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Originally Posted by neilson
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.
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There are so many holes in your logic/theory, I don't know where to begin... but I'll make it brief.
In case you don't understand, a-GPS (assisted GPS) and e911 are one in the same. As per FCC rules, any phone allowed to work on U.S. airwaves as of today have to have functioning e911.
A-GPS uses the cell tower infrastructure to locate the phone. Every tower has a standalone GPS system on it, this allows every tower to know its own precise location. There are devices on the cellular network called Assistance Servers. These servers do almost ALL the computational work in locating a cell phone, they talk to every tower that has reception of a particular cell phone's signal. The Assistance Server queries the towers for their geo-location and how strong the cell signal is at that tower. That's all the info you need to start doing triangulation, hence a-GPS. Emergency service agencies (ie, 911) have access to those assistance servers, hence why they can locate you. It's up to the carriers if they want to allow the cell phone itself to have the same info and make it available to software applications running on the phone.
A-GPS not stable enough on the Mogul? Do this experiment: call your local police department and tell them you just got a new cell phone, you have no other way to contact emergency services, and you want to verify that e911 is working. They will tell you "no problem, call 911 but immediately tell the operator that this call is a test of e911 functionality." The operator should be able to locate your general position/address at that moment. If it doesn't work then I'm pretty sure all the Moguls would have to be pulled off the market immediately.
I think you're confusing a-GPS with standalone GPS, which has never been proven that the Mogul is capable of.