers. CDMA isn't "really" implemented by Microsoft at all, the implementation on the chip is by Qualcomm, and the drivers that control the hardware are by HTC/Qualcomm/Sprint.

If you want to see working aGPS, look at the tilt. It's clearly not an instability limitation, its a matter of accessing the data. And to tell you the truth, it's not like aGPS data is very complicated at all, its just a few strings that give you location encapuslated in a serial format.

Sprint and HTC have EVERYTHING TO DO with the mogul not having aGPS unlocked, and it's most likely Sprint that is responsible for it.