[tiny1055]

I have been messing around with the gps on the Verizon version for the last few days and here is my experience. First, I turned off gps logging.

I have the VGA version of TomTom 7.916.9189 installed and have about a 15 second lag using the internal gps. Pretty useless. I then tried it with my old iBlue bluetooth gps device and it is spot on and runs very smooth. So it is obviously some kind of gps issue with TomTom and not a 3d issue. I do have the At0mAng Enhanced D3D Driver installed but am not sure if that makes a difference. I also saw some posts saying you need the QVGA version to run smooth but the VGA version worked fine for me (with the iBlue gps device).

One annoyance I have with the external gps is that every time the applications connects with the device, I get a prompt asking with gps device to use on the Bluetooth Com Port 2 which is very annoying. It seems like the device sets up all bluetooth serial devices to be slaves on Com Port 2 and the program must prompt so you can select which slave to use. On my XV6700 I was able to setup a new Com Port for the iBlue but I could not do that on this phone.

I then installed iGo 8.3.4.102680 and have about a 1 second delay going about 40mph using the internal gps. Unless you are staring at the gps constantly, you probably wouldn't even notice and the turn by turn directions still work perfectly.

I really love TomTom and have been using it for years on my XV6700 but I will be using iGo on the new phone until the TomTom gps lag is fixed. I guess I could always use TomTom with the external gps but I really wanted to use the internal gps since it is a pain to always keeps that device with me. Also the gps device prompt I get every time I start the app makes me not want to use it.

I found that iGo is not as intuitive as TomTom but I am starting to get used to it and was able to find a cool skin and get text-to-speech working which TomTom doesn't do. I also has some cool graphics and is completely customizable. Maybe I'll get so used to iGo that I won't even care about the TomTom lag. We'll see.