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Actually, I think you're misunderstanding what they're saying. A-GPS is the same as gpsOne, just different technologies (A-GPS is used on UMTS and gpsOne on CDMA2000). A-GPS is more of a catch-all term, so it can be used for gpsOne as well however.
They pretty clearly conclude at the end of the thread that the device has A-GPS functionality, and that is network dependent.
The only info missing from that thread is that Windows Mobile has no way to interact with the gpsOne chip... it can only listen to, and respond to, network requests for location. The network asks for gpsOne to turn on, it sends the location out, it shuts off. Tracking and other functionality requires an API... Windows Mobile doesn't have that. So, the gpsOne sits relatively useless.
But, I know I'm right... I was briefed on gpsOne back when the first 1xRTT phones had it installed on. PhoneNews.com broke the news on the first Sprint and Verizon LBS apps. This is nothing new, and nothing mysterious.
In fact, I warned Sprint that people would be complaining like this... they sat on it, and now people come up with yet another Blame Sprint First problem... they should have lit a fire under Microsoft to have made an LBS API... Sun did for J2ME, which is why all those Sprint and Nextel phones play with GPS so well (even on CDMA with gpsOne).
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