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Originally Posted by shadowmite
Confirmed, thanks for getting the shot of those chips... It is, sorry to say, a wifi antenna... The 6800 is not capable of standalone GPS... This is quite upsetting as this is based on a phone which is supposed to have it. I'm sorry for getting everyone's hopes up...
Murph24, you're the man, thanks for doing this for everyone!
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Good grief.
So here's the deal folks: Shadowmite was wrong. Very wrong.
(This is what we get for putting too much faith in 1 person).
All we had to do was look at the
FCC internal photos (warning: large PDF) of the Mogul/6800 as they show as clear as day the internal GPS antenna.
Going further, the
HTC Touch on Sprint also lists an internal GPS antenna, which means this:
- Mogul and Touch both have an internal GPS antenna
- This antenna is required for aGPS/GPS
- Previous Sprint WM devices did *not* have these antennas (for whatever reason)
- Sprint/HTC need to "enable" this feature via firmware i.e. currently it is "locked down" either on purpose, lack of an API or both.
How did we all miss this?
