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Old 01-10-2010, 07:57 PM
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Re: Need help

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Originally Posted by sawman5 View Post
I thought it had a built in GPS, so as long as you have something like TOMTOM or Garmin, it would work.....

Ok I did a little research and I am half right in my answer. It depends on the application you are using for GPS. Google maps and some GPS software will require the internet to work.

I have never personally tries any TOM TOM nav software, just sprint NAV and google maps and I know they require the data connection.

The GPS chip does not need data connections to retrieve coordinates but will need send coordinates to software for display on a map. So if you have the full TOMTOM nav (I think 1+ gig in size) installed you probably will not need any data connection.

Does anyone else have any other knowledge on how this works?
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