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Originally Posted by shadowmite
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.
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Trust me, I agree with this 110% and I was in the "No GPS on Sprint WM devices" committee for a
long time, dispelling hopes and dreams of many new device owners
But I think Sprint gave up on the "lets find a revenue stream for GPS" on their WM devices as they were getting blitzed by AT&T and others.
I think there is strong evidence that the Mogul, Touch and Q9c all do GPS (or rather,
potentially can). I know the Q9c does satellite GPS--I've used it myself and it works with other programs. And all the Touch specs mention "internal GPS antenna" which I have not seen before mentioned.
It'll be interesting to see what you find...
If true, it raises other questions, like why the hell did they ship it not enabled, on two devices?
ps welcome back to CDMA, I remember you switched to the iPhone for a bit. I
think CDMA will get interesting in 2008.