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Originally Posted by TC1
mGMAPS is not in beta and has been around for a while now. The author of this program was the first one to tap into the aGPS functionality on many phones and use it with Google, which subsequently made him cease from referencing them. Sprint also threatened a lawsuit against him too because he was enabling LBS services on their phones that they wanted to charge for. He has never been able to get the program to work with Sprint WM phones because the API is simply not there or locked down in such a manner that can not be accessed. The Q1 2008 ROM will finally provide that API.
Read this news article and subsequent forum messages below it, hopegully it'll shed some light on what I'm talking about :
http://www.phonenews.com/content/view/2086/9/
We can go around and around on this, you're going to believe what you want and I guess I'm going to believe what I want. |
A square may be a type of rectangle, but that doesn't mean that all rectangles are squares.
aGPS may use triangulation (once again tri-lateration is the correct term here) but that doesn't mean all systems that use triangulation are the same as aGPS. If Google's My Location function was using full fledged aGPS then it's location accuracy would be much better than within 500-5000meters.
http://gigaom.com/2007/11/28/google-my-location/ Even the worst estimates of aGPS accuracy are around 100-300meters. Within optimal conditions 10-30 meters can be achieved. See these links for references:
http://www.nemerix.com/CN/technology/about_agps.htm
http://www.nemerix.com/CN/technology/about_agps.htm
I don't know why you keep bringing up mGMAPS. While the software has the same functionality goal, that doesn't mean the methods used are anywhere near the same. The topic of the thread is Google's new beta function "My Location".
As for your quote from the Bell Mobility, it only proves my point. It is an
aGPS chipset, that first uses GPS technology to locate itself, and then falls back onto network technologies. Therefore aGPS is not
JUST triangulation.