[truebeliever71]

Originally Posted by johnnymac

All I have to say is that the GPS is useless. I am in New Jersey for business. We went to manhattan tonight and I couldn't get a lock on a satelite in the car the entire 30 miles. I got absolutely nothing in Times Square and all around the city. On the way back, we caught the bus and accidentally got off at the wrong stop. I thought to my self, "no problem, we aren't lost., I have GPS". Well F*** me. I couldn't get a lock for the hour and a alf that I wandered the New Jersey streets looking for my hotel. I even hard reset my device while walking hoping that the GPS would get a lock..... and NOTHING!!!!!!!!!! I couldn't find a single satelite.

And here is the thing that pisses me off the most, when I finally got back to my hotel in Englewood, I placed my phone in the hotel window and I got a lock in about 30 seconds.

So here's the question, "Why could I not get a lock outside with wide open skies for almost 2 hours with a hardreset and multiple softresets. But as soon as I stopped and placed the phone in the window, it got a lock." -A GPS device is absolutely useless if you can't get a lock on it when simply walking around town. I had the phone in my hand and pointing at the sky ....... ARGGHHHH!!!!!!

I'm really going to give up on this device soon. It has been fun trying to get GPS working on it. But I guess, at the end of the day, it's a gimick. You certainly can't rely on it as I just proved this evening.

I don't think GPS works very well at all in NYC with the tall buildings. I cannot get a good lock using my Holux BT GPS, it has me floating all over the city. So I wouldn't expect the phone's GPS to be any better.