[pjsockett]

Doing a little testing myself I found no difference what so ever. I was using HTC GPS Tool, Windows Live Search, and Tom Tom. I would get locks with Tom Tom but it would take 3-5 minutes.

As soon as I installed and tried google maps I started getting cold locks at 10-20 seconds. If I use google maps to prime from a cold start everything else locks. Gps Tool was getting locks under 2 sec.

I may be mistaken but it sounds like Google maps will triangulate your position through the cell towers which seems help the gps as well. Just my experience.

If you haven't tried Google maps its a must