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Originally Posted by PuckSR
Read up on GPS.
GPS needs a powerful Amplifier, GPS signals are extraordinarily weak.
This amplifier requires a lot of power. Especially when you have a small antenna designed to fit into a mobile phone.
It isn't horrible though, long term usage is typically done in a car...so a charger is available.
I don't know that I would use this for a hiking GPS system, but then again this phone wouldn't last very long in that scenario anyway.
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I'm not surprised by these results at all. I know that GPS requires a lot of power. My bluetooth receiver used a regular Nokia cell phone battery, and doing just GPS and bluetooth, it only lasted about 10 hours. I did this test so that myself and others could get a more exact idea about how much power GPS uses instead of just saying "a lot."