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Many people seem to be mistaken about what this thread was originally arguing the existance of. There is zero doubt the phone is capable of aGPS, I personally have seen coordinate fix's on my own 6800 via the e911 system, that's a given.
The question is whether it truly has a antenna inside it capable of picking up anything besides the background noise level for the frequencies GPS satellites use to transmit their beacons. I have seen your fcc posted pic, too bad that is not what the 6800's main board has. What we do have is not tuned for 1.575ghz unless I've missed something.
When sprint says a device has GPS, they aren't promoting a feature or promising anything, it's simple a marketing person's "scheme" to convince customers that this is a device for them. If the phone has nothing more than aGPS they can still call it GPS and technically be accurate enough. They've done it many times and will continue to do it so long as they make more money doing so.
If the device has the standalone antenna and RC matching pair afterall, it would simply be missing 2 more parts. The rom would need GPS support drivers and a kernel knowing about them; and the radio would need to be flashed to one enabling the radio's gps commands. The radio does not match the ID naming scheme HTC has used on every other standalone GPS device they have released. Granted, that proves nothing.
I hope I'm wrong, I'd love to have gps on this phone since I'm now back on cdma. I just don't think it's likely however.
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