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Originally Posted by DavidIQ
It's a little shady really for some of those posters to say that after a while it loses GPS connectivity. The Mogul does the same thing if it doesn't have a clear line of sight to the sky. I've experienced this with my wife's Mogul and if I'm in a car the GPS connection is either crappy or it loses it's position fix if I don't have the phone on the dash or have the phone in my hand sticking out the window. Now if you tell me that you're walking in the middle of a park and you lose GPS connectivity then that's a different story...
Needless to say GPS will need a little bit of the network to get the time but I wonder if that's even necessary...if the network is available it should probably switch to the phone's time if it's that important.
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Shady? The 800w loses signal even walking in the middle of the park in a few minutes. GPS does not need network to get the time. My handheld GPS has a bigger screen, a nice processor, windows CE, map licenses and routing software and it cost $100. It gets a signal in ten seconds with no network contact.
I dont know why I would or should carry it anymore than I would carry a dedicated mp3 player if I purchased an expensive handset promoting standalone GPS.