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Old 09-17-2008, 09:05 PM
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Re: Official 800w GPS discussion

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Originally Posted by DavidIQ View Post
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.
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.
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