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Originally Posted by stemo76
Verizon must have AGPS technology since many of their phones have VZ NAV available. Are you saying that the only way for the PPC phones to take advantage of this is for verizon to build this into the OS. From talking with Verizon it doesn't look like they are going to be offering the use of the GPS chip in the phones. They are currently working on the VZ NAV for the PPC OS so they are going to want to charge you instead of letting you use TomTom or MS/GOOGLE options. Seems silly since you can bypass this with a $50.00 bluetooth device.
I guess they recently completed this for the BB users so PPC is the last frontier. For now I will use the internal when it works and keep the holux in the car for the times the phone is being finicky.
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It is unlikely that verizon will ever release a GPS enabled update for the device since they have to pay HTC licensing fees (who in turn pays qualcomm licensing fees for access to that part of the chip) to unlock the GPS of the phone. Even alltel who has released a 3.xx series rom/radio did not technically enable GPS in their release. With the diamond/pro right around the corner you guys are pretty much SOL for GPS imo (especially since verizon has never released ANY updates for the device
afaik). It would be silly for them to pay to unlock the GPS in the device with this device about to be discontinued in favor of the touch pro.
AFAIK sprint (and another non-US carrier I think maybe?) are the only ones to have ever unlocked the GPS in the phone. The only thing that realistically may happen is that you may be able to hack in the same AGPS server that the pro/diamond will use (if they even set one up for them) to enable this somehow through some hacking.
To the OP cheers for figuring this out, but I can't imagine this would be very popular. Even among those non-sprint users this seems like a very significant undertaking and even without the serious modifications involved, it would probably be easier to just carry around a nice external BT GPS than to carry around an external antenna. They are dirt cheap anyways and you can get a nice SiRF III GPS for <$50 that will lock very nicely and quickly and doesn't have to be attached to your phone (and also won't void your warranty/TEP).